FREAK FACTOR

#4 Dont try to fix your weakness 

I agree with his suggesstion that our weakness are also a part of our strengths in that through our weaknesses we can find our strengths. I think that this is valid in that if we focus on our strengths we can do better than if we worry about fixing our weaknesses. He says that if we remediate a weakness, it still doesnt become a strength, and i fully agree with this... someone might be bad at baseball and though they could practice every day to get better they will never be as good at is as someone who is naturally a good baseball player. However i do not agree with the Freak fallacy: that i can be whatever i want to be.... because i truly believe that you can be whatever you want to be as long as it agrees with what you are capible of. 

#8 The power of uniqueness

 The quote that "great spirits have always experienced violent opposition from mediocre minds" by albert einstein... has really rang a bell with me. In my experience i have noticed this happen in multiple circumstances. I want to explain that i feel, have always felt, and will always feel that i have no other purpose on this earth than to be a musician and to provide meaningful music to other people of this world... I grew up being obsessed with music and quickly grew into the metal scene... i was the lead singer and lead guitarist of a metal band for three years and we played over 50 shows together all over ohio, pensylvania, and indiana... It was the best and most fulfilling times of my life. when i got to college the people i hung out with were really into hip hop and i soon followed and gained a love for hip hop. i am now in love with hip hop more than any other music out there... the sole idea of RAP just makes me excited... not even the beat, just rhymic poetry over a beat is intestering to me... so i started rapping. i try to publically rap whenever i can but being a white surburban boy not many people take me seriously... but i will tell you right now there is nothing i care about more in my life other than my rap... it has become a part of me and i aspire to be a legendary lyricist and MC.... the sad thing is that i will enthuisastically rap for certain people and i will get a shitty response that i can tell the person who responded is holding something back. i know that i am good and i know that other people think that i am good but there are always going to be people who can recognize talent but they dont want to acknowledge it because they are afraid of it... and to be honest that is the only thing that to this day still limits me... i want everyone to be able to understand my craft and see it for what it is and not for success... I dont give a shit about being famous. i just want to fucking rap because it has become the main way that i express myself today. 

# 9 putting your quirks to risk..

i wish with all my heart that i could quit school right now and focus on my music career but unfortunately i cant. i saw an interview with James Brown that put it into perfect perspective, he said, " its not about money its about freedom, and unfortunately you have to make money to buy freedom... freedom isint free." i 100% agree with this. we cannot do what we fully want to do unless we are financially stable. Another thing he explains is that we should affiliate with people who are strong where i am weak... and i completely agree... when it comes to business i need to find people who are passionate about what i am passionate about but have different talents that could help me and that person could use the talents that i have to help them... He says to find the freak in others and i completely agree... everyone has a freak... just such few people understand taht. 

COLLAPSUS reflection

COLLAPSUS -->http://www.collapsus.com/

LINK TO COLLAPSUS REVIEW -->  Collapsus review

GAMING REFLECTIONS

I believe that our game was pretty well understood "ET TU DRAGON" It was simple and did not have really any confusing aspects. The only thing that may have not gotten across to the audience would have been if the person does not understand the idea of an RPG and how it works. But however since most people do know i felt that people not only understood our project but were entertained. I think that the strongest point of our presentation was the way that we presented it, as a pitch. I think that our blog could have been stronger if all of the members had the same composure as Pete Fumosa did. He is the reason it was so funny and he just has that type of attitude that is perfect for this kind of thing. If all of us had dressed up and were able to keep our composure like that it would have almost been like a comedy routine with a presentation as the medium.

For ET TU DRAGON the RULES were the most difficult to discuss with others. Because our game is the sandbox type game the character has a free roam, however certain areas are locked and one must complete tasks in order to enter those areas. as for the attributes, one must complete certain tasks, defeat enimies, acquire a skill in order to get attribute points. Essentially the rules of the game are based off of what attributes you have and how much of each attribute you have. Because these attributes control what your player can do, they are the essential feature of the game.

Real Hero/Villain Reflection

John Wheeler's blog --> John's Blog

MOVEMENTS
John's animation was simple and his character, Fulton, who seems to be a version of the grim reaper is a slow moving and simple moving one. The PARALLEL MOVEMENTS that Fulton has is when he flexes his muscles. the only OVERLAPPING MOVEMENTS were when he tossed his sythe to the robot. The character did not show WEIGHT. This video did show some TENSION and RELEASE, The entire animation the audience is waiting for something to happen when Fulton is just standing there, and then finally after flexing his muscles, he snaps his fingers and a robot comes in, For a couple seconds one wonders is fulton will fight the robot, or just what might happend, until the tension is released and he tosses the sythe to the robot letting the audience know that they are both on the same team.

Will Krepop's blog -->  WIll's blog
I couldnt find the link to his hero/villian

Peter Fumosa's Blog --> PETE' Blog

COLOR
Pete did a good job of using colors in order to show character. He used light HUES for Mr. Doctor, the Protagonist, and darker redder Hues for the Antagonist. Unfortunately the characters didnt change in BRIGHTNESS or SATURATION, it was mainly one tone per characther and each color used in the piece had the same BRIGHTNESS and the same SATURATION. As for TEXT and SUBTEXT the person in the audience needs to know who Charles Manson is in order for the animation to make sense and be funny.

HERO/VILLAIN Reflection

LINK TO MY ANIMATION --> heroes/villians
By. Peter Hauptman and Logan Hayes

Superhero

AMERICAN LIFE RADIO ON SUPERHEROES --> http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/178/superpowers

 

SUPERHERO ME LINK -->Superhero me 

    

Blog 7 Video reflection

The video assignment was my favorite assignment of the quarter. Writing out a Screenplay and then having it come to life on screen was a fun and cool experience.  Im currently working on another screenplay for a music video that i cant wait to put on film. Whats really cool about this class is that it made me feel less scared about putting media out there, whatever it is.

Moving on,
Our two videos were completely different from storyline and style. The first was the Star wars video which was really fun for me because i stared in it and wrote the screenplay. Second was the bicycle accident video. The biggest difference between the two videos for me was the Rhythm of each movie. The star wars video had a rhythm of a storyline and there were different things happening that the main character did as opposed to the bicycle video where the rhythm was smooth throughout until the accident happened. it had a simpler rhythm than the star wars video. Closely related to the rhythm of each movie is the movement. what was comparative of each movie was that each accident happened pretty abruptly. Each movie also showed text and subtext. For example when the bottles were given to the main characters in the text it showed and seemed like the girl was just being polite by giving the man the bottle first, however subtextually had a plan and tried to screw the guy over in the end. I consider this subtext because she said one thing but really meant it in a way that was not apparent to the audience, and then it twists