Unfortunately , it ' s not as simple as red and blue states , it ' s much closer to UrbanRural . Even traditional liberal states like NY , CA , WA , OR all have pockets of Red . The population is so much more dense in the cities that they always look blue , but the whole country is pretty much some shade of purple . Look at the vote by county . personal . umich . edu ~ mejnelection 2016 countymappurple 512 . png Hell , even in Chicago 15 % of my liberal precinct voted for Trump despite presumably knowing that voting for Trump in IL is useless . Your utopia sounds nice though . <| sep |> Same thing happened to me . I understood then why many filmmakers like to see their movie with live audiences before they finish it . Here ' s my suggestion , it ' s all learning curve , and that learning curve needs to be climbed , and the only way to do it is to start from the bottom and to start climbing , fixing little things along the way , sound , lighting , acting , camera work , editing , etc . There ' s never a need to get it all right , there ' s only a need to get the next one thing right . This is what giving yourself space to fail looks like . It ' s giving yourself the space to get better . And don ' t worry about the rest of the class . I had people who were interning at Skywalker Ranch and their pieces looked amazing , still we all came out about the same . And aside from Cary F . no breakouts , and he wasn ' t even in my year .