#8

Watching movies and then talking about them or framing through tem help me a a lot in this class. Seeing the mistakes in road runner and being told to notice how much little stuff moved in the short film work was very interesting. When we don’t talk about the movies or shows that we watch I sometimes get lost in their entertainment and don’t walk away with much. I sometimes feel that taking up the class period with watching the exercises is a waste of time. I’m not learning from watching the other students work. It’s fun though, I liked the loading bar of a sperm going towards an egg a lot, but I didn’t learn anything from it. I would maybe look at other peoples exercises if there was a link to them but probably not all of them

The advice we received early in the semester about not caring what other people think about our own work because it’s ours was good advice. Thinking that way has made me more confident in my ideas. Even though if no one laughed at my ideas I would probably feel a little sad. Presenting ideas to the class is pretty good. I wish that more students gave feedback though. I’m guilty of sitting their quietly myself but I think that feedback is some awesome stuff.

The kids who often make comments in class hinder me, whether they are funny ones or just weird. It makes me feel like I’m more in a relaxed happy environment instead of a learning one. I guess its good to feel relaxed but I think that feeling pushes me to text more than I should during lecture.

Dropping some exercises have helped me learn more not only in this class, but in all of my classes. The work load freaked me out; I couldn’t focus because I was spending so much time thinking about what to do for each exercise and how to do it. I was putting this class first which hurt my other classes. I’m really glad that there is a chance to redo assignments. Even though the exercises were helping me learn by doing them now I feel like I have more time to devote to better work. I couldn’t do exercise number 5, I did half of it but I was sick, I had a history test, and a sound design project  that week so I just didn’t have the time or energy to do it. I learned a lot about key framing for that exercise and I’m pretty excited about finishing it.