My Love of Media

              Hello everyone! My name is Alyssa Neece, and I'm a junior in New Media, with a concentration in Video and Motion Media. This self-portrait describes a portion of what I love to do with media. While I really enjoy most of the aspects that go into a video project, my favorite aspect of the whole endeavor is building the relationship between sound and visual. In other words, I write and record music with the cinematic images in mind, and vise versa. Some people get really excited about a story, others get excited about the editing...I get excited about the cinematography and music. But all in all, creating something beautiful from scratch, and watching a video project progress (in every aspect) is always a very exciting endeavor to me.
            I'm pretty indecisive, so I can't say I have an absolute favorite movie or TV show. But my favorite genre, and the genre that I care to work with in the future, is action/adventure. I enjoy the look and feel of movies like Lord of the Rings, Divergent, Hunger Games, World War Z, etc.
            If I could make any media without restrictions, it would be an action/adventure feature film. I have a storyline already that I'd love to hire a screenwriter to develop (if that's how that works? I don't know yet haha).
            After graduation is quite the intimidating thing to think about. I certainly have the goal to make that feature film I mentioned in the previous paragraph someday (or other feature films for that matter). But really, I'll just keep writing, filming, editing - repeat. I hope to find some sort of media related job to pay the bills. It'd be great to start my own production company someday, but I plan to just enjoy the journey of getting there. I'm in no rush to get through this thing we call "life."
            I think it's pretty obvious by now why I'm interested in media. I absolutely love the process of the whole endeavor. Getting to create a world out of thin air, manipulating light and movement and sound to stir emotions, working with a team with multiple different perspectives to create a bigger picture out of a simple idea...I just love it.