For my four year degree plan, I have been focusing on getting my Communications major. This major with most likely help me get a career as a film critic in the future. Not sure if I have a back up plan, but I’m sure I’ll have one down the road.
I do, in fact, have a minor in Journalism & Digital Media, and I have had thought of being a double major. The second one was going to be art, but I soon discovered how much hours I had to put into my major, so I switched to having one major.
In a video series called Guitar Moves, it featured the host Matt Sweeney, interviewing an iconic guitar player, Keith Richards from the world-famous band known as The Rolling Stones. At the beginning of the interview, Sweeney remembered that when he was about 18 years old, he watched an interview where Keith Richards displayed that what really matters when playing a guitar is that it is “all about the wrist” and how the guitar cannot play a tune unless you play the strings on the guitar. Usually everyone thinks that when they use a guitar, they always play like it was an electric guitar as seen from rock bands or any other bands of a particular genre. This is where Keith Richards brings up the line “There’s Two Side to Every Story.” The two sides meaning that there is one side strumming the guitar playing the rhythm, and the other side (the left) pick the tones for the guitar to play. He also implied that, “If one side doesn’t connect with the other (if the one hand doesn’t function well with the other hand), then you would get half of the story,” basically something resembling something more along the lines of a love story.
He informs that if anyone who is willing to be a guitar player (for either being in a band or just for playing the instrument just as a hobby), the acoustic guitar is one of the most important instruments to play if you are starting out. You can’t just immediately start from the top, you have to work from the ground-up, until you proceed to the point to where you want to be at. Everything takes practice over time. One of the examples I’d like to share is that I’m a drummer, I’ve been in a drumlins before, I’ve played on a drum set at my friends house and it was something I wanted to get better at. The predicament that I had to think about, is that you can’t just start by playing a song from Judas Priest or DragonForce, you have to start from the very beginning. Learning the fills, learn how to play with rhythm and timing, and learn how to use your feet when playing on a bass pedal (or the one I wanted to work on, a double bass pedal (and by the way, learning the double bass is about as difficult as ever, but I’m still trying to practice doing it)). Keith Richards didn’t start playing guitar like he was Yngwie Malmsteen or George Lynch, he learned about playing guitar just by his own grandfather.
The way we learn anything is when we go from the ground up, we get increasingly better as we grow up. The same applies to Visual Studies, once we take things step by step, we will learn so much things, even something that we have never seen and learned before from our teenage years.
For each class ask yourself the following:
Computer Skills:
Research & Writing Skills:
ACTION PLAN:
I’m not failing any classes, but the lowest grade so far is Intro to Comm with a B.
10 Ways to Perform Better in the Class
Last week, in my Visual Studies seminar, there were 2-3 students who presented with a series of artistic work that they have created on their own. One of the students (whose names I will not convey) who presented gave us a PowerPoint filled with photography, the other gave us a series of beautiful anime-like drawings and other creative paintings, and the final one showed her technique in video game design. All three have showed immaculate work and it’ll interesting to see what they will created next year.
The assignment it says that I’d create a website a in the future, and seeing how I would a movie critic in the future, that would be in fact true. So seeing how I would need websites to make put in my videos, put in a few blogs on it and type in an about me page, then I have selected four websites that may to job just right, from how they are created, how they look, how the site operates and what options does it provide you with.
SITES:
http://www.chrisstuckmann.com/
http://www.rogerebert.com/
doubletoasted.com
http://birthmoviesdeath.com/
In my visual studies class, I had to take a series of pictures that followed the elements of Gestalt. Within a matter of a week or so, I managed to make the deadline and post some really good photos. I went about this going to Downtown Austin, basically the perfect place to take photos and I made sure to take photos that not only caught my eye, but fit the principles.
The strongest aspect of these photos is the scale, for example, with the one on the top, it feels gorgeous and lager than life. I’m not sure there are any further weak aspects about the photos in it. The photos however can be strengthened with a vibrant amount of color and range.It’s could also be strengthened with Photoshop to make the image more eye-popping.
