Opening #3

The content I got to enjoy for this section was pretty interesting though the first video about how art made the world of storytelling was very boring. Other than that I liked the rest of the videos I watched. I thought the comic video was extremely intriguing. It’s impressive to see how storytelling has evolved into what it is today and the way comics can be made interactively is really cool. I’m fascinated with how the one comic diverged into other stories. It was like comic inception with multiple stories within a story. Not only that, but the possibilities of where they can take it are endless. They could make a whole comic world to immerse the viewer in. I also enjoyed the Ted Talk videos which all kind of went hand in hand. I love the idea that storytelling can climb walls and break societal barriers because stories can make us see life from different points of view. Also, it’s astounding that so little of the writers who submit their work to agents actually get their stories chosen to publish. As a dabbler in writing, this is a very scary reality because odds are my work will never be published. But as shown in the videos, that is the beauty of writing and why the greats become great. They keep writing and continue to master their craft. In a weird way, the amount of failure is inspiring. The last video I want to talk about is the remix one involving memes and ideas. I’ve realized that nothing we do is completely original. Knowing this makes the way we treat intellectual property comical because people think an idea they have is original enough to sue someone else for copying. But that’s what you have to appreciate about artists: their egos. I think the video has a great point that if we simply shared all the ideas with no big threat of suing, who knows what me might create and figure out.

Laundry Documentary

This is a documentary about the laundry situation at Ohio University. I filmed it with a flip camera. I tried to keep it as short as I could, but there was too much good material.

Watchin' Me Music Video

I made this beat on garageband and used a flip camera to film the video. This is also an original song called "Watchin' Me" for the cover campus with a cover song project. Two of my friends helped me with the video, but they're not in the media major. There is a "watermark" at the top left because for some reason I was having trouble with flip videos on my computer and had to use a converter. Hope you like it! Enjoy!

Character Caricature

Childish Gambino                                                             

                                                     

1. Raps
2. Sings
3. Acts (as Donald Glover)
4. Writes screenplay (as Donald Glover)
5. Comedian (as Donald Glover)

Chance the Rapper

1. Raps
2. Sings
3. Does Acid
4. Performs
5. Dances

https://app.box.com/s/nx40pkqfu0xl1uoa1aoh


This is a song about Johnny Appleseed, an American icon, and
should not be considered for my media portfolio.

The Jerk Archetype

Opening #2

This opening and group of projects is much more interesting to me because they are much more music driven. The videos were very intriguing and I even enjoyed the video game videos. I had no idea that it was so difficult to get a game with a decent story line to be made by publishers. I also thought the music aspects were enlightening. I found out about a sight called HypeMachine which I had never heard of until now. It consists of a bunch of different artists from all sorts of genres whose music is shared by bloggers and rated. It is a great way to kind of filter through all the music there is out there today. The creativity video by Ted Talks was very interesting in the way she looked at creating new things. I thought it was a good way to keep things in perspective and not put too much pressure on ourselves though I don’t really know how I feel about it. If it’s not taken too literally and instead looked at for the message it’s trying to convey, I think it’s great advice. We’re all just trying to express ourselves through media and we have to realize that not everything we create is going to be a masterpiece. However, those countless mistakes are what lead to the masterpieces. So, when we make those mistakes we can’t be too hard on ourselves and when we see others make mistakes we can’t be quick to write them off as failures. It’s just like the theme of this class. It takes 10,000 hours to become truly great at something and even then who knows? And we also can’t be too quick to let our egos grow just because we create a masterpiece IF we create one. I think it’s important to remember both and that’s really what I took away from this opening this time around. It’s all about trying to keep things in perspective on both ends of the spectrum.