Wrap Up: Foundations of Media Design Questions
- Memorable class highlight: There are so many. This was truly quite a unique entourage of people to work with and critique every week, but I really enjoyed screening When the Day Breaks.
- Preferred medium before the course: Documentary Film Production
- Preferred medium after the course: It is still documentary film production. However, I would love to integrate still photography, and if I can become a little bit more comfortable executing applications, photoshop into future film projects. I also really enjoyed working with literal sound and plan on applying techniques explored in this course to my own work.
- A topic/theme/question I would like to explore in my next project is: I'm really fascinated by people who spend endless voyeuristic hours screening YouTube. I'm amazed at the inane things that people will watch. I would like to interview the cult of YouTube watchers, find out about their backgrounds, and just what draws them to observing other peoples lives rather than living their own.
- Something I learned in this class that I can teach someone else: (non-technical) ten different synonyms for the word battered, and to recognize that everyone in this class comes here with a different story and level of experience so don't compare yourself to them.
- Something I learned in this class that I can teach someone else: (technical) How to create layers in photoshop and tables in dream weaver.
- Something that I will try to do next semester that I have never done before: Not negate or diminish accomplishments no matter how little the triumph.
- Something I will try to do everyday that I did not do before this course: Carry a digital camera and voice data recorder wherever I go.
- A creative project I could do with a restriction-free budget of $150 million: I would like to do a project on child prodigies, but not your typical prodigies idiot savant's, children with learning disabilities who have exceptional talents. I would like to shoot and interview on a global scale and purchase the rights to footage. Travel would be costly as well as licensing footage. I would also add after effects and key frame specialists if appropriate for the theme of the project, this too would be probably be costly.
- How I could do the same project with a budget of $15: Well I want to produce so I guess I would have to apply for grants and raise the money. I would shoot around the city, borrow equipment, and interview kids who attend free or non for profit programs.
