Rough Cut Guest Speaker of the Month

Trevor Ward

Screening

I Met With An Accident

Filmmaker Trevor Ward stopped by Thursday, June 17th, for a special privet screening of I Met With An Accident. Afterwards he stayed for a Q&A about the film. Below are a few highlights from the Q&A.

Q: How long were you in India?

Trevor- It took 4 years, going from America to India, to complete the filming.

Q: How big was your crew?

Trevor- It was just me and my camera.

Q: Did you employ any "Michael Moore" style tactics of manipulation?

Trevor- I had an idea of the story I wanted to tell, but when it came to filming I didn't have an agenda.

"I loved this project, and it was like mining for gold."

"I never manipulated him (Benedict), I always asked, can I?"

Thanks again to Trevor Ward for coming to Ai and Screening his film for Rough Cut. The picture was great and having the experience to pick a unique filmmaker's mind was a rare opportunity.

Member of the Month-June 2010-Tyler Holland

I recently sat down with newly elected Rough Cut president, Matt Jimenez, and discussed the future of the club. Among many exciting plans Matt has for Rough Cut, he is perhaps most excited about the addition of a monthly article for this blog, which highlights one member who has gone above and beyond his or her expectations. This honor will be given to club members based on their participation in club events, and overall positive presence within Rough Cut. When the topic of who might be honored first was brought up, there was no discussion needed.

Rough Cut Member of the Month

Tyler Holland

by Robert S. Pearson

Matt Jimenez-

I've worked with Tyler pretty early on in the film course. The guy has a great attitude and has always been there for me in whatever help I need for projects, or class work. He's contributed a lot to Rough Cut, through promotions, supporting me, the club and the addition of his unusual humor makes things that much more fun.

Ben Hammond-

The first time I met Tyler I was in Fundamentals of Video Production. Right away we hit it off as both friends and filmmakers. I directed a project we did for class and Tyler was the camera operator. His camera work was amazing and I gave him the name "The Human Tripod". Ever since then we have worked on a lot of projects together and I don't see it slowing down anytime soon. Tyler is one of those people who brings a good attitude to any project and works really hard to make it the best. He is now one of my best friends and also one of the more respected filmmakers at school.

MFS Junne 10 Matt Jimenez

Monthly Filmmaker Spotlight

June 2010

Matt Jimenez

By Robert S. Pearson

I met Matt in my 4th quarter at Ai, and I could tell right away that he was an easy going guy with a desire to learn. Matt has worked on all the projects I have headed outside of school, as well as most of my projects for class. He is a valuable asset to any set, and his positive reputation recently won him the title of Ai Tampa Rough Cut President. I am proud of Matt and how far he's come in the last few years, so I thought who better to invite into the Spotlight than Matt Jimenez. As with all the filmmaker Spotlights, I started by asking Matt, why film?

Matt-

For the longest time I was just kind of floating by, writing, drawing, acting, and even photography. I considered them more of hobbies at the time, but then there was a situation where I might not be able to do any of those things at all and stuck working at a job I hate. I felt like I was wilting, I decided to combine all of the art I love to do and go to school. I'm very visual, I have ideas, pictures, and entire movies in my head that I want to see come to life on the screen.

With such a diverse group of interests, I asked Matt about some of his influences outside of filmmaking.

Matt-

My biggest influence has always been my family, they have always supported me. I've never really run into the problems of people telling me I couldn't do want I want or not supporting me, I'm very fortunate to be surrounded by people who support me and want me to be successful and happy.

One of my favorite questions is alway, who are some of your favorite filmmakers?

Favorite Filmmakers

With inspiration coming from filmmakers that tell such colorful stories, I asked Matt about his over all goal as a filmmaker.

Matt-

My over goal as a filmmaker is do make my ideas comes to life and hopefully be successful and happy at it whether through directing, writing or whatever means to make that happen. I want to work on big movie sets and work my way up to the top learning and gaining as much experience as I can.

Next I asked Matt about his favorite films.

Favorite Movies

I was curious what Matt's plans for the future are.

Matt-

My plans are to see Rough Cut grow and expand. I want to see all film students become excited and to use Rough Cut as a useful resource for meeting other filmmakers, learning about the industry, finding what they are best at and what they want to do. At the very least to just be apart of something.

Special Thanks

Matt-

Special thanks to Johanna Jimenez (my mother), Robert S. Pearson, Tyler Holland, Ben Hammond and Tom Hammond for all their support and encouragement.

I want to thanks Matt for stepping into the Spotlight and congratulate him again on being elected Rough Cut president.

Voting Results

Congratulations

Matt Jimenez


President
Summer- Fall Quarter 2010

Voting Results-

Presidential Nominee- Matthew Jimenez by 55%

Term Length- Two Quarters by 70%

Due Amount- $5.00 by 50%

Meetings- Bi-Weekly by 52%

Logo Choice by 40%

Thanks again to everyone who voted, both online and in person.

Internet Voting- 22% Campus Voting- 78%

Over the next few weeks Matt will choose club officers, schedule the next Rough Cut meeting, and be featured in this months Filmmaker Spotlight.

If any Rough Cut members have questions or recommendations for Matt, please send your message to the club email- airoughcuttampa@gmail.com