Rush Bio 1; Response

1) What are you doing at Cornish?  (What's your emphasis--not just your major, but your specific track and your particular interest?)

A) I'm am attending Cornish as a Musical Theatre major. I hope to someday become a successful actor in both film and on stage. Hopefully doing work on broadway, and studying abroad. My back-up plan, though I hopefully wont need one,  is to become a theatre teacher somewhere to share this art that has forever changed my life.

2) What's going on outside of Cornish? (Quite possibly nothing, if you're taking classes full time. But I'd be interested to hear about anything you've got going on in the way of work, family, hobbies, creative efforts related or unrelated to your studies at Cornish, etc.)

A) Not a whole lot to tell you the truth. I'm studying full time here taking a full 18 credits at Cornish. This semester i'm starting dance and private voice lessons, both are essential. I'm a big sports guy, love love love me some football and that starts this weekend, so that is very exciting!
 3) What's your background in film (if any)?  (Maybe you hate film and signed up simply because this course fits your schedule; maybe you're interested in film primarily as one more conduit for song and/or dance; maybe you're an avid film viewer or have taken other film courses; maybe you've been involved in film making in one way or another.)

A) I have no film experience as of yet! But hopefully someday I will gain some work there! I'm a big movie buff and I love watching and critiquing films and film actors. I've never taken any film class, much less regarding musical cinema, but I am very eager to start the course.

4) What are your hopes and/or expectations for this course? (Maybe you don't have any. Maybe you're hoping we watch a particular film, or discuss a particular technique or concept....)

A) I hope to learn a lot more about how camera work goes, whether that be a film a tv show or a music video.
5) What gram did you select from the Madonna video, and in light of my recent blog posts, how do you see your gram recurring in the Buffy episode we watched in class?

A) I selected the backwards stop sign that was depicted as Madonna drove into the studio parking lot, and it read backwards as POTS. Then in watching buffy there were multiple stop signs along the roads in the city scenes as they were walking down the sidewalk and singing, these all read STOP.