Week 3 - The Visual Critic/Creative Writing Techniques

Our lecture was quite interesting today, started off my watching a clip from Ice Age which related to obsession, I thought it was a pretty good example! To obsess means to be continually preoccupied.
The lecture also involved a bit of psychology about visual awareness which was something I hadn't really looked at before.
Then they went on about how to become a visual critic and I noted down the points they mentioned which include;

• use your voice
• have an opinion
• have a view or make a judgement
• comment on the quality or worth
• this can be based on ideas, experience, intuition, knowledge, enthusiasms.
• share your ideas
• discuss & debate
• choose a topic - participate
• look - switched on
• receptive - receive something
• receptor
• record - always carry a camera/notebook
• read - know your subject
• Routine - make it habitual

Later on in our seminar we did some creative writing techniques, I was a little nervous about this at first as in the past I haven't been the best at writing, however once the task was over I felt much more confident and I think that is also due to having my own blog for the past year which has given me the chance to improve my writing. 

Our first task was to write about 'Who I am?' and we had 2 minutes to write. As you can see I had a rather odd ending!

Then we had to write about 'The Death of the High Street.' and 'The Death of Print.', for these two pieces we had 3 minutes to write.

 
Then we were asked to look at an article from a magazine we brought in, I chose the article called 'Trolls are so last season' in Company. From the article we had to pick out the tone of voice, style of writing and core demographic that the article was aimed at.

Then in a group of 3, between us we had to pick one magazine and write another 3 minute piece about either 'The Death of the High Street.' or 'The Death of Print.' and write it in the style of the chosen magazine. I chose to write about 'The Death of the High Street.'