As I observed my subject in the library, I watched his movements, actions, and interactions. I noticed he is a student at Hofstra University, and he is enrolled in Dr. Lay's digital age course. He is a young man, who is lanky yet comfortable with himself. On the outside, he is an average height for a Caucasian male around 19 or 20. He is thin, has tree bark colored brown hair, and wears a faded green hat. His right eye is bruised, and black and green as if he was in a fight recently. The clothing he wore were baggy, and careless looking.
My subject acts as a director, camera man, and script writer. At first he walks from person to person, confidently suggesting they volunteer to participate in his film. As he stops to talk to people, he smiles as if he is almost blushing while he asks yet you can still feel his confidence. His arms swing back and forth while he shifts his weight from foot to foot and snaps his hands together. Now he acts as a camera man, taking direction on the filming layout, he listens attentively, nodding with one arm folded and the other with his hand over his mouth while his eyes closely follow the guy telling him what to do. With the camera in his hand he flows from person to person, as a real camera man would do while filming a movie.
After observing my target, I left with a feeling of his personality. He felt confident, creative, and intelligent. He is the kid who doesn't care what anyone is wearing, and he doesn't care what anyone is wearing. He wants to create something, and that project is what is getting his attention. I see him using his creative efforts in film some day, and that his confidence, and comfortable disposition will only help him get there.
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Brooke I think above all in this description you really captured how confident the person you were observing is. The fact that he doesn't care what he, or anyone else, is wearing is a great point that he in comfortable in his own skin. I feel like someone with a black eye would typically act more reserved and wouldn't like the attention on them, but this person seems to dismantle my assumption. The fact that he is so sociable shows that he has no shame in his shiner.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I like how you took your observations to the next level, you made inferences and even analyzed. You inferred that film making was his passion and what he wants to pursue, and you analyzed that his confidence will help him attain his goals.
I think this was one of the best blogs for this exercise. Not only did you fulfill the requirement to be descriptive, you exceeded and included many metaphoric references that just added to the overall essence of your writing. Every detail makes it that much more interesting to read, versus someone who just states the concrete actions or physical features. When you say, "My subject acts as a director, camera man, and script writer," you don't just leave it at that...you actually go into detailing each aspect that those actions fulfill. I actually disagree with Carson on the black eye, because I feel like a guy who is bold enough to have a black eye would be even more confident or almost excited to tell the story behind it (it seems like the best conversation starter for someone so sociable and confident).
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