Quinn Agnew, BFA Film and Media Arts, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, https://fmx298.santiago.bz/qagnew/

There is no such thing as perfection, everyone has strengths and weaknesses.  My strengths lie in writing.  I have always been a writer specializing in fiction.  I believe that this has given me an edge in writing. I am also good with coming up with concepts that my prior writing skills also help out with.  I love details, physical details, details of a setting, a location, an action.  Writing and envisioning these details is how I write.  Another one of my strengths lies in my voice.  My father is an avid barbershopper, a specific style of acapella, and has been in many barbershop quartets and choirs throughout my life.  Due to this, I have been singing for most of my life.  This experience and training that I have received from singing has helped develop my voice for voice acting.

My weaknesses in regards to my cinematic filmmaking would have to be time management.  I have a very bad time with managing my time and remember making these projects how badly I procrastinated on some of them.  I have always had an active mind. Another weakness I have is directing.  When I do have ideas and a vision I have trouble communicating them.  Is funny, I find it easy to come up with the words for a story but when it comes to communicating that vision to a crew my mind struggles to find the words to describe my vision.

There are two aspects of my education thus far that have brought me to where I am right now.  Intro to sound Image and Motion and Intro to scriptwriting.  The intro to sound image and motion class I took gave me a well-rounded look at narrative, documentary, and experimental filmmaking.  By giving me a taste of all three I have a good base understanding of them.  But, more importantly, it introduced me to friends in the film department.  Before that class, I was generally isolated from the film department, but it was in that class that I was able to make friends and collaborators.  Intro to script writing has helped me develop my writing for screenplays which is a form of writing that I have not been fully used to. 

Once I graduate I want to move out of Florida.  I’ve been in Florida for so long that I am a little sick of all the palm trees.  Looking for a new location and area to live in after collage to further my career is not going to be easy, but It’s something I want to do. I see my life going in two ways, I either get a job in video editing or pursue a career in voice acting.  At some point before graduating I must commit to one of these paths. I think it is important to learn everything I can about film productions and I am ready to learn more from UT.