Over the years leading up to my enrollment into graduate school, my process of film and
video capture, what I called “filmmaking,” consisted of largely improvisational
experiments with my camera and a group of actors.
I continued this method of making all the way up to my fifth quarter review, at which a
radical shift in my making occu
rred. It was suggested to me by my committee that I
change the way I think about my work, which resulted in a whole new way of making my
work. This new process involved pre-production, as well as taking the proper time to edit
my footage, particularly in the stage of studying the raw clips to allow them to reveal
what they are to me.
This shift caused me to drastically change the way I look at my work. I abandoned trying
to force the work into what I thought it was, and have begun looking at what the work
really is.