I was excited to actually see some of these videos as an assignment for design. 
Up until this point, I have really realized that Design, or Design at least in the form that we are using it, is not “my thing.”
“More formally design has been defined as follows.
- (noun) a specification of an object, manifested by an agent, intended to accomplish goals, in a particularenvironment, using a set of primitive components, satisfying a set of requirements, subject to constraints;
- (verb, transitive) to create a design, in an environment (where the designer operates)“
And this is just what I was referring to. But my brain took this assignment and made it something different, it watched the videos as examples of design and as a result had an unintended effect. I am starting to somewhat appreciate what we’ve studied so far. The videos for me took material that was unfamiliar and turned it into a medium that I can appreciate and understand, as I have worked in video my entire adult life. But what I found interesting was this, and this is where the philosophical portion of my brain takes over. The first video I watched was the David Carson video. And while I thought the video itself was just average, it was the design material the subject gave the video producer that made it good. By itself, it was of average production quality. The camera was extremely shaky, but once the elements were introduced, it became a better video.
By the time I watched the last one, I stopped noticing production elements of the video itself and started paying attention strictly to the information. And I like some of what the artists had to say, especially the part about the process of design and the inspiration behind it. So in the end, I realized that maybe I should stop being so picky and just view them as intended.