I got a job today. It's just a small 6/7 hour part-time thing to get me some more money during my masters. My parents are willing to support me, but they've already given so much that I want to show that I have my own initiative too. It's working at the university in the journalism department's media equipment store. Not a bad job with alright pay at £7.65 p/h (that's roughly $11.57). I've got three big deadlines looming. My essay on ''genre's impact on the creator'' is coming along well; I'm 700 words from the specified word count. My 10 minute composition is also half-way done and is sounding quite nice. However, the collaborative projection mapping project I'm doing is not going well. The artist who is supposed to be making the geodesic skull on to which we'll project is proving very unreliable and the animator and I can't start until the skull design is finalised. It's going to be tight getting 6+ minute of quality experience finished in time. I'm still confident we'll manage it though. Thankfully the deadline for that one was extended by a week.
Very curious what "genre's impact on the creator" means. Let me guess: when one chooses to create within a genre, one has to work within the constraints of the genre? For example, if you choose to create a sculpture, you have to work in three dimensions? Is that it? Also, I am noting that the collaborative project depends on an artist, an animator, and yourself. I am wondering on the agreements among the collaborators regarding communication, commitment, trust, deadlines, and so on. Many projects in school and workplaces involve collaboration, but the groundrules of collaboration are often implied and not made concrete. Always interested in discussing this. Anyway, good luck with your deadlines and congrats on the job.
It's to do with how genre is much more than simply a taxonomic system of catergorisation. It is fact an aspect of social function. Acting as a codified framework of 'etiquette' between creator and audience, it becomes a plethora of subconscious expectations, rhetorical methods, and creative constraints to form a concept capable of great impact on the creation of artistic works. I don't want to say too much more as I haven't finished or handed in the work yet, but that's it in a nutshell. Haha, yes, this is most likely the source of the issue here. It was actually the animator who initially employed the skills of the artist, so I presumed he had briefed her on all the necessary ground rules and whatnot. But apparently things weren't so clear as I'd hoped. Oh well, it just gives some more stuff to write about in the assessment blog we have to do.groundrules of collaboration are often implied and not made concrete.