what exactly is the art major it's like it's very hard to describe it's not exactly just to do your three d or it's like our income saying anything like including animation to like stuff that you would see on the bottle of an orange juice like anything logo design advertising it's big in which of those types of all the arts and there are you looking forward to in college i want to go into game designer animation so what is it what is that what is the aim is a game design is the all the components that you would use like the interactions between players different items that you would have in a game the animation standpoint you do a lot of three d rendering with that kind of stuff in use different computer software like maya that's the one that i use when i went to scatter over the summer that's where i learned about games on so do most colleges have that type of major ready for you know you have to really like focus your college search on your major when you're looking in the arts i know that i did i had to go in look through each college and figure out what kind of majors they had in base my college decision on which one's had it so how long have you been searching for colleges i started over the summer yeah it was  more towards the end of junior year than the summer but yeah you know there are any colleges that really stand out to you i really enjoyed scad in micah the maryland institute college of art i'm also looking into penn state  edinburgh right now so what are some of the main benefits of going into an art major let alone an engineering major something like that in the arts field i think that it's a lot easier for you to switch over  because when you're an art major you have to take all of the same our core classes and those are like a crucial part of every single art major so once you have the basics down you can kind of switch around to find out what you like we're talking about arts have you been involved in the arts for a very long time or when did you start liking the arts i started art when i was like two or three just drawing pictures i'd ask for like really birthday presents in just since i can ever remember like always been drawing so are always stood out to you yes so what do you do right now is a high school or that involves art like extra curriculars anything i'm in the art club right now and i'm also taking a bunch of art classes so on my free time i'm doing projects and assignments for those classes in the our club we meet like every tuesday once a week not every tuesday but once a week and what do you do in our club we try and do group projects our last one was a throne for the b the pittsburgh youth ballet company they were having and production of the nutcracker and they needed a new thro so what do you do on your cervix you have a well first of all you learn different techniques and decorating like how to decorate things because you have like the bases down and then  you have a series or a collection and in this concentration you have twelve different pieces that all revolve around a certain theme and is that the only ceramics class our school has to offer no they have ceramics one two three which you can do hand building or on the wheel and they have on yours so what is handling on the well can you explain that on the wheel is when you are using a potter's wheel in you make pots mogs other things but it's all wheel base so you throw your pieces on a wheel and that was any other types of like interesting things you do in that class we work with glazes a lot and what are those that's the paint the put on the ceramic pieces after you're done and so do you guys do any like creative projects in that class outside of your concentration there's not much because the concentration takes up a lot of your time in that or because you've taken the rest of the causes you lots of projects that have to do with human anatomy in like accuracy they have a section on for shortening which is the different views of looking at something how to foreshorten they have lots of different things in that class so between these two are classes which one is your favorite which one do you like going to know i like them both a because my concentration pieces and it takes up a lot more time but i always started off with to do so to use my favorite so going off towards the college idea you did so you've been searching for colleges and things like that what are some of the struggles you came across when searching for college definitely finding one with the kind of majors i want in mind and also finding one that's like fits every other criteria that an going would be looking for in a college like how close is it how far is it do they have nice dorms all that kind of stuff and yeah and you did say you've been very successful finding these types of things yeah i think i've had quite a bit of luck finding a good balance between the integrity of the classes that they have and the needs for my ones i guess in a college so we talked about the benefits of having a having an art major can you think of any downsides that could come across having an art major maybe job accessibility i don't know if you go to a big name school for our it's a lot easier to get in with the big companies like disney or e a a stuff like that and then if you were to go to  smaller school i think you'd be harder so what kind of schools are you looking at like big or small scout in my gerd to really big art schools in the art world in the us and do you know anything special about these colleges like why do they stick out to you more than others they're scattered actually number two in the world for ari now so that's sort out a lot and they're what's called the  six keeping me there a program that helps you get a job after is like number one right now that's very that's very important it's going to get you a job in the future so going off a little bit from the college you do so you do or all the time around here what kind of art do you mainly do right know i'm doing a series of paintings for my advanced r and d and i'm doing my concentration on course first refine qualities of clay and life for my concentration intermix and you did say a lot about you wanted to go to video game design do you do anything involved not r other than my classes that i took over the summer at scad i have not taken any other t v i mean not to be computer classes but i have one coming up next semester i'm excited for that and what do you plan on looking forward to in that class i'm looking forward to working with the different programs i'm not very experienced when it comes to computer are in using the different softwares and i know that every single one that uses different so i'm ready to join you said that you are again but again you already took other classes over the summer what did you think you really gained the most from going to those classes i think again the most from my game design class was that i didn't know what it was  it all before i had taken a class and so that kind of like opened my eyes to a whole new realm of art that i had never experienced and that was awesome and do you think other students who are enjoying going into this major do you recommend they would take these classes as well yes i do is very much for what reasons because i think that to do your in like three d e r it's like a completely different category like you can be extremely skilled at  portraits or drawing someone's face features but then when you get into a computer it's like a completely different skills and i would advise him to start working at as soon as possible and so what are other types of majors out there besides just a video game when you're going into what else to other colleges have to offer that you've discovered through your code search other ones that i was looking at when i was doing called searches were are teaching teaching of the arts and graphic design they have a lot of them there is one called fabrics and fibers when all you do specialize in certain materials and what works best for other things there was one that really interests me it was a goods and products and you basically like say you have an orange juice company you would design the bottle to look visually pleasing to the to the customers and so that they would want to buy it to fit right in your hand and why would you rather go into the video game design rather than the main artisans for job i really think it's interesting all the new technologies that people have came out with and i like where like video games are heading i think it's going to be a big industry by the time college and is there any video games that you know over and now that really aspire you to continue on with them do you big video game or more into like the graphics behind all the video games in the coding i think that's pretty awesome but i know that the new goggle headset things the virtual reality sets i think that's pretty awesome and i think that they'll be working with that a lot more in the future and what do you know already about these virtual reality things not a lot of only got to use it once and it was pretty amazing i've been looking into researching about how it works and stuff i've never gotten around to and would you like to go more into things about virtual reality no a lot about it yet but like i think that when it becomes more accessible to everyone and that everyone search using it i think will be awesome and so you did so you used it before how did it feel whenever you used it is very interesting it felt like you knew it was a real what it was like right there in front of you so it kind of felt real it was very life changing so that is all the time we have for today and i want to thank you so much for of the best minds in america are doing more than imagining american dream foundation seeking to find cures for life without brain disease isn't just something we can imagine something we can my grandfather 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ready for their college applications and collecting what is called a profile one of about a profile want to is a portfolio that one what is that exactly so a portfolio is a compilation of photos of your work and in your portfolio you want to split skills leave learn techniques what you know and depending on what you want to major and the major in art regardless of it being a specific art school or more of a liberal arts school you're going to need a portfolio if you're thinking about just minoring you might not need a portfolio how distance get started on this portfolio for when they're ready to apply to us colleges one thing that i would say is you really want to think about your major if you're going into ceramics you might not include as much of your two dimensional art work like drawing or painting so you want to think about your major and then you also want to think about displaying your skill  know you start to make those decisions once you've made those decisions you're going to start taking pictures of your artwork and it shouldn't be taken on a camera phone even though they take decent pictures you want the lighting to be very nice you want the background to be plain if you can get like a great piece of fabric for ceramics for two dimensional artwork you're going to  in and only take a photo of the artwork you might even have to go into a photo editing program like photoshop and crop it even more there shouldn't be no table in the background or materials lying around it is very artsy looking but they just want to see your artwork so you want to make sure that those photos are as nice as possible  and then depending on the school they're going to have you turn it in to a different set up so when i was applying to college i was using  just powerpoint compiled all my stuff in there now days later dropbox they have of slide room so you have to make sure that you're paying attention to what your school looking for how many slides they're looking for and what program they use and that's going to differ from school to school so you really have to do your research and then some require j pegs sometimes they require certain files so their website should be very forthcoming but don't be afraid  to call someone ask squeaky wheel gets the oil that's sounds like a takes a really long time what time do you recommend students that are applying to our colleges or of our major i would say as soon as you decide that you're going into the arts to start compiling your artwork really thinking about where you're going to go with your art  and then once you decide on your school as soon as you decide on your school start finding out how they want you to format what they're looking for specifically and get it as soon as possible so as i know that the portfolio is a huge part of the application process but did they have to apply just as they would in a normal college where you have your s a t s scorrier essays and everything else like your transcripts  so it's a normal application process plus the portfolio so there's a lot more to critique on a lot more to judge and i but a lot of students have to sit and wait for a very long time because they all have to be looked at individually they can't to be glanced over just like data is but that's a lot to take in so for students that i know of they are going cuvee these large schools for like penn state for there are programs do you recommend looking at smaller schools for the benefit of that they have more intense our program whereas other schools might have a very limited program  i mean it depends on finances on scholarships i went through a really small school i went to carlo and there are programs wasn't  intense love because they were so small there was only one ceramics teacher and one two dimensional art teacher and one art history teacher so in that aspect a small school is nice because you personally build a relationship with the professor and they can really impact you going to a larger art school or something that have more renowned art program is going to be beneficial because you're going to get more of the you know competitive atmosphere there's going to be a lot of critiques in large settings  and with the bigger our programs you're going to get a better name on your portfolio or on your resume and portfolio going forward so both have you know the double edged swords you know they're good in some ways and they have their negatives so it depends on what you're looking for so for stan to alison a major in the arts and obviously class for us is our main porton when you're applying and making sure they relate to your major cues like kind of classes as peter's township have to help students that are going into the arts on their applications so the excellent thing with peter's as we have a large selection the media departments handles you know photo editing video production and i'm sure much more there's our music department we have a theater department the art departments have kind of a fork in the road we have the strand mix department and we have of a four cheered ceramics program so strong mix one two three and four which is a year long course and in those programs we go overhand building and using the wheel so you get a good feel for the material for different techniques and misty giovanni treats it very much college level once you get into strength x three and honors for the two dimensional side we have our one  which are classes like go over basic techniques perspective using pencils using water colors acrylics you know just kind of getting different materials down different techniques and then once you take those two you can decide to take a painting or you can go into studio arts paintings of semester studio art as a year and studio arts we dabble in more  materials we do print making and we do a little bit of computer art as well of the normal charcoal and pencil paintings once you take those you can then take advanced which is offered as either a year long course or semester and then we have a standalone class computer arts which is running next semester and we're going to be using photoshop and illustrator in more of an artistic way doing some painting on the computer so that students have a little bit of experience with that going into college so i know that for a long time i was interested in the arts and then if you are classes here at teachers but i remember that was two d art i wasn't very good at it and i got extremely frustrated because i could not draw for the life of me and there are some kids that just enjoy it so much that they don't want to give up in class a time just isn't enough what do you recommend that those students do in order to improve their skills in order to get into these are programs so there's a lot of options quite honestly in today's world you tube is amazing so you can really if there's a technique that we didn't cover in class or you just in the understand that you can you tube difference tutorials but  also there are a lot of resources in pittsburgh we have the union project we have manchester craftsman skilled cmu offers summer courses they're called pre college classes and there's a lot of difference classes that you can take there there's also arts centers like sweet water that's and swiftly and pittsburgh's are for the arts so there's a lot of resources unfortunately where a little self of the city if you are determined and you're interested i would suggest taking classes like that and quite honestly they're going to offer things that we can't here like glass or manual photography or oil painting so there's different opportunities that you can definitely get involved with absolutely and first inside looking to build that resume do you recommend them using those resources to build their resume up a little bit further absolutely i mean that's not going to hurt that you took a pretty college class cmu and it's showing that you have that drive that you have ambition that you're motivated to get better so any extra anything is good on your resume absolutely so i know that balancing course loads within those classes as well as their academic classes is probably a lot because i know that i can barely do it myself and some of my classes because and i just i'm an art well so how do you recommend that students balance that in college because they're going to have to do that just as a lot more in college the one nice thing about paul there's a lot of nice things about college but one nice thing is that your classes aren't taking as much out of your day right we're still we're stuck here and for seven and a half hours but you have a lot less time in like the class period during college so you can spend that time however you like which means you have to be responsible in how you use your free time so oftentimes art  students are going to just be in the studio for hours and hours even though they don't have the class going and depending on the school that you go to if you're going to an art based goal you might  know math homework with your artwork but you're going to have several art classes which means several art projects going on at once so you have to make use of your time wisely and be aware of your deadlines if you have if you have a more liberal arts school where you're taking other subjects you know it's the same thing you know time management making sure that you're aware and if you ever hear anything