Last week:
Me: hey is it okay if I prep a couple sculptures to work on over break? I want to get more sculptures in my portfolio
SFX instructor: Oh yeah go ahead, that sounds like a great idea! Definitely want to get some more sculpture in your portfolio if that's what you want to do as a career
Today (after evaluating my life-sized skull sculpture):
SFX instructor: yeah keep doing anatomy sculpts like this. If you want you can borrow one of the little anatomy men and do a sculpture of it over break. Or just sculpt an ear, sculpt a nose, things like that
Me: oh well I already have those two other sculptures prepped to work on over break
SFX instructor: those are great but if you really want to work in an FX shop you should always be working on anatomy
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Idk what the moral of this story is going to be but I was reminded of something that happened while I was in college.
This was in a public speaking class, and the teacher wanted to make us practice verbal communication by separating us out into little groups of 3/4 students and giving us prompts for which we needed to come up with as many idea/responses to within 5 minutes as possible.
Now. I don't know why she thought that was an appropriate way to teach Verbal communication, because my group would have 20-30+ unique ideas, while every other group had 5 or 6. We Lapped every other group. And this is because I'm Mute. I can't talk. at 17 I was already incapable of speaking loud enough to be heard in an active classroom like that.
so my group just. Didn't talk. We each put our heads down and Banged out as many ideas as we each individually could, and just crossed off duplicates when it came time to count. because verbal communication just slowed you down in that kind of task. We didn't have to make Good ideas, just a Lot of them.
And anyways that was the 1 day of class I got a good grade bc the college wouldn't accept a doctor's note with the words 'vocal paralysis' and 'extensive nerve damage' on it as evidence as to why I, a mute, should be excused from the class that required you to be able to talk
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