For those of you who don’t know, I started a film club at Phil-Mont Christian Academy (my alma mater) and we have had four meetings thus far. Well at our first meeting I had two students show up and a couple more telling me that they would show up eventually. Several teachers their told me, “Three or four should be your expectation. And, at least to starting out, you really wouldn’t want too much more than that anyway.”

Only four meetings later (two meetings per week), we have ten students attending!

As much as the sudden growth threw me, I’ve been really encouraged by it.

Now where does pizza come in you ask?

Today, at our fourth meeting, I was able to get pizza ordered for our club meeting. They were going to be missing out on lunch for this meeting, so I wanted to make it worth their while. Now, I have to tell you, we were only discussing script writing today as well as trying to write our own script for a short video idea we had discussed earlier. Script writing is a tedious task and usually the low part of any film making overview. But, our club was having so much fun with it, students who weren’t a part of the club were approaching us asking, “Hey, what’s this party for?” From listening to our discussion a student stepped in and asked, “Can I join this?”

Now that is how you discuss scripts!

-a very encouraged Arel