Art 220 Jan 9th

During our 2nd day in Art 220 Concept development, we were taught about Visual Literacy. Visual Literacy is based on the idea of learning how to read, communicate, and understand through pictures. We were shown multiple pictures where the key of this topic was "It's not what you think... It's what you know when you're looking at the image." At first I didn't understand but Mr. Moss explain the pictures from the "eye of a detective." Though it was still hard to understand what he meant, little by little, I started to get it.

After this exercise we were shown a 18 minute clip called "Ted Scott McCloud talks," where Scott talked about the different kinds of styles of comics and referred it from his life story. After, we were given 25 minutes to make a story of our own of why we came to CSULA through 4 different shape panels. Though i was overthinking it, I finished within the 25 minutes limit. Through this learning process we learned how our pictures can show emotion and movement through just telling our story. I thought today was very accurate, and I think after I told the story from my point of view I was able to understand a little better.

Concept Development

Today was my first day of Art 220;Concept Development, where we went over what is going to be learned and the outcomes of the theachings of this class. Before we went over the syllabus, our teacher, Mr. Jimmy Moss started off the class with an icebreaker; 2 truths and a lie game. At first I thought this was to get to get to know everyone in a fun way but it started getting more strange than i thought. While playing I notice evryone was thinking rationally instead of thinking out of the box. (Example : One boy got up and told three statements; He loves the Lakers, he speaks 3 different languages and he hates cats.) Of course many people thought that he speaking in 3 different languages was a lie but it actually was the Lakers because his hat, though it was turned to the side, had the Rockets symbol on it.

Once we finished the game, turned out there was more to it then I thought. One of the subjects that was decribed to be in the course was persuasion and presentaion. There, Jimmy Moss explained that the game wasn't just to get to know everyone but to see how good a person can persuade and present the lie whether it was movement in hands, eye movement and so on. I thought for the first day that it was pretty accurate.  Thats how my first day went in Art 220 concept development.