Visiting the galleries on tuesday

It was a great lesson again, I learned a lots of things, I didn't know that you/we have to use gloves, and the diff. hangers, how to measure the spaces between pictures, and labels, etc. and of course the artists who were exhibited - I didn't know many of them so it was new for me! I didn't really like the second gallery the 'octogonart' , the space is more narrow than the bigger Várfok...even the smaller Várfok is better than the Octogonart... I liked the last two ( which are opposite each-other ) but they are so much bigger than the others so it wouldn't be fair to compare them. FRom now on I will defenetely have a different eye on the art pieces and the gallery itself when I'll go to an exhibition ! So I hope Im on a good way to look at things not just a viewer but somebody 'professional' ! :)

Visiting the Néprajzi museum

I think it was a really good idea to visit the museum and check the two exhibitions there.
My part was to check the permanent ex. and write down what I like , what I don't like, etc.
Well the exhibition was very useful as a bad example for setting up or keeping updated an exhib. We could phisically feel the dust of the exhibited objects...:D the labels were in a discusting condition ( coming off, torn, etc. ) , and I think I don't have to mention the grammar mistakes in the english labels - BUT at least there were english labels not like at the other "new" exhib. which was titeled 'the others' .
I liked 'the others ' very much, but I found the labels annoying as there were only numbers in front of the objects and the description was glued to the side of the vitrine. And as I said already there were no english labels at all. And the exhibition wasn't about 'the others' , only about showing diff. cultures...hmm, I think they couldn't achieve the concept what they wanted to do originally. But othervise it was really creative and interesting !
So it was a great lesson , I enjoyed it a lot, and learned lots of things !

Exhibition

I would like to comment on two classes :
the one is where we were discussing the different steps to how to create and set up an exhibition. I found it very interesting, and moreover it was really helpful and practical so Im sure we'll all be able to use it in the future. I liked that we were kind of playing games, as it was much more fun like this than if we would have just studied about it...

the other lesson was the one last week, when we dealt with catalogues:
I found it interesting as well , because we need to know what we sould put into it, and how it should look, etc, so that part was really useful,
however I think we were dealing with it for a bit too long, as at the end of the class I felt like that we were just discussing the same things over and over again...

I am really looking forvard to visit the galleries , etc, as I know that we'll hear very useful things, and Im happy that Rita is giving us really practical advices about the whole topic. It's so much better than to just learn about things in theory!

Vid.Prod.

today's class was really interesting about the influences what Mtv is making on the society...It was interesting to think about all the issues...
Although I still don't agree with Elinor about that this series which I mentioned the " True Life " doesn't fit into the whole Mtv image, and I have no idea why actually they are showing it....Elinor said that It's because 'weird things' or scandals are always interesting, but on the other hand I am sure that an average parent wouldn't want that their child sees these episodes ! So these are actually not the typical stereotypes of those scandal-reality shows / series. I really have no idea why they are showing these. Because they are dealing with serious issues, just like this young girl who I mentioned who's doing stripping for an unknown guy who is paying her appartment so that she can go to university... and there was an other story about religions, where they were showing the "life" of two couples. One of the couples had a jehova's whitness girl, and a christian guy, and the other couple was a jewish guy + christian girl... It was about the differences of religions and basically both couples had serious problems becouse of their different backgrounds. The show was not on the side of any of the religions ....
So whatever I just found it interesting that there's a show like that on Mtv...

Vid Prod.

VId Prod :
well so far the last week's lesson for me wasn't so interesting about those live-performances and how to broadcast them as I already participated in some films, and even in live-broadcasting so I knew the background more or less....
My overall experience about the classes so far is that Im really happy to learn about music-videos and I really liked the classes , so Im quite excited about making some videoclips. Although it will be really hard, as it's much more diffucult to edit them to get in sync with the song...I hope we will get the new editing programs because as Phil said we are getting 'real ' , and with Nero it wasn't 'real' at all, moreover the 90% of the class edited the stuff at home with other better programs, and the ones ( like me) who didn't have that possibility were in a much worse situation...
so that's all so far...