Drift Assessment 1

Two Situations aggravated me throughout Drift 1 or 2. The first was the waste of money and time. I feel guilty that I have used my parent’s money wastefully by taking this class, gaining nothing from it that I will use in my endeavor to become a Hollywood style film maker. If I could I would use litigation to resolve the problem and claim the school’s film program fraudulent. The least I can say is that I feel I have been misled. This class is not only a waste of my money and valuable time, but the school policies are laughable. Do you know how ridiculous it is for me as film major, paying money to attend a film school, to say that at any given moment I do not have access to the proper equipment? How can a painter create without a brush? What if I had an internship opportunity and needed the school equipment for, or what if I wanted to begin filming an independent film while still in school? What am I paying this school money for? Does this school even have its student's interests at heart? Do the production students’ alone pay for the upkeep and management of the film department’s equipment room? I am under the impression that all students pay for it in the form of an added cost in their school tuition. If this is true then every student should have the right to access it. I am disgusted by a single project that was stretched throughout a semester of time for no other reason I can see other than to suck up more money that could have been used for other more important fundamental classes. In my opinion this class should not be required.

The second thing that aggravated me is that in no way did these project’s contribute to my knowledge as a film maker, in the context that I am attempting to engage in the Hollywood style of film making. I have only learned very crude methods and programs that aren’t even used in that school of production, none of which are applicable to the person I am trying to become. I am extremely disappointed in this class’s content and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee film program as a whole thus far.