Los Questions #1

1) You've worked on a group film and on your own. In which situation are you most comfortable - group or solo? Which do you work best in?


 I don't want to say I like one over the other because I don't. Personally I feel like I need to both and I get things done when I am put in both situations. I like the balance of having pressure on myself which motivates me to get things done and done right when I work alone. When I work with other people the stress is shared and it is not as much. I loved the group film. I thought it was a great way to start off the year. I have been interested in acting for a while and I haven't done much about it. I am doing stage crew for the play "Our Town" to get a better feel of everything and hopefully I will move on to actually auditioning for a part in the musical. Anyways! yeah well this film was really cool it was the first time I actually broke out of my shell and it was a bit intimidating since I was in a group with all talented and experienced actors. That's why I like group work because you can work off each other and motivate each other.


 2) What did you learn that you expected to learn?

In the individual part I was expecting to get a better control of the vine and compressed charcoal and get better at still life drawings. This summer I worked with still life drawings but they were just so terrible. I really just want to do one still life that actually looked like the thing I am drawing. The only thing that I have made that looked like the legit thing was a drapery piece.

3) What did you learn that you didn't expect to learn? 


 I learned a little bit more about proportions. Courtney was floating around the room one day and I had asked her to help me because my piece looked so off and I was about to throw it out and actually explode. She had told me that my angles were off and I was doing them wrong. When I saw her doing it I realized I was and when I tried it for myself the piece transformed and it was pretty cool. In the group project I learned that I am not as shy as I think I am. I was honestly so scared of showing that film to the class. I was about to pee myself. Once Luke played it I calmed down and I didn't even care that everyone was watching. I started to laugh and I was not expecting that from myself.

4) What didn't you learn that you expected to learn?

For the Individual I didn't learn how to actually do a still life without a picture. Which was my whole purpose of choosing the charcoal still life as my project. I am pretty upset about that but my final piece turned out pretty awesome. I definitely won't stop trying. I am working a little bit at home on my own time with charcoal still lives.


 5) Praise your amazing achievement and explain your brilliant plan for pulling it off.

For the individual I ended up drawing Peter for my charcoal piece. I am pretty proud of it. It is the first piece that I made that actually looks like the person I am trying to draw without me using the grid technique. At first I was having a lot of trouble with the proportions and it was really stressful because Peter was moving, I was moving and there were eraser shavings everywhere. Finally, I decided to get Peter to pose and I took my fabulous iphone and took a picture and I started using the picture as a reference. I came across many obstacles. One being my cracked phone. This kid dropped my phone and cracked the whole screen so I had to look at the picture like that. It wasn't too bad it made the picture look kind of cool. As I am writing this I am starting to wish that I had included the cracked screen in the piece. Other than that that was my brilliant plan for pulling it off!