Final Project and Talk Show in class

On Thursday February 23^rd, Professor Moss explained what our final project is.  At first when I noticed the word “Final” in my class I tend to get stressed.  Hence the reason why Professor Moss put the word project behind it.  He pointed out how the use of words can change feelings towards different goals or assignments.  So our final project is to make a one-minute video of what we think Graphic Design is at Cal State Los Angeles.  We must post this video on YouTube and show it in class.  I am freaking out because I have zero time during the weekend to make a video, yet alone turn it in for a big chunk of my grade.  I am already starting to stress out. 

After I went into panic mode during class, we touched upon another topic in class that was presented to us.  Motivation, where do we find it upon ourselves to have it.  What motivates us?  Well I noticed that some students want instant gratification, which will show immediately in what we do.  Other students work towards a long term goal that is delayed gratification in which will pay off in a later part of their career, whether it is in their career path, life, or any goal that they have in the distant future. 

Professor Moss had a hand full of students sit in front of the class and had them discuss how students felt in regards to instant gratification and delayed gratification.  Then we placed a different set of students who were presented with a different subject which was where do you get your motivation from.  At this point students were sharing where their motivation comes from.  I felt that at this point in the discussion we all had a moment where we actually dug deep in and really thought about how we each come up with our inspiration and motivation to accomplish a task or goal.  I feel that this was a key moment to everyone.  In order to know how or what you are doing, you need to know why.  I feel that knowing why your doing a certain task is essential, because it gives you that self-motivation that you sometimes need.   I feel the class was a perfect example of Concept Development due to the class discussions that we had among ourselves for that day.  We opened up about ourselves and discussed the way we develop ideas and how we come up with certain concepts.

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