Yesterday, on Thursday, February 13, 2014, my group and I were filming. We were filming by our Director's home. I saw a man carrying a trophy and I didn't think about it, all of a sudden he said, "I saw you guys filming and I just wanted to give you this award for your handwork." I was confused, why would this man come up to us and give us an award? Well he wanted to show us the award and motivate us to continue working on filmmaking, to be in the part of the industry. He just turned 82 years old in Wednesday. And on Tuesday, his wife saw us and she told him to go introduce himself and talk to us but sadly some gardeners came and started working and my group and I had to leave. He also told us, how he had spent at least thirty years working in the film industry, as a cinematographer, and he won five Emmy Awards and eventually now and then he still films. My group and I were pretty shocked that and Emmy Award winner was here, living in the valley, not in L.A.
They're not Academy Awards but they are still awards. He let us carry his award and take a picture of it. He told us to go to a website called ASC: The American Society of Cinematographers (www.theasc.com).
This experience was just wow. Never in my life did I ever imagine that I was going to meet an Emmy Award winner here in the valley. Maybe this doesn't have to do with the Academy but it kind of does. It gets you thinking of one's future. This has to do a lot with the Academy, maybe it doesn't talk about the news that's going on but it made me think. What if I, and the rest of us, continue pursuing for a career that is in the film industry, will we also win Awards? Will we live in an expensive, luxurious homes or will we live in a small, comfortable home, here in the valley or in a suburban area. I guess eventually decide what we want and what we don't want.
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