Reflections

I learned a lot this semester in Digital Media, sometimes I struggled, other times I felt ahead of the game.

When we started out, I was feeling pretty comfortable, our first real assignment was the Urban Landscapes, taking photos via cell phone - right up my alley. I didn't do as well  the following week when we edited them. Reading the assignment, I thought she wanted us to go all out, and really change the photos... that wasn't really the case and my photos kind of suffered for it. I did way too much to them. I think overall, that assignment was a success though. We then used those photos to make our Animoto "video" slideshow. I am way too anal, so this stressed me out quite a bit. I really wanted to tell a story with the music, and I had difficulty lining up the starting and stopping points, but in the end, it turned out pretty well.

Then we moved on to Typologies... Remember my rock grid? This was my favorite assignment! Putting it together was a little tedious, but the end result was well worth it.

I can't believe I was able to create an original song, can you? I think I did a terrific job on it, considering I am not musically inclined in the least. I really enjoyed making my mashup video; my classmates didn't really understand the story I was trying to tell or even really understand about claymation. Seriously. Sometimes I feel like the biggest weirdo/outsider. My instructor understood for the most part, so that made me feel a little better.

I don't usually enjoy text based art, you know, some attention whore in comments somewhere makes a huge-ass picture and you have to scroll down forever to read the actual relevant comments... I did, however, like my self portrait. I was feeling very vulnerable at the time, and as my instructor said, sometimes that's the precise moment when the real honest creativity comes out.

We then moved on to Vector graphics, I didn't have much luck with this, neither did most of my class. I think it's a cool concept, and think there are other ways I would like to look into creating more, perhaps with a different program.

Then we made a website, not some dinky blog, a real honest to goodness website. I'm proud of that too, it always seem beyond my reach. I have to admit the software was pretty intuitive, so I can't take a whole lot of credit for it, but I still did it.

I liked this class a lot, unfortunately due to some personal issues I wasn't able to focus 100% of my attention to it, had I been able to, I would have enjoyed it more. I would recommend anybody to take this class at the University of Toledo under my instructor Phoebe Ballard.  She is kind, understanding and most importantly, hilarious.