Portfolio Update - Teacher is an ass

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I felt the need to write another update about the teacher in my class because he is being extremely rude.

Okay, before some of you ask, this isn't about me, thank goodness, I've been doing a lot better since the last journal I wrote but I will still give you guys a brief update on how I'm doing since I know some of you may want to know.

First update: My progress.

Since the last journal, which was about 2 weeks ago I believe, I've been doing better. I finally got access to my old work from my External Hard drive; I had to buy a new cradle for it because the previous one broke and I had to get some help from family in getting it. I updated my demo reel with my work and I got better comments on it, the class loved my work but the teacher's comments were still iffy to me.

The teacher asked me to make changes to finalized animations I had done, with one of them adding birds in the trees and fixing up the background and stuff. I ignored that comment and decided to just cut the beginning shot of my animation. As for the second comment, he said he didn't want blood in my "Bloody Message" animation. He said I should remove it or censor it because "think of the children". I chose to remove the animation completely from my demo reel because the whole joke in the animation is about blood.
MS: Bloody Message by GiantPurpleCat
(If you can't see the video here on DA, I have a YouTube link here.  )

To be honest, I would have kept my animation in my reel. He was acting as if I animated something with the gore levels of Mortal Kombat X or something. Also, removing this animation from my reel left a huge chunk of empty space in it so now I have to figure out what to fill it with.

But other than that, he said my portfolio site looks good, my business cards look great (though he wanted me to change the eye on my logo because it looks like Monsters Inc. because clearly Monsters Inc. hold copyright on all simplistic eye logos in the world) and my reel was definitely better this time around.

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Second Update: The Teacher being an asshole behind a student's back.

Excuse my language, but it had to be said. His behavior towards this one student in my class is unacceptable.

Some brief information: This particular student is very amazing with her animations. She has shown plenty of animations she's done in Flash which are fluid and have a lot of movement and action in them. Now, in the beginning of this semester, she was happy to present her work and everyone was impressed with it. She put a lot of hard work and dedication into her animations and when we had to present our first rough draft of our reels during midterms, the teacher started being an ass to her.

I say this because of what the teacher announced to the class as they had to work on their reels; He told the class that he has to see an update of the reel every week until the Portfolio show in the last week of the semester, and obviously, our first rough drafts won't be that good and we will need to put some more work in it before it can be finalized. Now then, this student put her reel together, putting in her best illustrations and animations in it, she was one of the first ones to finish because she basically had every thing ready before hand and then the teacher came along to see her work. Note: keep in mind what he said about the reels not being prefect in the first run since this is still a rough draft. Okay, when she showed the teacher her reel he just sat there and said "It's perfect. You don't need to do anything more. You're done." The student was confused and asked him what was wrong, and he said "Nothing. It's perfect." The student then asked again and gave the teacher some attitude because the teacher didn't properly critique her reel. The teacher added that she needs to add some flare to her name and information in the beginning and ending of the reel, but that was about it. The student then agreed and started to make something for her intro and outro.

Moving onto next week, when the class had to present their first rough drafts, this was also the same week I wrote the first Portfolio journal a few weeks back.
When it was time to present, students showed their first rough drafts and they got some comments and critiques on what to change, what to do and etc.. When it was this students turn, she presented her reel the class was wowed, save for the teacher. The teacher then said that he didn't feel like he was looking at a reel, he said he felt like he was looking at a musical. He said this because of this students animations mostly consisted of dance scenes, but not all of them.

I sat here confused wondering why the teacher says this when this student is showing her animation skills with something that's hard to animate? It's like he completely ignored the fact she animated all of her stuff and judged her reel more like something he was watching on TV rather than giving her an actual critique. Like, excuse her for showing her animation skills?? Again, with this fact, he failed to give this student proper criticism and tell her what was wrong with her reel and what she needed to fix. The student, again, kept asking the teacher what was wrong but the teacher was like "Don't give me attitude". The student just up and left the class, clearly stressed because of the teacher not giving her proper comments and critiques and shortly after she left and we finished watching the reels, the teacher was like "Don't be a Lauren, okay?" He basically mocks her, behind her back because of the attitude and stress she's going through. This reminds me of the "Krusty Krab Training" video from SpongeBob when the narrator tells SpongeBob "Nobody wants to be a Squidward", obviously mocking him because Squidward was a bad example of an employee. The teacher was basically doing just that. And he made this a running thing too, like a running gag among the class and would always say "Don't be a Lauren" whenever she's not in the classroom.

Now then, Friday of the 26th in my class is when the crap hit the fan with this student. After midterms, I've noticed her behavior, with each week progressing she looked worse and worse. With each passing week she look more stressed, distressed and now, on the 26th, she looked downright depressed. On Friday, she was just sitting there in the classroom hanging her head and just blankly staring at her computer screen all day in class doing absolutely nothing, she also started to speak with a low voice, she always speaks with a loud and clear voice, but not this time.
That day, the teacher wanted to check the students' portfolio sites and also sign a graduation clearance sheet for the students, when it was that time for the student to leave again, the teacher hollered at her like he was her father and said "Don't leave, I need to talk to you." She said okay and left class to get her papers signed.

Some time later when she came back, the teacher and her were outside of the classroom to chat. The door was left open so I could see them talking outside, I didn't hear the conversation though since I was listening to music as I was working. A couple minutes later I see her outside; she just broke down and started balling her eyes out. She was sitting on the floor crying out loud and all I could do was just sit and watch as she broke down. I could tell the amount of stress and crap from the teacher finally got to her and she just couldn't take it anymore. I stopped my music for a bit to hear some of the conversation and what I heard is that the student kept asking the teacher what was wrong with her work and he never tells her. I didn't hear what the teacher said, but when they came back inside the classroom the teacher said that he would finally tell the student what she needs to do to fix her reel and the student said that, that was all she wanted.

After that, I just felt so bad for her. To be honest, I believe she has had it a lot worse than I have. After she started crying, I just wanted to hug her and tell her everything was gonna be alright. I just hope she feels better soon because she doesn't deserve this crap treatment from this teacher. I still don't like this teacher's "criticism", I'm using that term loosely, with her and me. I feel like it's just us two that get the crap criticism while the rest of the class gets a proper one. I just wish I could have recorded this teacher's comments with my phone, but I didn't because I would have never expected his comments and critiques to be this bad and horrific against us two.
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experimentalDeity's avatar
I think that teacher needs to be reported.