Day 8

Lie to me?

This was interesting. One of the exercises we did in class was to lie to everyone in class, how awesome is that? It wasn’t all about lying, as we all know by now Jimmy has a purpose for everything he has us do for the class. The main reason for the exercise was to practice our public speaking skills and to pay attention to our body language.

We had to think of two truths about ourselves and a lie to say in front of the class. While you were up there the class would be judging you to see what your body language was like; if it showed that you were nervous, confident, shy, or comfortable. At the end of our little presentation the class would try to figure out what the lie was. I’m not great at lying. My lie was that I new “how to do an oil change”. Maybe if I had chosen a smaller white lie I could have gotten away with it. While I was trying to choose my truths and lies I found it easier to come up with more lies. I’m not going to lie, cause I’m bad at it, but I wasn’t too comfortable with having all the eyes on me. I even said to the class to “stop staring at me” at one point. Obviously, as a graphic designer I need to become more comfortable with presentations and be conscious of my body language.

The next part of class we had to present our images with the ten headlines. This time around I took it more seriously. I had a list of about 25 or so, each time I came out with a new headline it would cancel the previous one. I honestly just looked at the image once, kept it in mind and then began writing. Once I had a good amount of headlines I would look at my image and see which ones worked the best. I feel I did a much better job with these headlines than the ones I did on the previous assignment. For Wednesday we have to do the opposite, 1 headline 10 images. Why do I feel this will be difficult ?