Directing: "Teen Drama High" Short

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My favorite guilty pleasure is teen drama. Shows like Pretty Little Liars, Gossip Girl, and Vampire Diaries, to name a few, have captivated my attention for years. This was my final project for my Directing Actors/Acting for the Camera class, which was incidentally the class that inspired me to pursue acting, and every stage of this film was a blast. The idea came from my own personal experience of attempting to cut back into a show too late, and therefore missing every single reference made by the over-dramatic characters in it. Then I thought, "What if that happened to the main character?" Directing this was a joy, mostly because the actors got to just let themselves go as far as they wanted, and watching it over again in class was the highlight of my semester.