Videography Analysis

I have always loved and appreciated art, but I never considered myself being an artist or even capable of being an artist. I am a writer, photographer, and videographer, and while I experience those mediums as expressive and personal, I have made excuses as to why my products are not art: “even creative writing is formulaic and academic, therefore it is not art; my photography relies more on technical skill and internal math, therefore it is not art; my videography captures a subject but is not the subject itself, therefore it is not art.” Taking this class has forced me to reconsider what I understand to be art, and also what it would mean for me to be an artist. I am still trying to figure it out exactly, but I think I have made important progress. That progress is as result of certain lessons I received throughout this course. Recently, a woman I do not know on campus saw me with my portfolio. She said to me “oh, you’re an artist.” I was immediately embarrassed and replied, “I just pretend …show more content…
But the difference is that I can write an entire story from start to finish in a few hours and be done with it, something I cannot do with a drawing. The next lesson from this course has therefore been patience. For someone who takes at least an hour and a half every day to get ready, I have remarkably short patience. I walk fast, I write quickly, and hate having to take more than one try to get anything done. Unsurprisingly, I tried to use the same quick approach to drawing. Equally unsurprisingly, my drawings were coming out terribly. I realized that I would have to take a different approach to drawing if I wanted to create something I would be proud of, not just something that would just technically meet the assignment goals. That meant sketching before I made marks with my pen, penciling, erasing, re-penciling, re-erasing, re-re-penciling… you get the