My experience

I don't know what to say about what I'm supposed to say, so I'll just go ahead and say it. As an aspiring voice actor, I chose to take this class in the hopes of becoming better acquainted with the behind-the-scenes details, broaden my horizons, and further my pursuit of success in achieving my career choice. Regardless of whether that is the case, my experience in this class has certainly reflected my current conduct: that I am not as prepared for it as I thought I was. I am one who prefers to take his own pace, but I am also prone to letting work pile up and lie forgotten, which I believe to be inexcusable, dare I say so. On the upside, I have garnered new information on how to work a camera and determine the best angles to shoot videos and pictures something, even considering how I have worked with ordinary photographic cameras multiple times in the past. I can also say I've become intrigued by the uses of various lighting and design techniques, but I must add that my understanding of them remains relatively shallow. Having no one else to blame other than myself and my negligence, I can offer no substantial advice to my professor to improve the experience. I can only hope to work my way through this obstacle and continue pursuing my passion, for while my experience in this class left a lot to be desired, it shall not deter me in the future.

Design I Like

Well, I'm required to find some sort of design and base my knowledge of specific design concepts that we have been discussing in class, such as composition, balance, color, and typography. Of course, that knowledge has been lost in the hellish chaos of these past few weeks, so I am going to do whatever I can do in order to pull something together and get credit for this thing, no matter how little there is. Anyway, the image I decided to appreciate is a portrait used from a kind of computer game, a Japanese visual novel entitled "Umineko no Naku Koro ni", which means "When Seagulls Cry" in English. The portrait depicts a woman named Beatrice, also known as the Golden Witch. In the story, this Golden Witch is merely a legend and believed not to exist until hints regarding the truth behind her existence begin to surface, with this portrait serving as a means of determining what Beatrice is like. According to the design, a majority of the colors used suggest a warm atmosphere surrounding Beatrice. However, this is in stark contrast to her blue eyes, which give off a chilling aura to her smile. With these techniques, it's easy to make something like a portrait, which is generally a prop in the story, be treated as if it were an actual character. Of course, by now, I've completely lost track of what I want to say, so I had might as well wrap it up here of all places.

The image can be seen below:

My Trip

At some point towards the end of winter (specifically which point I cannot recall because I didn't write this directly after that point, which I probably should have), I attended a trip to the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens. All I can remember was that I participated in a segment where we recorded our own voices to dub lines in a scene from the movie Babe. I probably would've had a more fulfilling experience to write about if I could actually remember all the things I did there, for my memories of the trip are stymied by the hellish experience I underwent to actually reach the museum. The streets and sidewalks were all coated in slush so I couldn't walk nearly as fast as I wanted to without a fear of slipping, and I think I circled the same block twice before I stopped to ask for directions. In retrospect, I wonder if spending 30 seconds of dubbing over the lines of a talking pig were really worth it. One would probably debate whether or not it was fortunate to skip the Theatre class I was in to make it to the museum on time (I ended up arriving twenty minutes early, by the way). Of course, it did cost me a reading of the play Legend of the White Snake, which is one of the driving factors causing me to spectacularly fail my Theatre midterm. That being said, this was a trip I certainly won’t soon forget.