Difference between revisions of "Talk:Aaron Miller"
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| + | Great job on your reflection, I liked the way you presented and organized your paper by splitting it into two easy to see and read portions about your self-portrait and fantasy avatar. In your self-portrait avatar I think you did an excellent job describing your thought process when creating your avatar by detailing it in a step by step method. This level of detail shows me that you followed directions and took pains to make your avatar and wrote notes during the building process. Your major point in this reflection regarding your personal avatar is that creating your avatar was difficult because you felt your bias of what you want to look like would be reflected in your avatar. However, you countered for this problem by consistently referring to pictures of yourself. Similarly in your fantasy reflection I thought you did a great job with the detailed summary of the avatar creation process, and where your inspiration to create a fantasy came from and was done specifically by focusing on a character in the film A Night at the Roxbury. However, I felt that your description of how the film applied was very superficial and not analyzed enough to properly explain the reasons how the bouncer in film applies to your character. Furthermore, you go on to explain how all bouncers dress in a certain way. I did not feel that your outside source applied completely in you essay as you could have potentially used any film with a bouncer in it to prove your point and cast doubt upon how useful your source is to aid your point in this reflection. Still, the piece was an informative and well organized reflection of how you created your avatars and I enjoyed reading it. | ||
--Dorothy Bridges | --Dorothy Bridges | ||
Revision as of 19:17, 15 November 2011
I thought the author did a nice job of incorporating details of various issues he had while designing his avatar. Personally, I faced similar issues when it came to ensuring that my avatar was an accurate reflection of myself. The author noted how it was difficult to separate his personal bias towards certain features from the features on his avatar. I thought the most interesting aspect of his reflection was seeing how he constructed somewhat of a rough outline for the avatar and then proceeded to add more detailed characteristics to it later on. This was a unique approach that allowed the author to generate a more realistic and accurate version of himself. In terms of his fantasy avatar, the author seemed to face less difficulties in this area. He generated an avatar that was an opposite of himself and took this part of the assignment to be creative. The author did not seem to reference an outside source that affected how his avatars were generated. Although he did mention his fantasy avatar was influenced by Michael Clarke Duncan's character in A Night at the Roxbury, this seems to be the only reference to an outside source that effected the construction of his avatar. Thus it seems as if an outside source did not really effect the construction of his personal avatar.
--Elijah Thompson
Hi Aaron,
Great job on your reflection, I liked the way you presented and organized your paper by splitting it into two easy to see and read portions about your self-portrait and fantasy avatar. In your self-portrait avatar I think you did an excellent job describing your thought process when creating your avatar by detailing it in a step by step method. This level of detail shows me that you followed directions and took pains to make your avatar and wrote notes during the building process. Your major point in this reflection regarding your personal avatar is that creating your avatar was difficult because you felt your bias of what you want to look like would be reflected in your avatar. However, you countered for this problem by consistently referring to pictures of yourself. Similarly in your fantasy reflection I thought you did a great job with the detailed summary of the avatar creation process, and where your inspiration to create a fantasy came from and was done specifically by focusing on a character in the film A Night at the Roxbury. However, I felt that your description of how the film applied was very superficial and not analyzed enough to properly explain the reasons how the bouncer in film applies to your character. Furthermore, you go on to explain how all bouncers dress in a certain way. I did not feel that your outside source applied completely in you essay as you could have potentially used any film with a bouncer in it to prove your point and cast doubt upon how useful your source is to aid your point in this reflection. Still, the piece was an informative and well organized reflection of how you created your avatars and I enjoyed reading it.
--Dorothy Bridges
