Introducing me

 My name is Wren Ruby. I am in 11th grade and go to Fort Lauderdale Highschool. I am half way through school and my Media Studies class. I did 2 projects this year. The commercial, and the music video. I have learned a lot of knowledge on filming so far. The music video project was the most useful to gain practice. I somewhat enjoy filming, it is very repetitive and detail oriented. It is exciting to see the finished product. We have done a few practice essays in class to practice for the end of the year. I definitely want to do more to get more practice.  We are about to start or final task in class. It is a short film. I am excited to start the final task and figure out my plot. I have to make a storyboard and a script. I
feel like making the script would be the hardest part. I am exciting to learn more about the filming process, especially during this project because it is the biggest one.  I am not sure what theme I want yet. I think a mystery/dark theme would be cool. I am excited to see how this turns out.

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