Voices that Inspire

What inspires you from WFSU Public Media? Here's this week's Voices That Inspire. My name's Rob Braddock and I'm the Dean of the College Motion Picture Arts here at FSU. There's something about filmmaking in the process. It's an apprenticeship business. So when you go into it, you always work with the master or you work with someone who knows their craft or their art. And you learn your craft and your art from them. There's an inherent element of teaching that's just in the process of making movies. And it's sort of that intellectual curiosity about building something. It's always different. It's a different story. It's a different place. So it always feels very much like what it's like to be in a classroom when you're trying to talk about story or making films. But I just love that process. You tend to learn a lot as a teacher. You get reinvigorated about why it is that you love what you do. And it's just been something that I really wanted to figure out how I make that pattern work. How I could teach and how I could work in the business and go back and forth. If I was going to give advice to a young person looking to make movies or tell stories visually, I would say first and foremost, tell those stories anyway you can, but just start making them. And you have a phone and it's basically a movie theater inside that little smartphone. Use it. Tell a story with that. Put it up. Get some people to tell you what they think and then make another one and make another one and make another one. That's all we do at film school basically is we just make a movie and then we make another one and then we make another one. And through that process it becomes part of you and you start to learn sort of instinctively what works. What keeps me engaged is just the same thing that always kept me engaged in just making a movie in general. It's a challenge. Filmmaking of the other day is nothing more than problem solving. And so putting the film school forward and solving the next problem and solving the next technological problem, finding out what the next storytelling technique is going to be and how that's going to reach audiences. That's just, it's interesting to me. My name is Rev Braddock and I'm the Dean of the College Motion Picture Arts here at FSU. You're listening to voices that inspire.