Video Art Pt. 1

This is my first blog for my Video Art class. One thing that I forgot to ask is how long this supposed to be. I suppose I'll just have to wing it.

I am a transfer student, and so far I find college painstakingly unbearable. I'm not looking to spend the next few years of my life writing essays about things that I couldn't care less about, and I'm not looking for busy work. I don't want to spend half of my time procrastinating my schoolwork because it bores me so much that I don't want to do it. I'm looking to create things. Art. I'm looking to create art from things that both inspire and challenge me. I'm sick of drawing apples. I'm sick of working with unmotivated people. I want to get things done, and I want to do them well, so hopefully this class helps me with my endeavors.

For the past two years, I have been a Fire Science and Studio Art major, and I have yet to take a film class since high school. I've always loved film, and I hope to be both a director and stunt person one day. My biggest inspiration has always been Tim Burton, and although I will never be as successful as he, I hope to stay true to myself and my style throughout my film experience. I hope to create original and unique work that the black sheep can relate to and become inspired by. I hope to achieve a lot through film, and I owe my interests and motivation to Tim Burton.

I hope that by next fall I will be attending a film school in California or New York, but for now I need to get my act together so I can create quality work for my applications and portfolio. I guess you could say that I'm excited to see what the projects in this class will be, and I'm interested in seeing how the others in the class will interpret the same prompt. It's always interesting to see different people's takes on the same prompt. A person's art says a lot about who they are, and it's fun to analyze films and to find out why someone made the decisions they made.

What I am nervous about is this group project. Everyone knows how chaotic group work can be - especially in a group with over three people. Everyone has a different vision of what they think the project should be, and then everyone tries to take over so their idea can come to life. When the group instead agrees to take small bits from each person's idea, everyone low key gets salty about not achieving their vision, yet never admits it. Group work is a cutthroat business; a vicious cycle, if you will. You never want it to be, and you never hope it will be, but someone always ends up a little more dead inside afterwards. Will this project end in unity, or complete chaos? Stay tuned to find out.