Introductions are always tricky. I found myself telling people things that are very impersonal.

“I have a dog”
“This is my first year of media”

Obviously everyone already knew that but I am anxious when it comes to talking about my self. I always worry about over sharing and becoming branded as that unfortunate piece of information that I let slip out. So I tend to keep it simple; name, contextual major, movie. This is the formula that works for me as I tackle introduction after introduction.

Upon reading that my first assignment would be a “self portraits” I was nervous, but relaxed as soon as I we were given the okay to be as abstract and playful as we could possibly be with out pictures and clips. I am still worried about over sharing but I think it’s better to do it in a way where you can explain in your blog later.

Some ideas I am starting to have in regrades to what I can capture as part of my self portrait:

• photo showing a gift vs something I was buy for myself
• conversation snippets between me and friends
• recording of favourite sounds
• pictures of book shelf / shows how I organise and what I read/store there
• videos of places I walk pass everyday
• recording of my favourite movie scenes
• recording of me reading a book quote I like
• video showing how I move around uni/certain areas
• photo showing whats on my walls

Also we were shown this website which I found to be quiet interesting and hopefully helps with further inspiration in this assignment.