For class we had some questions we needed to answer about a secondary mentor. See this is where it gets tricky, I'm currently working on my capstone. Well, last Friday on the 16th, after I talked to Powers he told me to stick with a comic. Doing just a comic for capstone was okay with him. But it had to be awesome... I can do awesome! This changed the role of the secondary mentor I was looking for though. Instead of looking for those people who specialized in animation, because I already had a mentor who specialized in sequential narrative, now I had to figure out what I was looking for in a secondary mentor. As I was thinking about this, the dynamics of the presentation of my story changed too.
- My capstone idea in 100 words or less. So I got a new brilliant idea. I'm going to create a sequential narrative where the emotion and message of the story is in the medium. I know I'm referencing Marshall McLuhan, but I think it would be an interesting way to convey a fantasy story that is both filled with humor, horror, suspense, perhaps mystery, and coming of age aspects. To have the main story told out right, with an underline story seen perhaps through the medium itself? I can't give you more than that at the moment, it's on the top of my head brewing like a volcano.
- Four key components I was searching for in a mentor. So what do I need as far as a secondary mentor? Someone who can help me think inventively and help me stretch my mind. Someone who has an art background. Someone who doesn't mind the idea of mixing experimental ideas with traditional ideas. And lastly, someone that has a knack for dynamic narrations, sequential narrative, and dynamic characters.
- Three potential mentors from the MAS faculty I would like to approach to discuss my capstone. Also I need to "make sure one of them is someone from whom you have never taken a class," Like I said, humor me. I am a woman on a mission! And since I've already started on my capstone, I hope you don't mind if I took a slight detour from plans. I already have Powers, and I already enlisted the help of Steve Mannhiemer, who is very good at encourage one to think outside the box. And I also enlisted the help of one other, Anita Giddings. She's actually from Herron. I need her help with color theory, composition, and design.
Why I chose them, and what I know thus far:
- Powers is enthusiastic, adaptive, innovative, intuitive, and he asks a certain amount of boldness from his students. I think this is why his head is so big. It's full of strange worlds, and lots of information. He knows what makes good sequential narrative, and how I can keep my readers turning the pages.
- His area of expertise is 2D and 3D gaming (game creation), sequential narrative, narration in general, characters, virtual reality, environment, and creatures.
- He expects professional grade work, and will not let a student show a B level project.
- He's currently at his limit with students he is mentoring.
- Mannhiemer because his innovative, mind bending techniques help one reach beyond their potential, and your comfort zone. I think he will help to enhance my
- He's also a studio artist, a journalist, strategist
- Was once a faculty member at Herron. Added bonus.
- Said he would help me as a Secondary Mentor
- Giddings is a professor I chose from the Herron school of art. I chose her based what she says in her bio. "The content of my work deals with the systems that we use to order our environment. How we explain the phenomena of the natural world and what that has to say about our relationship to larger ideas interests me greatly. I try to depict the abstract ideas that are associated with concepts of time, natural events and how we visualized our relative physical position in the world. My visual tricks mimic the tricks we use to tell ourselves that we know what is going on." I felt with her nurturing nature, her background (she's actually written books on painting techniques), she would be able to help me with color scheme, composition, and help the images in my background/foreground say more.
Together it works something like this:
Someone in New Media ---------> Someone New Media/Herron Art-----------> Someone Herron Art
Full New Media Perspective Someone with a foot in each door Full Herron Perspective
I'm hoping this will give me the creative, innovative, profession, refined edge I'm looking for. Plus cycling it through three people, and having it filter through critiques might give it an extra added boost?
This begs the question though... Can you have to many mentors?
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