My First Post

Well before I jump right into making posts, I should probably make a little blog entry about myself and what I would like to do here.
My name is Leah Niecgorski. I am 21 years old and a senior at a small school in Erie, PA. I am majoring in Communications. With a degree in Communications, I would really love to explore the film industry. Ever since I can remember I have wanted to be involved with movies. In 1997 I watched Scream and instantly became obsessed with the horror genre. With a childhood friend I started researching how to make fake glass, wounds and blood on the internet. For months after that I would pretend murder myself every day right in time for my mom to get home and find me lying on the floor covered in corn syrup and food dye. Within a few years I began writing short scary stories, making silly videos with friends and saving up for a video camera. Finally when I was a junior in high school I got a JVC Mini DV camera for Christmas. Once I got the camera I took almost every opportunity I had for extra credit or an independent project to make a short film. Often times I would write, act, film and edit the videos and I loved every part of the process. I made four films my senior year of High School. One of them, a good-bye/tribute to all of the graduating seniors, even brought a lot of my fellow class mates to tears.
In college so far I have taken a few production courses. I have made three music videos but I only have two of them left after a computer eating virus. One of them was for a New Media class and it is a parody of the song “I’m on a Boat” by The Lonely Island and the other one left is a silly video I made as a freshman to the song “Hustlin” by Rick Ross. Both of these videos were put together poorly so I will only post them if any of you followers out there really really want to see them. The other music video, which was definitely my best, was to “You Won’t Know” by Brand New, and it was a training type video. I was really happy with it but then a Trojan Horse happened to find its way into my hard-drive and crash it. Luckily I was able to save one other video from my college coursework. This short video is a trailer to short film I was attempting to make about a girl and her bizarre dreams. Due to time restrictions from my actors and the awful ten week term, the film was never completed but here is one minute and thirty seconds of a pretty fun trailer. I hope you enjoy!




Oh yeah I almost forgot to say what I am going to do with the blog! So I have made all types of little film projects before and now for a class project I am faced with the task of making a thirty minute documentary about the Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center, more commonly known as the PAC at Mercyhurst College. For the project I will be teaming up with six class mates and we have until May 18th to complete it. Please follow me on this blog as I juggle the life of a senior student athlete, while I try to make a thirty minute entertaining documentary on a Performing Arts Center.

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