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Since I was very young, watching movies has always been one of my favorite things to do, so it seemed only right to conclude my educational career with a project that honored my love for film. I have seen in recent years the turn the film industry has taken to recycling existing ideas into what they deem ‘new’ content and I thought it important to gauge how members of my generation feel about this. Current audiences, from casual viewers to self-proclaimed ‘film buffs’, are being served a slew of remakes, adaptations, and sequels so as to cushion the bottom lines of big studios. The cost of these decisions though? There has been a severe and obvious, at least to me, lack of creativity and new ideas on the big screen.
This topic is important to me as well as to the industry as a whole. Each year, new professionals enter the film world and it is feedback like that collected from this research that could help inform their process and decisions. During the course of my senior year, I had the opportunity to research the phenomenon of recycled ideas, its causes and consequences, and conduct a survey collecting feedback on how members of my generation feel about this occurrence. New ideas are out there, they are just waiting for someone to care about them.
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