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...hear Duncan A. Johnson ’05 tell it, it was an imaginary dinosaur that convinced him he wanted to spend his life making movies...
...Johnson bought a camcorder, assembled his friends, and never looked back. He came to Harvard intent on studying film production; he would have chosen another school if Harvard hadn’t had the VES department...
Rather than cutting straight to filmmaking, Johnson spent his first year studying photography. He describes the “terribly rude awakening” of laying out all his semester’s photographs in front of his professor, only to have the professor trash every last one of them. Johnson went back to work, taking a thousand photographs over the last three weeks of the semester and ending up with ten he considered usable...
...Johnson demonstrated that newfound dedication his junior year, when he wrote, shot, and edited a fifteen-minute film, “Junior Achiever,” the work of which he is most proud. “Last year was such a positive experience,” he says. “I was very happy with my film, very proud of it, and I got a very good reception...
...only a handful of film production concentrators, Johnson relished the opportunity to work closely with faculty members like former Visiting Professor in the VES department Hal Hartley, who taught Johnson to conquer his instinct to over-think his filmmaking, an instinct he calls the “smart-guy, Harvard syndrome...