I am a travel
deprived Asian-American girl, well that’s what my one of my friends described
me as. Ever since I could remember I have always yearned to travel. The need to
see the world stemmed CSI Miami. This show depicted a tropical paradise that
was riddled with crime and it touched the deepest parts of my
curiosity. My curiosity grew and soon turned to love. Every breathing moment
that wasn’t spent in school, I had spent watching every crime show that grazed
my sad little public TV box. I had used these crime shows to take me around the world.Thank god for streaming nowadays.
Do you feel
something special when you listen to your favorite music artist? How about when
watching your favorite TV show? There is an emotional attachment that we make
with art. For me that emotional bond is with characters in TV shows and with
a DJ's choice in beat. When characters in a show perish, my heart aches,
"Why is that?" I wondered. What causes this physical-emotional
response for a fictional character? Ever since I started catching all these
feelings for people that could never exist outside of a TV screen I have
wondered about these questions.
I took my first film
class in high school taught by my favorite English teacher, Mr. Daszenski. That
is where I was first exposed to film as a profession, as an art form, and as a
science. These shows were no longer a string of perfectly narrated episodes that I
watched on television each night. I realized each detailed cut from scene to
scene was a choice, and was made for extracting an exact response from the
audience. That is what I want to achieve, at least that is what I hope to achieve one day. I want to create stories that leave
the audience hanging on for just one more episode. And for that wanderlust that
still yearns to travel; I want to bring the world to those who are not fortune
enough to travel and see with it their own eyes.
~ Stephanie Z.
