Apparently, I fail at storytelling.
So, I dropped Evil FIG Class of DOOM.
Basically I thought it would be like we hung out and kind of worked on iLife (which is a Mac-run movie making thing for freshmen. Problem: they never actually showed us how to use the programs, so I dunno how the hell we were supposed to make a movie). I also thought it would be time to discuss what we wanted to do and maybe explore some basic stuff. I don't know.
Instead it's an actual CLASS, with ASSIGNMENTS and EVIL. My iLife partner hated me because I wasn't doing anything or thinking about doing anything (though she got slightly more understanding when a friend of mine informed her that I'd been occupied with the stuff with my TKD instructor, but not by much). And I had missed a ton of meetings that were apparently (???) mandatory. Not like half of us had any idea of that. I mean, meetings for a VOLUNTARY learning newspaper, when most of us aren't even in print, and our crappy beginner's articles are mandatory? WHAT?)
I hated it. I wanted to drop it. I decided I was going to stick with it because I didn't want to leave my partner alone, but--as it turns out--she was thinking the exact same thing. Cool. I dropped it, and she's got a meeting with her advisor tomorrow. I don't know who my advisor is, and maybe it worked that I did it online, but I'll have to figure it out and email him/her to make sure.
But before we realised that we both wanted to drop, we went over some of our ideas. Or rather, I went over mine. Her contribution was to say that she didn't understand my storytelling.
See, when I write, I like to leave out a lot of information. I don't like to explain stuff. I find it easier to show an event through the eyes of the people involved and not have a big huge infodump. I mean--one of my things was basically drinking coffee in Starbucks makes people frozen, or maybe that time works differently in Starbucks than the rest of the world. No, I don't explain it. Does it need an explanation? Not really. I mean, how DO you explain something that is entirely in the perspective of confused people that this is happening to? Have a random person show up and proceed to explain complexities of Starbucks and Starbucks' coffee in regards to the space-time continuum? Get a quantum physics book from the library and proceed to rattle off equasions that explain exactly HOW this stuff is happening?
My other random bit of awesomeness was basically this freshman, on campus, and lots of confusion and people and obvious awkwardness. It is interspersed with shots of chess. Now, I've played chess a few times, but I don't actually know how pieces can move--I had to have my opponent remind me. But I kind of liked the idea. So, there was a white pawn and a black knight, and they were moving towards each other, and at the end the freshman is standing in the middle of the street, crossing to the building her class is in, then she looks up and sees a bus coming towards her. Chess game. Knight takes pawn. Credits roll.
It doesn't make that much sense. It has absolutely nothing to do with what we were supposed to make. But I think it'd make a bloody awesome film.
But my partner didn't think so. I need a PLOT. I need explanation. WHY is the chess game there? (LOL IT'S A METAPHOR) and WHAT happens when the knight takes the pawn? What does that MEAN? WHY IS THERE NO EXPLANATION?
"...er. Because there doesn't need to be?"
"YES THERE DOES, I DON'T GET IT."
I am SO FUCKING GLAD I don't have to deal with this anymore. Bye-bye, class of doom, and good fucking riddance.
(Funny thing? Most of us have dropped. The class had 18 people the first class. By the second, we had 15. By the third, we had 8. Now, after me, my partner, and a girl down the hall drop, there'll be 5.)
Basically I thought it would be like we hung out and kind of worked on iLife (which is a Mac-run movie making thing for freshmen. Problem: they never actually showed us how to use the programs, so I dunno how the hell we were supposed to make a movie). I also thought it would be time to discuss what we wanted to do and maybe explore some basic stuff. I don't know.
Instead it's an actual CLASS, with ASSIGNMENTS and EVIL. My iLife partner hated me because I wasn't doing anything or thinking about doing anything (though she got slightly more understanding when a friend of mine informed her that I'd been occupied with the stuff with my TKD instructor, but not by much). And I had missed a ton of meetings that were apparently (???) mandatory. Not like half of us had any idea of that. I mean, meetings for a VOLUNTARY learning newspaper, when most of us aren't even in print, and our crappy beginner's articles are mandatory? WHAT?)
I hated it. I wanted to drop it. I decided I was going to stick with it because I didn't want to leave my partner alone, but--as it turns out--she was thinking the exact same thing. Cool. I dropped it, and she's got a meeting with her advisor tomorrow. I don't know who my advisor is, and maybe it worked that I did it online, but I'll have to figure it out and email him/her to make sure.
But before we realised that we both wanted to drop, we went over some of our ideas. Or rather, I went over mine. Her contribution was to say that she didn't understand my storytelling.
See, when I write, I like to leave out a lot of information. I don't like to explain stuff. I find it easier to show an event through the eyes of the people involved and not have a big huge infodump. I mean--one of my things was basically drinking coffee in Starbucks makes people frozen, or maybe that time works differently in Starbucks than the rest of the world. No, I don't explain it. Does it need an explanation? Not really. I mean, how DO you explain something that is entirely in the perspective of confused people that this is happening to? Have a random person show up and proceed to explain complexities of Starbucks and Starbucks' coffee in regards to the space-time continuum? Get a quantum physics book from the library and proceed to rattle off equasions that explain exactly HOW this stuff is happening?
My other random bit of awesomeness was basically this freshman, on campus, and lots of confusion and people and obvious awkwardness. It is interspersed with shots of chess. Now, I've played chess a few times, but I don't actually know how pieces can move--I had to have my opponent remind me. But I kind of liked the idea. So, there was a white pawn and a black knight, and they were moving towards each other, and at the end the freshman is standing in the middle of the street, crossing to the building her class is in, then she looks up and sees a bus coming towards her. Chess game. Knight takes pawn. Credits roll.
It doesn't make that much sense. It has absolutely nothing to do with what we were supposed to make. But I think it'd make a bloody awesome film.
But my partner didn't think so. I need a PLOT. I need explanation. WHY is the chess game there? (LOL IT'S A METAPHOR) and WHAT happens when the knight takes the pawn? What does that MEAN? WHY IS THERE NO EXPLANATION?
"...er. Because there doesn't need to be?"
"YES THERE DOES, I DON'T GET IT."
I am SO FUCKING GLAD I don't have to deal with this anymore. Bye-bye, class of doom, and good fucking riddance.
(Funny thing? Most of us have dropped. The class had 18 people the first class. By the second, we had 15. By the third, we had 8. Now, after me, my partner, and a girl down the hall drop, there'll be 5.)