Week 01 – Career Aspirations

Coming into college as a Film and Media major, I wasn’t 100% sure of what I wanted to do, originally. The industry itself is very broad. Put myself out there and act or direct? Stay behind the scenes, out of sight? Over the past four years, I’ve tried a lot of different positions, all of which are very unique and require different skill sets. I think I’ve come to narrow it down to two: script writing and production design. I have a large passion for both. Taking the GSU partner classes with Georgia Film Academy helped me out a lot in deciding. That, as well as taking on student projects with some of my friends. I’m almost at the end of my college career, and I want to utilize this class to help me shape my portfolio for the future. It’s basically your lifeline in the industry, so it helps to be presentable and organized. I think learning to build my portfolio digitally and having it established will help out a lot when applying to future internships or jobs. Hopefully, it can be a networking point as well and I can trade portfolios with others in the class with similar career aspirations. Networking is something I find to be a challenge, so I’m aiming to improve at it over the course of the semester with the help of this class.