Analysis

What makes a story successful? During my years of learning the rules of fine art, I came to learn that once you knew and understood the rules, it just meant that it was time to learn how to bend them or even break them successfully. Learning technicalities of anything is always good practice, but what separates a technical exercise from a piece of art is how well you use these understandings to express yourself conceptually.

So how well does this apply to story telling, or better yet, how well does this philosophy translate into the commercial world? are we trying to keep things dumbed down all the time?

I always felt that the average person will either like or hate a piece of work, and more often than not now-a-days, people just write it off. Only those who are familiar or have experienced the process can truly benefit from taking in a piece of art. So do we make art for artist and commercials for the common folk? of course, but what does that say about the stories and movies out there today? Writing is still a form of art, mastering of the english dictionary and using it's contents as arsenal to create an experience like no other. But do people just dumb things down now-a-days to make a quick buck. According to what we learned in class last, it seems so, because it doesn't matter how many there is, one can always live off of making horrible slasher films.

what about those who seek nothing but artistic satisfaction? More inportantly, what would be the best life choice at this point? make something inspiring, or make money.

such is the life of those who concider themselves artist.

Gather Around

So this is a blog dedicated to the writings, discussions, and concepts generated in one reference or another by my class called " Writing For Media"

Topics in communication and story telling as well as methods to persuade and convince the audience are crucial, and we can't deny that without a lower educated population, how will the stronger and more intelligent progress. As cruel as that sounds, if said statement wasn't true, then how in the world would Snuggies be so successful? there's a world of people unknowingly ready to be manipulated, and someone will always find a way to make them feel in need.

So to take a step back, I don't consider myself a writer. If I was a writer, I wouldn't resort to such means such as blogger to express my lack of proper grammar and to flaunt my syntax errors. BUT, I do love to tell stories. Inspired by the verbal presentation of epic poetry I believe that a story,though same content, can be told in many different ways. Delivery can be changed depending on purpose, though I also believe that the different ways have to come from the content. In a class last year I heard a quote from Robert Creely where he said,

"For is never more than an extension content."

I think this applies to alot of things, but what happens when someone achieves this? Does that make them successful? Is it actually achievable? Apparently so, because of Snuggies, and other products like the Egg Genie. I think the reason is because at a time when we all feel so helpless and lost with all the problems in the world, people want solutions to thinks they can't be bothered with solving...? maybe, I still will never feel like the voids in my life can be filled with a Snuggie. I can say that I have felt that way of other "material" things.

Freshman year, a friend named Kalei let me listen to a song that her friend made. It was a nice little beat, with a nice build up of bits from a sampled or preproduced sound clip. Once the full sound clip played out it said,

first guy: " Neccessity is the mother of invention"
second guy: " WHAT? no way!
first guy: " whaaaat?"
second guy: " Well, I know I'd never give a child of mine a name like INVENTION!"

damn you Snuggies.