b'Summer Academy Registration is now open!LEARNING A NEW SKILL HAS NEVER BEEN MORE FUN!Classes For students entering grades 612 include: Filmmaking Acting for Film & TVScreenwritingImprov Directors LabPodcastingVern Miller and Jeiris Cook in Millers home studio, adorned with music memorabilia,Visual Effects (VFX)Animation instruments and sound equipment, discuss how they collaborated remotely on theirEditingIndie Filmmaking (Level 2) music.I had such a great experience in filmmaking I learned how to work with a crew, how to edithis blood, making a career out of it wasthere singing a cappella. I had to learn on a computer, and I made a lot of friends.a pipe dream. He played with a groupan instrument. You have to be able to Teen Studentfor a few years after high school, butaccompany yourself.Financial Assistance is available for qualified students.then, life happened. He got married,So thats when Cook, at age 36, de-Dont wait! Sessions fill up fast.had children, and other than writing acided to learn to play the guitar. Visit MontclairFilm.org/Education song here or there, didnt do music forBythetimeCookwanderedinto for more information and to register about 10 years. Millers home studio in 2019, he had not Instead, he worked at Verizon, didonly mastered guitar, but he was writing a brief stint as warehouse manager forhis own songs and playing paid gigs most We keep you smiling! Peloton and was selling mattresses forweekends,turninghissignatureblend Ashley Furniture when he went on aof soulful vocals with traces of folk and Cub Scouts camping trip with his sonR&B into a full-time musical career. and realized that if he could play gui- He came in and we started talking Everyeffortismadetotar, he could lead the campfire songs.and listening to music, Miller says.ensuretheutmostcomfortI wanted to do (music) full time,Welistenedtoalotofmusic, for each patient. Cook says. I always got positive feed- Cook says, laughing.back about my voice, but I knew thatAfewmonthslater,whenrestau-Enjoy a modern professionalnobody would hire me just going outrants and concert venues shuttered in environmentandacaring2020, Miller dove into songwriting. I staff.As a former faculty member of Fairleigh Dickinson Dental School, Dr. Wisz now devotes all her time to private practice.Wendy Wisz, DMDGeneral, Restorative & Cosmetic Dentistry250 Millburn Avenue | Millburn973-467-0077Saturdays and Evenings AvailableOn site parking | Convenient location More memorabilia from Millers music studio: a reunion concert of the Remains (Miller is third from left) and signed headshots of the Beatles.18/ matters magazine / spring 2023'