Author: Samantha (Page 2 of 11)

Samantha Canales

Artist Statement

Last year, in April 2021, my family had been affected by COVID19, my parents and my three sisters had tested positive for the virus the same week. I was out of the country and was not exposed to the virus when they were together. So, this worldwide pandemic is something that up brings most of my curiosities involving families, education, and much more. It has been extremely stressful for families with significant worries about the health of family members, financial instability, social isolation, and increased caregiving burdens associated with having children at home.

The purpose of me making this video for an older audience was to reassure parents and families that they’re not alone in how they’re feeling regarding the education of their children, and how important it is to take care of each other during this pandemic not only physically but emotionally and mentally. Also, students in college could gain a lot from this video and understand what their parents are going through. Young adults may also struggle to adapt to new social routines, from choosing to skip in-person gatherings, to consistently wearing masks in public. It is also important to support young adults in taking personal responsibility to protect themselves and their loved ones.

The appeals that I have decided to use would be the three categories of persuasive advertising techniques. Talking about the credibility of the information being portrayed and given to an older audience and the emotions through the actual real-life experiences of families and young people that go through when they were having difficulties studying and learning. The interview is one of the most popular genres in contemporary journalism. In common parlance, a one-on-one conversation between an interviewer and the person getting interviewed is known as the interviewees. I see my project on a more serious website where you find information and I see my project on the website CNN. CNN is very informative regarding COVID-19 and its effects also reliable resources from doctors and many experiences from people who overcame the virus and how their families have been affected for their whole life

This interview was super new to me, I had a pretty good idea of how I wanted it to be shown, but then reality hit me, and I had to become familiar not only with my research but with video editing. I realized that this interview had more it takes than anything I have ever done. It was very hard for me to be serious around my sisters and take seriously the information I was trying to portray. But then I realized I was informing my audience about something very serious that also is very important to me, the people may know where to seek help as well as bond with other people knowing that they were alone feeling a certain type of way.

I feel like in my interview we had a very good flow of the conversation, of the questions and the answers, I really like the intro and the background music, which made it seem real as if it were a real newscast. What I had to change was the fact that I could not be in the interview two times, I had my sister participate as a mother which made it even harder for me to concentrate and record the video, but it turned out well in my opinion. I did not throw out my original idea altogether, I thought my idea was well, it would persuade the audience to look for help when needed, and it symbolized the union of a society going through a pandemic, as parents, and as working people. I turn to help at newscast news channels, and research papers, I would also view experiences that people went through during pandemics, especially difficulties and obstacles. I panic when it was time to upload the video, the video is too long for the site. What I did about it was I emailed my video to my professor.

My interview, in my opinion, went phenomenal, the interviewer started to become a little harder to play, and I had to use a more serious tone and a formal appearance, and a serious set or background. I would have liked to film with a better background, it could have been the skyline of the city. I feel like based on how hard or easy it was pretty in the middle, what I would have done differently is also have a different background for the interviewee. Possibly out in the street wearing a mask and the kids around her, would have made it more believable, connecting the mother as a character to the audience as well. This is honestly very surprising as a college project because I have never done this before so that was a challenge, I see this as a tool in the future on how to act behind a camera and how to act as an interviewer, take things seriously when things need to be done. It has truly been a new experience that cost frustration but overall, I’m happy with the outcome.

https://youtu.be/7ZpkH7bxyDk

How do you think you did on your Unit 3 project?

This new genre project overall has been a learning process, almost like a fixer-upper. Every time I think I have finished my video I seem to find more pieces of information or details I have overlooked and I begin to record another scene or a different view for my interview. I have taken a journalism class in high school and you could say that class has helped me show different tones in the video and how to interview someone, but I have never actually filmed an interview and starred in it being two different people. I enjoyed filming this video and writing about the idea and how my idea for this research came about. The effort is there, all I’m aiming for now is to improve my grammar in the artist statement and hope the audience that I have chosen for this interview gets impacted and moved by the interviewee, also perhaps learning from this film, new information that they have not approached.

1. “That difference in attitude is the difference between amateur and professional, inexperience and experience, journeyman and craftsman. Peter F. Drucker, the prolific business writer, calls his first draft “the zero draft”–after that he can start counting. ”  This is something very important that caught my eye, experience comes with the way someone is reviewing their own work. Sometimes when you submit a paper and you read it before submitting it sounds like you could have done better, and that’s when reviewing and rewriting comes in.
2. .”Writers must learn to be their own best enemy. They must accept the criticism of others and be suspicious of it; they must accept the praise of others and be even more suspicious of it. Writers cannot depend on others. They must detach themselves from their own pages so that they can apply both their caring and their craft to their own work. ” In my opinion, if you accept criticism from others and especially those who have more experience in the English language you’ll be open to improving your work. Being one owns the greatest judge in writing is something that is essential when it comes to revision.
3. “Most people think that the principal problem is that writers are too proud of what they have written. Actually, a greater problem for most professional writers is one shared by the majority of students. They are overly critical, think everything is dreadful, tear up page after page, never complete a draft, see the task as hopeless.” The writer must learn and value one’s writing and form of portraying. But  writers must never give up and think that the task is always possible. A side note, is I always take breaks when I’m writing. Once you’re tired of writing, take a break and come back when your mind and eyes have been refreshed.