Filmaker's Statement Molly Rasberry

My filmmaking experiences for the most part are limited. I was a part of a film club at my high school and we mostly did contest entries for awareness shorts. I came up with an idea for a don't text and drive short with don't text and bike. There had been a rise of irresponsible people texting while riding a bike on campus and on college campuses. We shot the short and I helped with being the assistant director and creative consultant. Another thing we did was a parody short for Star Wars. I was a creative consultant for the most part. The club only had about 10 people and only 5 people really participated. When I came to UNCW after transferring I joined Flicker Film society and have helped a bit on the Reel Teal film festival with coordinating and ideas. I hope to learn how to set up the film and create a cohesive narrative. Critics have said that editors are greater storytellers than cinematographers as they are the one's main goal is to show how the story is told and not how it looks. I would also love to work with different people and learn how to control my anxieties about working with so many people. I would also love to utilize my imagination and creative and help create shorts with different genres and different minds working on one project. In ten years, I hope to be interning with a production company or even working on indie projects that many struggling filmmakers are trying to make. On the side I would love to write about film and review films for a journalistic perspective. For something interesting, I have read Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow and loved it. I have also read both Anna Karenina and War and Peace all the way through.