Post 12

In one of the previous posts that I wrote I talked about how similar making a movie or even a music video in my TV Production class is to writing a creative nonfiction essay.  I remember when My friends and I were working on our 4500 competition video we had to write scenes, or at least have a basic idea of what we wanted to do.  When we finally pieced everything together it all made sense to us and my favorite part of the process was coming up with different shots to tell the same type of thing that a basic boring shot would do.  I think that is a huge component of what creating a creative nonfiction essay is.  When writing creative nonfiction it’s all about taking a boring story or something that has happened to you in your life and putting a different spin on it to make it seem more interesting or intriguing to your audience.  Just like how it was the hardest part of creating our videos, it is the hardest part of creating a creative nonfiction essay.  I figured with the background that I have with making movies and writing scenes I wouldn’t have as much trouble as I did with this class.  To me, it was much more difficult putting my thoughts and ideas down in a creative nonfiction story then it was in a script or storyboard.  I also talked to one of my friends about the same type of thing and she agreed with me.  She had a creative nonfiction class 2 years ago when she was a freshman and she thought it was the hardest type of writing she has ever had to do.  She was also in the TV Production class with me when I was a junior in high school and she was also part of the TV Club so she was just as involved in it as I was.  It made me feel better to know that I wasn’t the only one who struggled with this.  I know I have a lot more respect to people who do try to get into the writing business as a career.  It is one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do.  I am always critical of journalists and say “Oh, I could do such a better job of that” when in actuality I couldn’t.  It takes a lot to put your writing out for people to rip and critique and I know I don’t have whatever that is.