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Increasingly closer to the dreamed moment, the graduation. During the month of June, throughout the Thesis Production III class, we had the opportunity to collect the recorded and documented information from Murdercycle and work with it, to mold it and turn it into visual results of different durations and with the personal touch of each one of the members of the group, in this way, to reinforce our visual and audio editing skills, and also, to transmit a clear message to the audience. The obstacles to this point of the race have been innumerable, but at the same time they have become great and valuable lessons of which we have learned and I am sure, none of us, the students of this masters, will forget, much less to commit again. Several of the errors have been when it comes to saving information and even importing it into the editing programs, because when you do not have an adequate strategy for organizing and locating the files, a mess is difficult to understand. However, as I have always mentioned it during each post of the month and I repeat it once again here, without that kind of life lessons, getting to a workplace in the industry would not have the same value; Here in the classrooms, it is worthwhile to make mistakes and learn from them. The experience of our teachers and guides during the different stages of production have been key to bringing the project to life and gradually reaching the final goal, however, it is never without mentioning the tireless work of each member of the team, especially the Director Tyler Turner, who has been a light on the road and work of the other members. Thank you so much professor Rob for your guidance and for challenging us during this month.  

At the beginning of the program, during Mastery class, we had to write our vision or perspective for each class of the degree, trying to imagine or stablish a goal for every month. It is almost impossible to do not pass out with how complete is the program and the amount of opportunities we get while the time passes. For this month of class, I was expecting to learn basic camera operations and maybe creating a story which with we could practice the content learned, but it was way more than that. First of all, we learn in depth all the lighting principles, starting with the vocabulary used on set, passing through the gear and ending on calculating the amount of power we are able to use depending on the source, so even math was included. After the very first couple of weeks, where we got the change to practice by recreating a scene during class, we got the final assignment instructions where we could not even work with our classmates (networking and getting to know each other), but also letting our imagination just fly. Anything could be done, no matter how crazy or difficult could sound, professor JP helped us to nail each of our ideas and bring them to reality. During the very last week, post-production was a must do. We had the chance to present twice work in front of the class (first draft and fine cut) to get feedback from our mentor and our classmates, and of course to listen to different ideas and suggestions on how to drive our ideas to the next level. It has been an amazing month with so many emotions and teachings. Experimental Filmmaking did not just give us assignments to fulfil, but also gave us real life experience in both terms, professional life and personal life. The latter because we had the challenge to work with our classmates and no matter our differences, make it work until the end. I want to thank Mr. JP for his patience and guidance, as well as my colleague Marina Capretti for being part of this amazing project.

Ready to graduate from Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry #masters #mfa #filmmfa