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.