When finally arriving to senior year, the year that would conclude everything and send each student out to venture in their continuing journeys as filmmakers, the students would more or less undergo the same process from junior year. One year, one film, numerous script re-writes, casting, location scouting, countless hours editing, reshooting- all of it was done again as the same process as before, but with one huge difference: they knew what they were doing this time. Senior year was the chance to make things right and learn from mistakes made on their junior films; whether big or small, senior year enabled students to overcome these same mistakes and work as collaborative and talented filmmakers, now knowing what each of their strengths and weaknesses were and where their hearts were guiding them, specifically, in their field. To make matters better, Purchase always gave each student the opportunities to grow in that collaborative environment, as was the case with junior year as well. From day one, students sat in a room with 12 others and two professors and they worked together to workshop each script, each budget, and each plan of intent. Constructive criticism, helpful suggestions, and even new ideas were always brought up by every student, helping them see things in an entire new light and learn to grow from working alongside others. And while the students always have worked together on sets in different roles, by senior year each strength on set had been realized, and students worked together with their peers in their respective fields to not only work, but contribute and incorporate their own artistic ideas into each task. And why would the collaboration stop there. Once their final semester would hit and all attention was directed to editing, students would come in with new material and new cuts and have their peers watch, comment, and suggest what wasn't working. What could work better, what was needed to make something hit more. The environment was truly open-minded and always constantly improving with new ideas and different points of view. By the time seniors would take their seats at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville or Lincoln Center in the city in May, where all seniors would screen their final films as a special privilege, nothing but growth and a much deeper understanding of what it means to be a storyteller would be reflected in each film.