Convo provoking questions

Why are we doing interviews?...Are interviews really the best way to capture our subject?

How can one best "encourage" the interviewee to tell them your story?

The Art of the Real

Brainstorming for the project:

campus athletes
admissions officer in engineering or business
the nighttime clean-up guy at the undergrad*

I want to aim for something that will be unique to the experiences that I have week to week. I want to learn more about one of the people who is part of my everyday life, yet I know nothing about.

voice over narration

Objectivity in Media

All media is created by humans and is therefore all subjective. The important part is realizing this as a viewer and seeking to understand how the authors point of view affects the message that is trying to be relayed. The lack of objectivity in media is what makes it art.

My Case Competition Experience

This past Friday I participated in a case competition that was sponsored by Philip Morris. Our team failed miserably in presenting a product that was close to what the company expected from a winning team, but this afforded us a great opportunity to learn about what Sales is like in the corporate world. I learned that selling anything is less about the information and more about the art of conversation. People will give their business to someone they trust and who is able to present some element of understanding when it comes to the other persons needs.

Learning from an individual is always more effective than learning from a book. There is something about being able to see the sincerity in an individual's face that gives more credence to the advice that is being given.

Questions for the audience

Did the two symbolic decisions seem too stereotypical of a college student?
Did the fork in the road decisions make sense as general symbols of decision making?
What images would you have liked to see instead of the ones chosen?
What kind of decisions are you forced to make on a day to day basis at school?

My Process During Creation

For this video, I put a significantly longer period of time into the planning stage. Before I filmed anything, I already had in mind the images that I wanted to capture, and what I believed those images would convey in my work. Once I had gathered the necessary footage, completion of the project came down to trimming the clips, and tying everything together with music and words. I feel that I put a much more concentrated effort into this project, and because of that, produced a much higher quality product. I will be much less nervous when I display this video to the class.

Inspiration Box

Things that inspire me:

success
friends
parents
money
possessions
other successful people
love

Quotes:

'So do all who see such times. But that is not for us to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that we are given.'
-Gandalf

"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string."
-Emerson

"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?"
-Einstein

"Tis a far greater thing to dare great deeds and to win great triumphs, although checkered with defeat, than to live amongst those poor souls who neither suffer nor enjoy much because they live in a gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
-Theodore Roosevelt

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