Someone who had influenced my life

Chelsey Shin
English 3
Paul Kang
June 15th 2007
World Count: 250
Influence in my life
Word Count: 457

When I first got in to 9th grade, my computer class teacher suggested that she will pick four students to learn about film studies from the professional director who was widely known in India. I worked very hard to get in to the four by creating a short flash and advertisement of our school. The teacher had chosen I to be the one of four by introducing, who represented our school. He was a Bollywood director, who had created more than fifty films to get trained in film and media field. At that time, I did not have any concept of Bollywood or studies in filmmaking were but I enjoyed watching movies. I barely watched the director’s face because he looked so scary when we first encountered. I remember him asking me a question, “You are the only girl in this group. Can you able to cooperate and survive in the team?” I wanted to give up for the first time but I wanted to challenge myself and show him the girl power that I can do better than anyone else in the group to prove he was wrong.
After several days of training, he gave us a project to complete. It was the first short movie that I have ever created in my whole life. The story was about an American boy who visits India during his vacation and feels the cultural differences between two countries, United States and India. He gave me to work as an editor. I felt very discouraged because I thought editor always sat in front of the machine and do nothing on the actual shooting place. I went to the director and asked to change my position. However, he explained that being an editor needed many skills in every area such as camera angles, scenes, synopsis, lights and songs that was part of the movie, which I were all familiar with. Since I was in the school orchestra, I had the sense of choosing the music for the right scene and taking videos or cameras were my hobbies from very young. After he convinced me, I put so much effort as an editor. Editing process took about two days. Even though the movie was not really perfect, we all enjoyed and were satisfied because of the time and sweat that were added to our first ever movie.
Our computer teacher had released the short movie to our school and we even sold the DVD to our friends, teachers and parents. The money we got from it was sent to help orphans and elders who were suffering from poverty. Ever since I got that training from the director, I was sure that I wanted to study more about media and mass communication.