Coming to an end.

Starting this class, I remember sitting in lab on the first day, going around the room describing who we thought we were and discussing possible aspirations as a media maker. As this semester comes to a close, having discussed the foundations of media making as well as film, I feel that I've come to a clearer decision of what I see myself doing after I graduate college.

What I have most interest in the aspects of media is layout design and editorial work. With this in mind, I would have enjoyed learning a little more about the history and design aspect of layouts and web design as well as a more in-depth analysis of graphic editing programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.

I understand that we only have a limited amount of time to cover new material each lecture but I feel, as a class (and especially those students who enter the class with no experience) only learn the very basics of material and are expected to move onto new material by next class. I don't think we are able to digest enough information to be able to move higher on the media chain.

If you were to ask my opinion about how to change an aspect of the class, I would suggest to focus on fewer but more dense topics of media to discuss in lecture and take about 2 or 3 classes to go over, discuss, and give examples of in detail. This way we have more time in lab applying the principles we had discussed in lecture and we can leave the class with these few things that we have worked hard on and can apply to everyday life. I feel that by next semester when I take higher courses in media that I'll need to go over old material, especially those that involved programming and HTML which I feel is a crucial necessity for modern media since we breezed through it quite quickly this past semester.

However, being a foundations class and a prerequisite for future digital courses, It has helped shaped my ideas towards media making and influenced the direction that I want to take as a media maker.