Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back. Sorry again for taking so long between posts, but I plan on getting back to my roots of that neon-colored stapled newsletter and bringing some more rants to the masses.
Yesterday I came across a documentary called “Don’t You Forget About Me.” This was a documentary made about the impact of John Huhges teen movies in the 80s by four canadian “filmmakers” (and I use that term loosely) who set out to find and speak to the great John Hughes and fail miserably. While I watched this documentary and enjoyed most of it, I found myself noticing how the four producers must have been film kids in college. Certain traits just pop out. As a TV kid (a television-radio major) often times we get lumped in with film kids, and often times we take exception to it. It’s not that I have anything against film kids, I have some good friends who are film kids, it’s just that film kids and tv kids are quite different. (How many times did I say kid in that sentence? I was aiming for five) In my opinion (again, this is probably a tad biased, and all film kids please do not take offense), film majors seem to be more pretentious, more “filmy” (if that makes sense) and with an unwarranted sense of superiority. For some reason film kids seem to look down on the tv kids as not as serious and think the work they produce is better. In some cases sure, but I know that this semester, tv kids produced some great work (Check out Almost College, seriously, you will not regret it…ictv.org/Almostcollege)….This leads me back to my thesis that film kids are just a little more out there, and a little pretentious in the way they carry themselves and approach their work. Often times over my years in Park I have turned to a fellow TV student and said “I’m so glad I’m not a film kid.” And I am. I think that TV and FIlm kids are inherently different. We are more understated in our creativity and love of entertainment. We are more down to earth, we approach things differently, and maybe, just maybe, do not take it AS seriously. You can walk through park and see a film kid and KNOW he or she is a film kid. They just have that way about them. It’s just the way it is. Maybe I have just been around Park too much this semester. Who knows. Either way, Happy new year to all TV kids, all film kids, and everyone in general.
