Fear Assignment

4.    Conduct the experiment.
For my fear assignment, I decided to create a fake test and have the instructor present it to the class as a last minute pop quiz worth an amount of points. The pop quiz was a 24 word word search with words that related to fear and common fears. The test was presented to the students before the projects were officially started to make it more believable. Everyone was given 5 minutes to take the test to give a sense of immediate urgency.

    5.    Observe the reaction.
The initial reaction was displeasure. I think some people might have though it was a joke seeming that it was April fools day but eventually, with a little persuasion from the instructor, everyone took it seriously. My intention was to present a stress factor to have a reaction of fear and anxiety of failing or not doing well. I feel towards the end of the test most people felt uncomfortable with their results, some even being angry with having to take it. A few people said they weren't worried about the outcome of the test because the overall amount of points with the class would help balance out the bad test grade.

    6.    Analysis of hypothesis with actual outcome.
I feel that my hypothesis of the project was along the right lines with the outcome of the experiment but not to the extreme that I would have liked. I think most people at some point received a little anxiety of some form or another and that was my initial intention.

    7.    Propose changes to your idea based on what happened.
I think that I could have changed the test a little bit to make it more extreme such as multiple choice questions or true and false or fill in the blank. I also think that I could have had the instructor send out a message or something a day or two before class saying that we were going to have a pop quiz on Monday about fear. That could have possibly began the anxiety a little earlier. The amount of time for the test would have been lengthened if the test would have been harder.

Hypothesis of Fear Assignment

For my fear project, I hypothesis that the class will react in displeasure with what I am planning. Their reactions might include anxiety, stress, shock, and nervousness. I hope it gets taken some what seriously as some people might not be fearful of what I'm planning, but I think everyone on some level is fearful for what I want to do.

Talking Stick

I thought the talking stick was an interesting idea to use in a classroom setting. The flow and focus of the conversation seemed a lot different. When everyone knows only one person can talk at one time it can slow the conversation to a point where you can only speak when that person is ready to pass the stick. It also gives you time to think about if what you have to say is important enough for everyone to direct their full attention to you and also taking the time to get the stick. There were times I wanted to say something but by the time I had a chance to get the stick or did actually take it I kinda lost track of where I was in the conversation. I also thought it was a lot harder to carry on a conversation because a conversation requires quick questions or responses to continue the conversation and it wasn't easily done while having to pass the stick. I think the talking stick would be better in more heated debates where only one person should be allowed to talk at a time. It's not very useful for casual conversation unless you wanted to make a physical exercise out of it or use a projectile of some sort. Overall, I thought the talking stick was a fun and different way to conduct the class discussion. I don't know if I would like to use it all the time but it could come in very useful in certain situations.

Roadblock and senses

For this assignment the roadblock I chose was time. For some reason I have a problem with time. I uses to think I didn't have enough time but now I don't know how to use the time I have effectively. So for one of my senses i chose taste. I decided to bake a cake in the shape of a clock and had all my friends over to eat it. The second sense I chose was sight. I decided not to look at a clock intentionally for one day. I chose a day I didn't have to go to school or work so I didn't have to worry about time at all. It was, in a way, therapeutic. I went about my daily routine but instead relied upon how I was feeling to do things such as eat. I can't tell you how hard it is to not look at a clock because they are everywhere and you don't realize it untill you're trying not to look at one.

Road Blocks

Road Blocks.

I felt this assignment was going to be extremely easy because I like to complain a lot about the roadblocks to my creativity in my life. But, after spending the time what I enjoy doing, I realized that the roadblocks weren't really the issue. The issue was how I manage my time.
So the list of Roadblocks are as follows:
Work, School, Girlfriend, Dogs, Time, Equipment, Resources, Friends, Other Peoples Time, Money.

Looking at the list, I feel Time, Work, and Money kind of fall into the same category. I used to spend a lot of time at work to make money. I recently have been taking time off of work to work on my capstone. So I realized that if I'm not working and not making money, I need to be spending that time wisely on projects and other things that make me happy. But, the things that make me happy, Girlfriend, Dogs, Friends, can also take away from the time that I have to be productive towards my project. The way I kind of worked around this was to work on my project in the same room with my girlfriend doing homework and dogs playing so we're all spending time together but getting homework done. The obstacle in this is when I need to go somewhere to shoot video or go to school to edit footage. The roadblocks then come up for Equipment, Resources, Friends again and Other peoples time. To shoot footage, I have to work with other peoples schedules who have completely different schedules than myself. Sometimes that means we can't shoot on days I would normally have off work and the days they always have off work, for them to shoot would be pulling them away from the people they usually spend time with on the weekends to come shoot with me. Not forgetting that I usually work weekends, so Work Time and Money come back into play because I'm the one asking off work again. I'm not sure how to work around this except to keep asking off work but when I do there are days where not everyone can get together last minute to shoot. It's a frustrating group of roadblocks, but somehow I'll manage to get around them.

inspiration/work

My Inspiration

It took me a while to figure out what inspired me besides the normal stuff like my family and my girlfriend because I want them to be proud of me and so on and so forth. So I tried to think why I am the person I am today and why do I like the things that I'm into. My first love was music. When I was younger I wanted to learn to play guitar and there was one band that inspired me to do so, Further Seems Forever.
                               
Surprisingly they are still my favorite band 10+ years later. I wouldn't say they inspire me to do much today, but they got the inspiration ball rolling for me.

My second area for inspiration happened by randomly buying a movie that I thought the cover looked cool to. That movie was The Royal Tenenbaums by Wes Anderson. I didn't know what the movie was or what it was about, but after watching it for the first time, I felt I hadn't watched anything like it before. The way Wes tells a story in his movies started some sort of fire in me. I've seen all of his films and love them all. He has inspired me to get into video and to learn how to tell a story with film. It is a dream of mine to be able to tell a story in a way he does but I'm sure his greatness will never be reached.