Month: September 2015

English 1101 Project #1 Process

In this project I know what I wanted to include by reading the instructions. I knew from there as our goal of this project is to introduce ourselves and also interpreted our OPENLAB avatar. I realized there were a few things I had to eliminate such as some personal private information. Enthusiastic to promote our own is not wrong, but it would be much better if we could be more temperate. I didn’t take much care of the composition because of everything already said in the instruction. It told us we need 4 paragraphs and what should we wrote about in each paragraph. I had let my classmate Efy to check my draft and I got a few good suggestions from her properly. She told me to add in some details of how people would misinterpret my avatar and how. As I read my classmate’s project and giving feedback I also got inspirations for my own project as well. We are always improving by absorbing others ideas. I spend 10 mins for both brainstorming and outlining, the time had increasing to two hours when I did drafting and revising, and for the last step polishing I spend only 20 mins. It took me a long time to finish up this project, but I also learned a lot as well when I wrote it. This project helps to introduce myself to others and also gave me a chance to recognizing more about what I was thinking about myself.

 Jingyi Jiao (Jingyi) was born in China, came to US when she was 13 years old. Before she came to live in here, she only know the easiest sentences for greeting just like “hello” or “how are you”. So it took her a hard time and a long period to try to communicates with others. Her English is still improving. Hopefully, she would become voluble and loquacious in English after she graduate college. She graduated from Midwood High School locates next to the Brooklyn College. During the time to make a final decision for the college that she had to enrolled to, she abnegated the Brooklyn College, and chosen City Tech. Jingyi love to draw the manga, to read manga, and to watch anime began from childhood. Even many years later, the passion for it never changed. She determined her future career must to be related to anime and design, such as animator, manga artist, graphic designer, and or the voice actress for anime only. However, these are her occupation insight before this summer. She is now simultaneously interested in creating a film as well. She got this consideration during this summer when she was volunteering at the creative department of a TV station names NTD ( New Tang Dynasty). As a staff volunteer she went for advertising photography for once with an advertisement crew. The director was stylish, voluble, and with  a strong capability of dictating . She was fascinated with that ability, imagined if that was her, she felt to be a director is a right occupation for her to express her creative and direct ability. So now she adds in a new future career in her consideration list which is the director. Apparently, this would be the reason why she was chosen to enrolled to the City Tech, based on the name of the college, New York City College Of Technology, it obviously indicates they do teach a lot about the computer program usage, which means it also includes the graphic design, film editing and animation courses.

        People could see Jingyi’s aesthetic from this avatar. You might think it is a wired avatar, but she doesn’t think so, she feels ordinary with this kind of antic avatar. The appearance of Jingyi’s avatar is a full shot of a Calico cat who’s acting in a humorous funny position. This is an anime Calico cat. He tightly stuck his face on the camera lens that taking a photo of him. He has a big eyes, small mouse, and a huge puffy face. This is a picture from an anime named Natsume’s Book of Friends, which is one of her favorite anime with healing style. By observing the cat from her avatar, he is a Calico cat likes to do the stupid things, and usually fooling around and making trouble. He also likes to eat a lot and fall in sleep for a long time, day by day never reduced, the appetite leads to his body and face shapes become puffy as what you see how he looks like now. He is lazy, crazy, and comical, but he is also friendly, playful, and sensitive.

        Jingyi’s avatar can be considerate in a few different ways. Some people might misunderstand it as her avatar is just showing how comical, silly, and slothful the Calico cat is, but there actually are more tiny contents in this avatar that you haven’t noticed. Avatar, can be said that is people’s inner reflection. Calico cat stuck on the camera lens is not part of his fooling, it can be defined as he pursues to get closer to the others, wants to make friends, wants to help, and wants to encounter with more people. He desired to catch more attention from the people, so he wouldn’t be alone. 

        Jingyi’s complete profile will convey who she is. What is she good at and bad at, what she doesn’t like and does like, what her career goal is, and what her hobby is. She is trying her best to let her classmates and people to know more about her. Her overall life would never live without anime and manga. She’ll be glad if she got a chance to go to Japan, so she could visit the place where Japanese anime produced and met with those amazing manga artists. Jingyi wishes she could visit there in the near future.