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Tutorial Activity 6: Pitch Perfect!

Delving right into it, the following is my elevator pitch:

Hi, my name is Obama Carina Khan, an Environmental Biology major from Ryerson University. I am well versed in all things Biology spanning from animal dissection to soap making. And like soap, I’m easily moldable and always on the lookout for new experiences!

To prepare, I asked my friends in Finance and they helped me get a good grasp on the practice of elevator "pitching." However, their examples were geared towards industry individuals and/or advocating for a product or idea. So I did some further research on "general" pitches, looked at infographics, and took notes on some examples of what I thought was "good."

Then, I chose an audience for my "elevator pitch" i.e., someone influential in my field, perhaps a recruiter or an HR personnel reviewing internship applications. After that, I was still pretty unmoved so I looked through my bio's for my professional accounts, and my ResearchGate account really inspired me.

So I wrote a one-line introduction and talked about my passions and qualifications in the second line. For my last line, I chose to describe it as a "hopeful outro," i.e., conveying my interest and sincerity so that the message is efficiently delivered to my target audience (and hopefully they're interested enough to continue the conversation).

Additionally, to further clarify my "moldable" statement, I meant to emphasize my adaptable nature (no matter the environment).

However, I can already see room for improvement as I was very broad (and perhaps, unnecessarily comical) in my "elevator pitch." However, that was just me being me and what I really wanted to say is subtitled in the gif below.

In a GIF made by @/TomAndHarrisonGifs, Actor Tom Holland says, "What can I say, my brain's a sponge, and it thirsts for knowledge."

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tutorial 6 || blender guru 

donut with table

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Tutorial 6 - Shading and head proportion

Today’s tutorial went through shading and the proportion of the head. I’ve learnt the names of different parts of the shaded areas. More importantly, I found that separating the object into different sections is easier to classify the level of darkness of brightness. 

On the other hand, talking about proportion of the head, I think they are many interesting facts. For example, the gap between both eyes tend to be about the same size of the eye itself, the corners of the mouth tend to be in the line with the middle of the eye, etc. With these measurements, I can draw a face (or a head) more easily while having the right proportion. 

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Facebook and Twitter: Blurring the International Lines

Facebook and Twitter combined have over 1.6 billion active users. That's a staggering number when you consider both have been in existence for less than ten years. They are available in over 70 languages, and are accessed in almost every country on the planet. Social networking is allowing the world to be more connected than ever before, but not only is it connecting nations it is starting to create an international-cyber nation. People who use social media can connect and communicate with others all over the world, people whom they may never have met or never will meet face-to-face. It allows a form of friendship that would likely never exist without it. Instant messaging, photo sharing, webcam, tweets and pokes (though does anyone even know the point of pokes?) are all used for real-time communication with people locally and internationally, and these functions are helping to break down long-standing communications boundaries. Once upon a time, before the telegram, international communication was slow, difficult, expensive and lacking in detail. With the advent of the telegram and the telephone came more instantaneous communication, and then the Internet became the modern pinnacle of this global reach technology. People could send a message, then their voice, then a video, then all three on the one platform. And that's where social media is excelling in this regard. It's a platform of communication with multiple options and ways of functioning. Those of Generation Y who spend a large portion of their time online, and forming their online profile, have created a social media population. People who use Facebook and Twitter are rarely defined by where they physically live, rather that the are simply part of the respective user bases. Someone who lives in Australia can regularly contact someone in Sweden; someone in Germany to someone in Brazil etc but these geographical differences don't matter when they are both using the same communication platform. They may as well be in the same place as far as basic communication is concerned. The social, geographical, and cultural differences between these people are no longer so relevant when they placed together in one (albeit enormous) group. And with that, never before in history has a group the size of Facebook have been so able to communicate with each other so readily. The thought that over a billion people technically have the ability to communicate with each other at any time is staggering. We can communicate with people all over the globe at the touch of a button today. While online communication still may not be held in as high social regard as the face-to-face, with the rate at which people are becoming users of social media, who knows when instant messaging may become just as important or acceptable as the way we connect?

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This shows the automation of amplitude (and in one case panning) that I used in the mix. The automation was to make sure I got desired sounds to punch through the mix at certain points, allowing and creating tension. (Use of minor/major chords also helped in this effect). (Amplitude is in reference to tutorial 6)

-Colin Bunyan, Dec 15th 2011, LMU Headingley-