Aliens coming to earth... maybe.

On Wednesday's class, we started off by having to tell a story in 3 drawings. We couldn't use words and  at the end we would vote on whose was the best. Each drawing had to be clear of what our story was. So we go into groups of three and had 30 minutes to come up with a concept and actually drawing the story out. I got paired up with Susie and Carrie, my classmates.
We began to develop a story of aliens going to earth from their mystery planet. The aliens come to earth and see our planet full of the things we hated. We started to brain storm ideas of things we didn't like: naming celebrities, political issues, entertainment junk etc. etc. It was hard to portray these without using words or even to draw a celebrity that everyone in our class could recognizable. So we just stuck to using logos, which can be very recognizable to everyone. We stuck to using McDonald's logo. So when the aliens are close enough to see earth, in the last frame, you see the aliens taking off back to their planet.
After our timers went off in class, we than judged each other's drawings. There was 8 set of drawings on the board. Some were okay, some weren't very clear. The group that won, was a drawing of a couple sitting on the bench with a love sign in between. The next shot shows the same couple pregnant sitting on the bench. The last shot shows the couple holding the baby on the same bench. It was an okay depiction but I feel like it won because of the love depicted in the drawings. It got to peoples emotions and I believe that most people tend to choose things based on their feelings. I choose a set on drawings that showed a girl tripping and her breaking her phone. The drawings were good, it's mainly why I choose it.
In the end Jimmy, my professor, ended up saying ours was the best concept and was depicted very clearly. I thought so as well because ours was very simple and clear cut. He explained that the winners story was a boring, not that well drawn drawing.

The second half of the class we were introduced our final project which is a 2-3 minute video due at the end of the quarter. It's week 8 here at CSULA and the quarter ends at week 10 with a finals week following that. Don't understand where time went. Any ways, we suppose to make a video that explains our environment, the people and issues. Basically, it's how we live on this earth. We were showed a video of an example, not really anything he wanted. I think Jimmy does this because he wants people to be real creative and not influenced by any examples people have done in the past. It's kinda of tougher this way to think of an idea but I guess it does leave a clear mind for us to develop a concept. I have one, maybe two at the most ideas of what I want to do. I wonder how this project for myself is going to turn out. We shall see.


-Leslie


btw, here's a picture of our project!