(image information: personal picture taken by Roberta Luton)
Hello, I am Ben Luton and am looking forward to be working with all of you in this class. I am a sixth year undergraduate student and a senior this year. I am majoring in Broadcast and Electronic Media with emphasis in video production. I have discovered what I truly want to do over my six years in college though, acting.
I have loved movies all of my life and it has been a dream of mine to be a professional actor for camera. Currently, I have been taking classes with Daryl Cox at the Actor Factory and have loved them. My favorite actor is Denzel Washington. Denzel absolutely performed at his peak in his movie Training Day. He played a crooked cop that got what he had coming to him by a rookie that he intended to weed out that day. If you have not seen it, I highly recommend it. Outside of acting, I am doing what I have to so I can head to LA in May.
Currently, I work for the OU football team and am a student videographer. I film every single practice and game then edit all the footage together so it can be distributed to coaches and players. I love my job and it pays the bills. So, this allows me to hone my video production and acting skills simultaneously throughout the year. I have worked hard to get where I am today.
Before I came to OU I was first a freshmen at Friends University in Wichita, KS. I majored in Religion and Philosophy and decided after a while that it was not for me. Next, I transferred to OSU. I know that must be hard to believe, but trust me I was only doing what I thought I needed to! OSU has the number two school in the nation for marriage and family therapy school and that is what I thought I wanted to do. After two internships, I knew I did not want to do that the rest of my life. So, I finally found my college-resting place. I will graduate from the one and only University of Oklahoma.
