Month: November 2017

Part 1: Response to Presentation:

The presenters at our class Friday were Nate and Ame Austin who own a self-funded game company in Austin, TX. They both together created a video game called Wildermyth. I learned that if you have the funds then you should go ahead and create your own video game.

Part 2: My Question

When did you realize that you loved your job and picked the right career?

Part 1: Alumni Presentations

• Alejandro Ura: SXSW Business Development

  • Alejandro talked about how he helped build campaigns and promotions as a business developer at SXSW. He also mentioned how he crafted video games or promos to engage with the audience. He talked about his passion for video games and how he built his skills of understanding video games, immersing yourself in your passion, and improving yourself always here at St. Ed’s.
  • My Thoughts: I thought his job was really cool and different and not a typical job you think of getting when growing up.

• Anthony M. Zubia: Art Director & Freelance Designer

  • Anthony talked about how he started his career and passion here at St. Ed’s. He mentioned how he first started by creating posters for student life. He then told us about his internship at TCF and how he was soon hired by the company as a creative director. And then he showed us his work and gave us advice on how to sell our work and sell our name.
  • My Thoughts: I really liked his presentation because being an art director is something I want to work for as a graphic designer.

• Edith Valle

  • Edith talked about her background and how she connects or shows it through her creative work. She also talked about her internship at Transmission Events and how she made posters for their events. She also mentioned the cool projects she was apart of and museums her work have been showcased at.
  • My Thoughts: I really liked her creative work and hope to be getting invited to projects like her.

Part 2: Potential Internships

1. Triple 8 Management
2. Beanitos
3. Bluebonnet Visual Branding

Part 1: Thoughts on Faculty Presentations

• Kim Garza
  • Kim in her presentation showed us her work and talked about her creative journey. I thought is was really cool that she talked about her husband creating new music to the steps or dancing to a play and how she used the music her husband made to make a new play based on the new music. It was also interesting how she used problems that we have in society to make creative content like guides to help parents with new born babies.
• Bill Kennedy
  • Bill in his presentation showed us his work of turning ordinary objects into work that is not recognizable in the final product. He talked about how he used Photoshop to make his final product and how he had no set method but did whatever he thought was right to make the final product. In my opinion I did not like his work. I thought it was boring and the art did not catch my attention in any way.
• Tuan Phan
  • Tuan talked about the past work he has created. My favorite work he created was how during the election he made face stickers of Hillary and Trump with the election day date.
• Jimmy Luu
  • Jimmy talked to us about his risograph lab and publication experiences. I really liked this professors presentation the best because he has worked in publication which is something I am looking for in my career.

Part 2: My 5-Year Plan

What is it that I want to achieve:

-I want to be a book cover designer at a book publishing company with a $41,000 salary.

Steps I need to take to achieve this goal:

• Become very familiar with InDesign
• Complete an internship with a book publishing company
• have a good resume

The transitions in the Richter film happened at a slow pace in the beginning but after some time the shapes then started to appear at a faster pace. The transitions happened at places that were unexpected, so it happened to feel like watching a horror movie and kept me at the edge of my seat because I never knew from where on the screen the next shape was going to appear at. The transitions also felt like he was trying to hypnotize the audience throughout the film and did not allow me to think about anything else but the film’s next transitions.

The movie Pulp Fiction was very interesting to dissect and put together to understand. I am not too sure what you mean when you say to discuss the use of time, so I am going to discuss what I think you mean. In the beginning of the movie Vincent and Jules go on a mission to kill someone and Jules asks for the time and says it’s not time yet, so they move to the side to continue their conversation and when its exactly the time then they knock on the door. This indicates to me that they used their time well and did not want to show up early to their duties. There was also this other scene in the movie where Vincent must count to three to give the adrenaline shot to Mia. And the use of time here is used as a guide for Vincent to give the shot. And there was a third scene where Jules, Vincent and Mr. Wolfe had 40 minutes to clean the car. My thoughts on the use of time in this scene are that they used their time very precisely and moved quickly so as not to go over the time given. And those are my thoughts in of the use of time in Pulp Fiction.