Semester wrap-up!!!!

I really enjoyed the screening party on Wednesday night. Everyone had some great projects, and it looked like everyone had put 100% into all of the film projects. The installation pieces were a lot of fun. The painting piece was interesting because it was rather interactive and everyone got a chance to put their mark on the canvas. I was rellay pleased with the way that our installation came out as well. It was a great improvisational mixture of technology and nature and I felt like this piece really described the way that I feel about life. I am constantly struggling with technology, always wanting to escape it somehow to return to what human beings once knew before it came about. To show that even if technology fails us one day, we will always have the trees and the animals to fall back on for entertainment purposes. The funny thing is that everyone got to do something that they wanted....Even though I was the director, i wanted everyone to feel comfortable doing what they do best, and it worked, because James got to play his guitar, Wayne got to mess around with his DM2 mixer, Amir got to read his powerful poetry and Oliver and I got to perform a piece. You know, sometimes improvisation just works better. I don't think that this project would have been as effective if it had been anymore structured or planned. It felt very mystifying. I look forward to working with everyone on some future projects. I must say that this class was my favorite at UNCW. I don't really think that the school knows what kind of good things are coming out of the film studies department these days, although they will soon know, and then everyone will want to be a film studies major.