For this year’s eminent person project, I wasn’t able to get an interview.

I had sent five separate emails out to teachers, Dana Terrace herself, close friends of Dana Terrace, and other animators. Despite my efforts, I never got a reply. Looking back now, I think that I may have been a little too ambitious with the people I had emailed.

Ms. Wasstrom had told us to at least shoot our shots and send an email out to our eminent people themselves, so I started with sending out an email to Dana Terrace. I waited a few days after this and hadn’t gotten a reply, so I had sent out an email to Dana Terrace’s significant other, Alex Hirsche. A couple days after this, although this may have been a little too ambitious, I sent out an email to Matt Braly, who is another well-known animator. Because I hadn’t gotten any replies after about a week, I decided to tone it down a little and sent out an email to Rachel Kim who is a lesser known animator who works for Disney. I hadn’t actually known very much about Ms. Kim because her email was given to me by a peer who said that she might give me a reply. In the end, she didn’t reply, so near the end, I had sent out my last email to Mr. Linburg, the animation teacher here at Gleneagle, in hopes that I could at least know his opinion as an animator about Dana Terrace and her situation/accomplishments.

By the end of the project, I never got an interview, but there isn’t anything that I regret about it. I was still able to accomplish what I wanted and succeed in completing my project. I was actually able to find an interview that someone else did with Dana Terrace online and got more information from there. If I were to redo my project, I wouldn’t change anything, as the factors that lead me to not having an interview were out of my control, and although I didn’t get an interview, I am proud of myself with the end result I achieved.