Failure Paper

           So far, I have completed five micro projects with several techniques such as Photoshop, imovie and Garageband. The first ten specified images, the unique way to somewhere, the objects identifying my own personalities, the video recording the sound and the expression of action words are so interesting and thoughts-provoking that arouse me to be creative. I actually tried to come up something special and interesting; however, there still exist a difference between what I wanted my final project to be and what it eventually becomes.

   Candidly speaking, the biggest failure this semester is the micro project 4. I did intend to make my video amazing and fabulous but what I did is kind of normal. I am not satisfied with both my idea and the technical execution. The place I chose is my dorm and I recorded the sounds of door opening, water boiling, page turning and keyboard typing. Too much sound I chose but my final video is still not so intriguing. I think it is due to my boring thought of picking such sounds and I did not process it in a funny way. I just added some effects of mixing sounds and sound tracks, put some transition effects and nice-looking but useless opening and ending scenes. From this failure project, I understand that good artworks need both creative thoughts and excellent digital art-making techniques. An amazing idea leads the art-making procedure to the right direction, and mastering nice techniques can make details better and perform the artwork in a right way of expressing its initial idea. This failure encourages me to think more creatively and improve my digital art making abilities.

   I think the biggest success is definitely acquiring so many digital techniques of making art and actually it is my initial intention of choosing this class. It is really important and exciting for me to learn how to use Photoshop, imovie and Garageband. I enjoy the moment every time I see my final projects with the post processing of these techniques. By roughly learning how to use these, I can almost express what I want my artwork to be, and this biggest success motivates me to take this course next semester to learn more tricks and skills of using them. It cannot be called a big success, but it really means an exciting progress for me and I find my interest in digital art making. It is quite valuable for me, I think.

   If I get a chance of redoing one project, I would choose project 4 without hesitation. I would come up with a much more creative and intriguing idea and visualize it in a more special manner, even with some mysterious, horrific or comedic elements. It should not be as long as the previous one, it can be short but strong enough to give audience the feeling of surprise. Maybe I would pick one common but easily ignored sound and then alter it into a way that audience would not think it could be like that.