Anxiety
As a person who has anxiety, it is very hard to explain how it feels to someone who doesn’t experience anxiety. Small comments made to a person who has anxiety, harmful intent or not, can seriously injure their self respect and self esteem. This short film was inspired by myself and some family members of mine who go through this on the daily. I really just wanted to capture how a person who think they might be helping in their mind, could be doing some serious damage to the person instead. You never know what is going on in someone’s head, truth is, they are probably harder on themselves than anyone else in the world.
This was an especially hard project to create just because this was created during Covid-19. Class was online mostly for this course except when we were learning how to use some equipment provided by DMACC. I think in total we had maybe 7-8 in person classes to learn as much as we could with our equipment. Not only was it hard to learn everything having no experience before this with script writing to operating cameras and sound equipment, it was hard trying to find people to act in this film so I want to thank my friends and my mom for helping me out. Read more below about the actors.
Samantha Martin
Samantha Martin, (“Lola” the character who experiences anxiety) goes to Iowa University double majoring in pre-med and musical performance. She has acted in musicals in high school so its obvs she is a natural. I want to give her a special thank you for tackling this main role, without her I literally would have failed my video production class and couldn’t have made this short film. So thank you so much Sami!
Chris Burg
Chris (played as the mother) is my mom, she works remote for Wells Fargo currently due to Covid. Another special thank you to my mom, I literally couldn’t have done this without you. Thank you for playing this role, I know it was hard but I appreciate it a lot. (She is not like the mom in the video I swear)
Zack Martin & Caleigh Rosenbaulm
And last but definitely not least, Zack and Caleigh. Zack is currently a high school student, and Caleigh goes to Iowa State University for Computer Science. Thank you guys so much for being a part of this production, it means a lot to me that you were able to help me out. It may not have seemed like much but I appreciated you guys being in this short film.