Media Arts and My Goal

Its hard to say what I had in mind when I suddenly decided to take the media arts course. Maybe its possible that I wasn't really thinking and just decided that the course sounded like fun and I would take it. What probably did go on in my mind was that I liked art and especially flawless art like the graphics of movies and video games. Media Arts is like combining the art which I so much appreciate and the media which makes it flawless like in movies. Knowing this, I probably took the course because I wanted to create that kind of art. Therefore, my goals for this course would probably be to learn digital art and editing, to learn something that may serve to help me in the future designing game graphics or adding special effects to movies whether it is professional or just a home made video.

The Subtext of the Media

The media often use sly techniques to get a consumer to bend to their will. Despite the fact that sometimes it is a mutual benefit, a good amount of the time it is completely unnecessary and just a scam. Some of the things that the media do may be very interesting, unique, and awe inspiring. However some other ones are just despicable. Those just make you, the viewers, angry and insulted even. A while since the women's rights movement, there has been less commercials which may depict the female gender as needy or even stereotypically bad. Instead they, the commercial cartographers moved on to make men the stereotypically needy and, in general, bad. Not that anyone should be put into a needy and bad category, but if they need to do so in order to send the commercial message around, they should do it evenly. The only difference that they made was now that women are not mistreated on commercials, they just got left out on some key parts.

Yes, this may appear to some as a very keen perspective. Actually, all this idea derived from thinking in depth after a very well prepared presentation by a inspiring media developer. It is interesting that some of the most cutest most inocent commercials have subtext that may in turn make them despicable to their audience. Now when I view commercials I often take a moment to think about the subtext of what its trying to say and take a further look at it. However, most of the time I still will ignore it. :)

Another Beginning!

Well, I have moved on from grade 11 media arts to the grade 12 counterpart called interdiciplinary studies. Our first task in this class was to find out what type of learner we are and which part of the multiple intelligences catergory do we fit in. Well, after doing a abundance of questions to reach an accurate result, I realized with the help of these programs that I am average in about all of these. However, some of the factors pionted out to the kind of learner I really am. For example, my most prominent learning skill is mathematical and logical, my visual spacial is pretty strong too. This made me feel good because I really like the aspects of learning and maybe that is why I am this type of learner. Although I have to say I am a bit disappionted because I also wanted to be a musical rythmitical learner too. I am although satisfied that it is my third strongest learning method despite its close proximity with the other learning habits.