Today in class, we had a sort of a kind of critique session on the homework we had to turn in that day. Our homework had been to design nine different game concepts. It wasn't really a critique but more of a close up presentation where everyone in the class was looking at your work while you presented your nine concepts. Jimmy Moss would then either say it was a good idea, or if it needed more work, or if the idea was boring or had been done before. Before we started though, he went into a lecture of writing words next to a drawing that weren't necessary. Jimmy told us about words that compels us to write down when it's not needed. He had mentioned this after noticing that someone's drawing of a die had the words "dice" above the drawing. The drawing of the die, however, had been already obvious to it's audience that it was a die. As artists, we should be able to draw or design something clear enough that it wouldn't need words. It made us more aware of our drawings and what things we would write down because after he said that, everyone started shuffling through their concepts to see if they had written unnessary words to describe our drawings.
The first person who had their concepts laid out on a table for all of the class to see, it felt terrifying to see some of their ideas get shot down. As he went through the ideas from students who had done nine concepts, he gave out a lot of pointers and advice towards ways of presenting, especially when it got to my turn. I think though that I'm just not too used to speaking aloud that I had quite a problem pitching my idea. He mentioned at one point that when pitching an idea, you're to use something called an Elevator pitch. An elevator pitch is to simply define what it is that you're trying to pitch. I think that I found this difficult because it was something I never practiced. I also had a really bad habit of saying words like "um" "just" and "like." Something I ought to practice not doing.
I remembered also that a student who presented before me when handing his concepts to Jimmy, he had said that he had been afraid of what Jimmy would do. Jimmy then proceeded to tell us to not be afraid because though he seemed harsh now, he can be quite gentle talking to you one on one. He encouraged us to speak with him. He also informed us that other clients can be worse, which is something that I don't doubt. The same student, when presenting, had variations towards some of his ideas, which Jimmy liked and showed that when presenting ideas of variations of ideas, you could pitch it in the way where you would mention that the idea could also apply in different ways.
In a way, I was glad that he had gone through our concepts the way he did. It helped give an idea of how clients can be in the real world as well as giving out pointers towards presentations.
Adjectives:
Inopportune - caught at a bad time or inconvenient time.
Generous - kind
Cozy - comfortable
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