As I found myself debating how I’d end my time at Freestyle, I had simultaneously pondered the person I was before it all started. When considering how to express myself at my most powerful, my most successful, I couldn’t stop thinking about the point where I was the opposite. My first film–Doble Arnis, a failure of an action movie. I think it’s a fairly common experience for filmmakers to hate their early work, and I can’t help but sympathize. However, I let that hate and disappointment turn into fear, fear that made me steer clear of the genre I had initially wanted to pursue. Doing a fight scene is a risk for me not because I had no experience with it, but because that experience was terrible. I had no aptitude for it. But now I know that skill and quality is something to be refined over time. In my film class, I had learned how to properly edit movement while working on my Senior Narrative Film. While it wasn’t was intense as a fight scene, it definitely helped me get a better feel for flow and tempo, which will probably carry over to editing action well. I also have a much better camerawork skills than I had a year ago, which I’ll definitely put to use when I film the fight scene.
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