{"id":17332,"date":"2021-02-15T13:53:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T21:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/dodge\/2021\/02\/15\/student-spotlight-chitra-dassapa\/"},"modified":"2021-02-15T13:53:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T21:53:04","slug":"student-spotlight-chitra-dassapa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/2021\/02\/15\/student-spotlight-chitra-dassapa\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Spotlight: Chitra Dassapa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17333 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2021\/02\/2.22.21-1-580x580.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"326\" height=\"326\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us a bit about yourself\u2026.<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I came to Chapman as a Violin Performance major but quickly learned that I wanted another element to my educational experience, so I applied to the PRA program freshman year and was admitted! Though I am in the film school, my background is rooted in music as I have been learning and performing the violin and viola for 15 years now! Outside of being a string player, I am also a singer-songwriter and prior to COVID-19, I played multiple shows in the Los Angeles and Orange County areas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>What made you choose Dodge?<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I chose Dodge College for a variety of reasons. As a student in the College of Performing Arts, I felt as though I needed an education in the business of the entertainment industry. Additionally, I had a variety of musical interests and wanted the space and support to explore beyond the realm of classical music. Having a strong interest in both film and short-form content, but never a technical understanding of a how a production works, I knew Dodge would be the best environment to learn as much as possible. Additionally, I hoped to use my music performance and production skills to work on films in whatever way possible!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Cool projects you worked on?<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In my time at Chapman, I have interned for producer and DJ Mark Ronson at Sony Music where I was able to assist artists such as Lykke Li and Anderson Paak. Additionally this past summer, I was a public relations intern for both Art of Development and Eternal Fleur. I currently work both for the Chapman Public Relations department, and Dodge\u2019s social media team. Film-wise, I was a production assistant on the documentary; \u201cHow To Be: Mark Ronson,\u201d Tyla Yaweh\u2019s new music video, \u201cAll the Smoke,\u201d and one of the music composers on a graduate thesis titled, \u201cAurora.\u201d In terms of performance, I have played multiple shows at The Mint LA, and The Mansion Costa Mesa, and am a part of the collective: RAW Artists. I have also written, recorded, and released multiple songs with the now-graduated, Chapman music duo Meridian.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Favorite class at Dodge?<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My favorite class at Dodge was Agents &amp; Managers, taught by Joe Rosenberg. It was an incredibly informative and eye-opening class on the side of the industry that is less talked about within art school. Taught by a former CAA agent, each class was relevant either in lesson plan or in guest speakers who were often current writers, directors, and agents. I loved our end of the year semester project which was to pitch an artist to an agency to which my group chose the incredible FKA Twigs and it was a blast!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA Public Relations &amp; Advertising, BA Music (Double Major)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3793,"featured_media":19923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[475],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-spotlight-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3793"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}