I think today went well, and when my piece was reviewed, I would say that I have to agree with Raph. While I have made a large amount of progress and I have a bit of a crescendo, I think that I need to go back and really push it. The problem that I'm having with this project is with the sound. I want to get all of the sound done before I start the visual portion, but the way things are going I'm going to need to start the visual part earlier than the finished sound. This could cause problems, because if I change the sound, some of the visuals that I create will be all for nothing. Hopefully in the next couple days I can buckle down and get some real results of my efforts and thoughts.
Raph brought us back to the basics today with his 2D examples of the contrasting colors that "change" according to context. He didn't explain further what he wanted with the project.
My concerns with this project is that we won't execute this new assignment the way he envisioned us to. Anyone have thoughts on how to make this project awesome?
Today went better than I had expected, but still not as good as I had hoped. I don't really understand this assignment, and I haven't really had any revelations so far. I understand what I think Raph wants, but I don't understand how to do it.
My worry is that I'm going to screw this whole thing up, but he said today that if we don't know what to do, we could do better work, and I'm hoping that's what will happen.
Like Rebekah, I'm worried that since we've been given so much freedom and little direction that we'll not meet Raph's expectations. The first half of today's class was slightly helpful in that it helps to give us an idea of the kind of structure we need to aim for in our projects. I think that on some level we all knew what Raph was getting at, we just couldn't articulate it in words. I have to admit that I'm kind of uneasy about not knowing exactly how to go about creating this project, of course Raph seems confident that this is simply a steppingstone to conceptualize and create our pieces. We can only hope that this will turn out as Raph has envisioned.
I am a little worried about meeting expectations as far as visually showing the piece without representing it. I wasn't sure about my redo of the sound poem because we were not able to listen to mine in its entirety, but I feel like mine has that crescendo that Raph is looking for. I agree that the little amount of direction on this next piece could be a bit troublesome, but I feel like it can be accomplished with some creativity.
So we all failed our audio piece which is awesome since in two weeks we are all going to fail our video parts of the piece. Lets all stay completely lost and have no direction what so ever. At least we are keeping things consistent. I can't wait till everyone fails there video piece and has to redo it over break anyways. Maybe in two thursdays from now we might even get some directions who knows. We went over the 5 con's today and that would have been interesting execept we played guessing games all class instead of having a basic understanding of what the five con's can or can't do for us.
I came to class mildly agitated by the amount of mass confusion due to redundant flaws in communication. I'm still worried about being linear because if you think about it, every story seems linear in a sense, it all has a similar structure in terms of beginning to end. You can be fancy and tell the end first the beginning in the middle and the rise and fall at the end, but really its just chopping up linearity. So I've decided to take my current tracks and mix them up to form the exact antithesis of what it is now, thus making it non linear...right? Raph has a point in saying that new media students have been stripped of all of their creativity due to poor education, I can't really argue that at all. I'm going to swing hard at the fences and if Raph hates it, at least I tried.
Class was alright today. Raph was in and was functioning properly and we went over some revised audio pieces. He didn't like any of them again, and I still don't know what to do for mine because he won't tell me what to do again. I am just hoping I can get my audio together and make it sound half alright. I think I am just going to redo my whole audio piece, think of a totally different idea for it and hope for the best because that's all I can do right now.
Response to Aaron:
I agree with the whole guessing game thing Raph plays with us. I HATE that he friggin makes us guess what hes thinking when it could be way easier and it would benefit us if he just told us flat out. It wastes class time when he makes us guess and it's just pointless.
Todays class was alright. I still don't feel like anyone really got much feedback, but it looks like we are winging it. For me there was a bit of clarification on how we should do A4. Also I thought todays discussion was rather interesting. All of the talk about the 5 cons was all new to me and I thought it was pretty cool.
Things are starting to get clearer for me now that class is done, and I'm hoping my project will prove that. My first attempt at this project was clearly missing that build up that he wanted, and I now realize how simple a fix in my audio track so it was more around what he was looking for. Hopefully the animation will be actually what he's looking for this time.
pretty much he wants something non linear, and abstract, but still contains a narrative. What that is, I don't exactly know. So that leaves a large range of possibilities. If you want to please Raphael I would guess to avoid the things he doesn't like because we know what those are, rather than what he is looking for. I don't think he really knows what he wants because like us, he wants to be surprised which our artwork will often do to us. So basically I am gonna try to avoid the things he doesn't like such as, linear, music related, literal pieces.
slightly late to class, but not a big deal. I understand he wants less linearity, but it still seems people don't quite understand how to do it. I'm not exactly sure myself, but i'm willing to try anything at this point to get this project right. I think our pieces did sound better this time around, though.
Lots of talking, lots of guessing words, and a tiny bit of reviewing. I think the problem with the audio pieces lies less in the students lack of understand than it is a lack of caring. Most did sound better the second time around, and by the time the mid terms are being reviewed people will likely know whats required of them to fulfill raphs description. I think if we spent more time actually discussing things in class and less time searching for words while being berated we might have a better understand of what's going on, but at least it makes for a lively class!
I think today went well, and when my piece was reviewed, I would say that I have to agree with Raph. While I have made a large amount of progress and I have a bit of a crescendo, I think that I need to go back and really push it. The problem that I'm having with this project is with the sound. I want to get all of the sound done before I start the visual portion, but the way things are going I'm going to need to start the visual part earlier than the finished sound. This could cause problems, because if I change the sound, some of the visuals that I create will be all for nothing. Hopefully in the next couple days I can buckle down and get some real results of my efforts and thoughts.
ReplyDeleteRaph brought us back to the basics today with his 2D examples of the contrasting colors that "change" according to context. He didn't explain further what he wanted with the project.
ReplyDeleteMy concerns with this project is that we won't execute this new assignment the way he envisioned us to. Anyone have thoughts on how to make this project awesome?
Today went better than I had expected, but still not as good as I had hoped. I don't really understand this assignment, and I haven't really had any revelations so far. I understand what I think Raph wants, but I don't understand how to do it.
ReplyDeleteMy worry is that I'm going to screw this whole thing up, but he said today that if we don't know what to do, we could do better work, and I'm hoping that's what will happen.
Like Rebekah, I'm worried that since we've been given so much freedom and little direction that we'll not meet Raph's expectations. The first half of today's class was slightly helpful in that it helps to give us an idea of the kind of structure we need to aim for in our projects. I think that on some level we all knew what Raph was getting at, we just couldn't articulate it in words. I have to admit that I'm kind of uneasy about not knowing exactly how to go about creating this project, of course Raph seems confident that this is simply a steppingstone to conceptualize and create our pieces. We can only hope that this will turn out as Raph has envisioned.
ReplyDeleteI am a little worried about meeting expectations as far as visually showing the piece without representing it. I wasn't sure about my redo of the sound poem because we were not able to listen to mine in its entirety, but I feel like mine has that crescendo that Raph is looking for. I agree that the little amount of direction on this next piece could be a bit troublesome, but I feel like it can be accomplished with some creativity.
ReplyDeleteSo we all failed our audio piece which is awesome since in two weeks we are all going to fail our video parts of the piece. Lets all stay completely lost and have no direction what so ever. At least we are keeping things consistent. I can't wait till everyone fails there video piece and has to redo it over break anyways. Maybe in two thursdays from now we might even get some directions who knows. We went over the 5 con's today and that would have been interesting execept we played guessing games all class instead of having a basic understanding of what the five con's can or can't do for us.
ReplyDeleteI came to class mildly agitated by the amount of mass confusion due to redundant flaws in communication. I'm still worried about being linear because if you think about it, every story seems linear in a sense, it all has a similar structure in terms of beginning to end. You can be fancy and tell the end first the beginning in the middle and the rise and fall at the end, but really its just chopping up linearity. So I've decided to take my current tracks and mix them up to form the exact antithesis of what it is now, thus making it non linear...right? Raph has a point in saying that new media students have been stripped of all of their creativity due to poor education, I can't really argue that at all. I'm going to swing hard at the fences and if Raph hates it, at least I tried.
ReplyDeleteClass was alright today. Raph was in and was functioning properly and we went over some revised audio pieces. He didn't like any of them again, and I still don't know what to do for mine because he won't tell me what to do again. I am just hoping I can get my audio together and make it sound half alright. I think I am just going to redo my whole audio piece, think of a totally different idea for it and hope for the best because that's all I can do right now.
ReplyDeleteResponse to Aaron:
I agree with the whole guessing game thing Raph plays with us. I HATE that he friggin makes us guess what hes thinking when it could be way easier and it would benefit us if he just told us flat out. It wastes class time when he makes us guess and it's just pointless.
Todays class was alright. I still don't feel like anyone really got much feedback, but it looks like we are winging it. For me there was a bit of clarification on how we should do A4. Also I thought todays discussion was rather interesting. All of the talk about the 5 cons was all new to me and I thought it was pretty cool.
ReplyDeleteThings are starting to get clearer for me now that class is done, and I'm hoping my project will prove that. My first attempt at this project was clearly missing that build up that he wanted, and I now realize how simple a fix in my audio track so it was more around what he was looking for. Hopefully the animation will be actually what he's looking for this time.
ReplyDeletepretty much he wants something non linear, and abstract, but still contains a narrative. What that is, I don't exactly know. So that leaves a large range of possibilities. If you want to please Raphael I would guess to avoid the things he doesn't like because we know what those are, rather than what he is looking for. I don't think he really knows what he wants because like us, he wants to be surprised which our artwork will often do to us. So basically I am gonna try to avoid the things he doesn't like such as, linear, music related, literal pieces.
ReplyDeleteslightly late to class, but not a big deal. I understand he wants less linearity, but it still seems people don't quite understand how to do it. I'm not exactly sure myself, but i'm willing to try anything at this point to get this project right. I think our pieces did sound better this time around, though.
ReplyDeleteLots of talking, lots of guessing words, and a tiny bit of reviewing. I think the problem with the audio pieces lies less in the students lack of understand than it is a lack of caring. Most did sound better the second time around, and by the time the mid terms are being reviewed people will likely know whats required of them to fulfill raphs description. I think if we spent more time actually discussing things in class and less time searching for words while being berated we might have a better understand of what's going on, but at least it makes for a lively class!
ReplyDelete