Personal Narrative: My High School Sports Career

It was hard to decide my freshman philosophy statement but past experiences such as my high school sports career led me to select this specific claim of everybody having talent. The reason I chose this claim was because it spoke to me because It vastly related to myself and my high school sports career. I said in my philosophy, “It was Freshman year I sucked at everything and didn't play any sports”. Deemed untalented, I played Lacrosse for the first time and turned out to be decent. In addition to experience, sources from the internet structured the process of creating my project. For example, I had researched about the movie Sky High, which is about this kid who is told he's untalented by his gym teacher and some bullies however, he finds his talent. From there out on I had started to realise I wanted my
Project to be visual so I could therefore really represent the hatred given to the person when they are deemed untalented. In Sky High the main character is told he's untalented and he is driven to prove to his parents he has talent which in a way shortened the time it took for him to find his talent. His dad even said to him, “your a shame to this family”. This got me thinking Although, my claim hasn’t changed during this process however my thoughts have and I have now realised everybody has talent and they find that talent faster when people discourage them because they are so driven to prove they have talent.

I chose to express my thinking in a movie trailer so I would be able to give the audience of my project a visual representation of the discouragement and failure I the protaganist went through in my movie trailer.
I had first chosen to write a short story similar to my movie trailer, however I realised I would be able to express my thinking and ideas in a much greater way if it was in the form of a movie trailer. What made my project most effective was the voice over in the background which in a way narrated the movie trailer as it went on. Without this people would struggle to understand the movie trailer itself nonetheless the meaning of it. In addition to this another important element in my movie trailer was the music due to the fact that it shaped the movie trailer and conveyed the meaning I was trying to express . The music gave my movie trailer a mood that was sad as I the character failed to find something I was good at, however it created an upbeat and joyful mood when I had finally found my talent. It can be said then that the music in my movie trailer not only really helps give the movie trailer meaning, but it also grabs the viewer's
attention.

This project has made me explore my thought on how everybody has talent, but it has also made realise and learn a great amount of stuff about myself. For instance, I have realised when learning or writing about something you believe or love it is much easier to work on than something you hate and you find boring. I truly believe everyone has talent, therefore this project was fun and not teasing like other school projects. As well as this I have realise when expressing or conveying a meaning it is much easier to express it in something you are good at. For instance, I tried to write a short story but It felt wrong, So I then turned to making a movie trailer because that’s what I am best at doing.

I did not have many obstacles, one of the few that I faced was making it easy for my viewers to understand the meaning I was trying to convey and considering that my movie trailer is a minute long and had almost no dialogue this was a struggle. However, I got past this obstacle by as I explained before adding a voice over during the movie which narrated the story and benefited to conveying my message. This is a success for me because at the start of this project I set a goal of persisting in the face of obstacles

In addition to persisting in the face of obstacles, I demonstrates high levels of independence due to the fact that my teachers didn't know much about making movie trailers. I had to depend on myself and myself only. That is a example of a self directed and resourceful trait as well as my strategic time management and organization skills.I did not just go in head first into making a movie trailer, but I strategically planned it out and managed my team because there was a specific due date and I had to make it on time. Another thing I had accomplished was I had a active engagement with my mentors even including the in my movie. For example, as I explained before the voice over in my movie trailer was an important factor in the creation of the movie trailer, however It couldn’t of been done without my fellow mentor Daion who was a major benefit to this Movie trailer and I myself.