Alright, so the title of this blog post may have been a little too enthusiastic, if you're able to detect that sort of thing through text. It should be obvious with the overabundance of capital letters and exclamation points. But listen to me ramble on about a pointless blog post title. Greetings and salutations, fellow online classmates! I may have introduced myself once before in the first discussion thread, but I shall do it again for the purposes of this blog so that random folks that stumble in here aren't confused. My name is Joshua Winters, and I like to make towering sculptures of former child stars out of lard and Elmer's glue. As if you couldn't tell, that last sentence was a questionable attempt at humor (minus me stating my name). I can hear the groans and moans already from the person reading this. On a more serious note, I am a senior majoring in mass communications concentrating in film and media arts with a minor in film studies. As if you couldn't already tell, I am an aspiring filmmaker. Right now I create videos for YouTube and I am going to try to volunteer more at the UTV studio on campus to become better at my craft. I hope to get an internship soon, particularly in the summer. I want to focus my career on video editing or editing films, but I wouldn't mind embarking in screenwriting or directorial endeavors as well.
Like with almost everybody in the U.S., I am a user of Facebook, one of the most common social media outlets available. I've been using it since 2008, and it was my first exposure to social networking (I never got into MySpace). These days I primarily use it to share articles and videos with friends and family and share my own videos with people as well. I try not to spend too much time on there, but for what I use it for, I think it serves its purpose. Another social media website I constantly use is, of course, YouTube. As I stated before, I upload videos on there and I have two channels (one that is my old channel for random and goofy videos that I've made since 2008, and another with more "professional" projects that are more current). Last.fm, if it counts, is another social media site I use and have used since 2010. It's essentially a website to "scrobble" music they've listened to on their computers or iPods, allowing users to communicate with other music lovers with similar tastes and to find recommendations for different kinds of music that would cater to a particular person's tastes. I haven't dipped my feet in Twitter yet, but I hope to in the future because the more social media applications I become familiar with, the more I can get my work out there for people to see and also to establish connections with people to work with.
And that.......is about the gist of it. Thanks for reading!
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