Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama: School of Drama alumnus Glenfield Payne (A 1990) visited students in a new class on television and filmmaking called Through The Lens on Monday, Sept. 25, to share his experiences working as a supervising sound editor and designer in film and television.
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Carnegie Mellon has an amazing reputation in the business, for sending out the best, so it's really exciting to hear that some of the best are coming back to spread the wealth. Although, I had never heard of Payne before this article, hearing about what he is doing now with his drama degree is really inspiring. In the article, they mention that he is working on film, which just proves that CMU trains for more than just drama, they train for all areas, and they train the best. Part of what makes the program what it is, is the alumni networking, and besides Payne, we also had Zachary Quinto show up and lead a master class, and I am sure there are others that I have not heard about that have come just within the past 5 weeks.
I had the privilege to listen to Glen talk in Through The Lens (as you can see by the back of my head in the picture on the article). He is a very interesting man and has done a lot of cool things in his career. I strive to be like him in the sense that he has always worked in the industry in some capacity. He gets to do what he loves everyday and he seems like he really enjoys it and has gotten the opportunity to move up in the industry and have more responsibility. With his higher position he does not get to do all the smaller tasks that he still enjoys, which comes with becoming a boss or a manager. You need to learn to delegate tasks and not have your hand in every project. That can be difficult for some people because I sometimes feel like something will not be exactly how I want it if I am not the one to do it. He needs to trust his team and be able to lead them in a way that the project ends up the way he wants it to.
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