Blog 4

“Art is not always about pretty things. It’s about who we are, 

what happened to us, and how our lives are affected.” 

- Elizabeth Broun

After hearing Alison Kobayashi’s creative process, I was in awe at the dedication as well as the amount of time that went into creating a piece like Say Something Bunny. In the last lecture we discussed the creative approaches artists can take with their work. The piece that stood out to me the most was Bear71, an interactive web documentary about grizzly bears. Bear71 and Say Something Bunny, take a simple piece of work and execute it in such a way which elevates the entire piece. The ingenuity behind these two pieces ties in with my takeaway from this course; every story can be filmed/edited/told in many ways.

It’s important to combine pieces with different interests which may not relate. As a computer science student, this is something that I’ve been struggling with for years. Instead of solely being a programmer, or just an artist, I have the potential to integrate one with the other. And after seeing Alison’s presentation, I am now inspired to step out of my box in the ways I tell a story as well as my career choice.

So even though I may not be a filmmaker in the future, this course has equipped me with the tools to express myself in a new medium.