Why I Chose To Study Italy Essay

While I’m aware that, unless I move back to Italy, I will be working a job in the American culture. I believe that my experience in Italy will help me be more relaxed in the job hunting process and know what I want in a potential employer. I don’t want to go through the entirety of my career as a stressed out robot, I learned that I prefer a more laid back environment where I can have a creative opinion. Although I may have to work my way up to having a say in the creative works of my future company, at least I know where I want to end up. Italy also taught me not to put too much on my plate, unless it’s my dinner plate. It also would be nice to try to incorporate the Italian lifestyle into my future job by getting together with my coworkers

This showed me that I would prefer directing or another aspect of media production other than being a camera person. Although I didn’t enjoy the fast-paced responsibilities of filming, I did find a passion for photography and finding perspectives that others may not notice. Both my internship and my travels around Europe on the weekends contributed to me discovering this passion. I travelled to Barcelona, Paris, Krakow, Prague, Dublin, Galway, and many different cities in Italy, and in each of these cities I found myself trying to capture as much as possible and snapping photos that I loved. I think my background as a film major helped me in capturing the perspective and essence of each place I visited. In film class we learned a lot about studying each shot of the film and the way it is framed. The mise-en-scene was an important aspect of discovering more about the film you watched. Mise-en-scene is everything that you see in a shot of a film, from the objects to the angle. What you see in a shot can have a lot to do with the emotion that viewers will feel from it. In all reality a film is like a bunch of pictures compressed together and put in motion that is made to make people walk away feeling a certain emotion. I found

When I first found out that I had been approved to intern abroad in Italy, I was very excited and couldn’t wait to tell my family and friends. But a few days later it hit me that I would be traveling to a country where I knew no one, all by myself. Not to mention the fact that I was already scared of planes. But after talking it out with my mom I realized that not everyone gets the chance to live in a different country and gain the experience of working abroad. I remembered when I first found out that I was accepted to Salisbury and the fear that I had in moving to a city on my own where I knew no one. I took the chance and moved in with three strangers who I now call my friends, taking the risk paid off big time and I knew that taking a bigger risk in a foreign country had the chance of paying off even more. Throughout my classes in Salisbury I slowly learned that taking chances in my projects and papers seemed to work out better than playing it safe. I also learned to be more independent in both life and in my classes. I found myself feeling more comfortable raising my hand and sharing my opinions, which is something I had rarely felt confident enough to do throughout high school and community college. I saw growth in my participation specifically in the three classes I took with professor Burton and