Esto es una presentación que tuve que hacer para un ejercicio en inglés, en él hablo sobre la crisis desde el punto de vista de la gente que se dedica al mundo creativo.
THE
CRISIS FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE CREATIVE PEOPLE
Hello
everybody, my name is Astrid, and I'm going to talk about the crisis
from the point of view of the creative people. I'd like to start by
introducing myself. I'm twenty-four years old and I'm studying
Audiovisual Communication degree. Before that, I studied for six
years Vocational Education and I combined it with different hard
jobs.
The
audiovisual world is a wide world, and it has a lot of disciplines. The difference is that normally the people that work
within these subjects in Spain, must know working all these subjects,
for example, photography, illustration, art direction, computer
graphics, video, law, sound, screenwriting, radio, television,
narrative, scenic design, etc.
In contrast
to the other developed countries where the professional people
dedicate their knowledge only to one subject.
Let's
now look at the main issue, the economic crisis. The crisis has
affected all of us, but today I'm gonna to talk about it focusing in
the computer-graphics, that are at its peak. Developments in computer
graphics have had a profound impact on many types of media and have
revolutionized animation, movies and the video game industry.
I've
chosen this topic because I thought it's interesting. Although we are
not aware of, all the things and objects that we use, including the
social networks, applications, games, all these things are designed
by someone and all we consume it, everyday, all the time.
Even
tough all of you don't have knowledge of computer-graphics, you can
apply this presentation by your own experience or job.
Turning
to one of the more difficult moment, first of all, there are a lot of
unemployed people. Without job, our salaries and the money saved
disappears. We'll try to find a job, but there's no job for us. This
situation will take us to critical moments, and any solution sounds
good for the people without opportunities. One of the most popular
solution it's to leave Spain and try to find a job in Germany, United
Kingdom, China or the U.S.A.
With
this personal crisis, the people stay at home and don't go out for
don't spend so much money with unnecessary things. The culture costs
money too, it's expensive to buy a book, go to the cinema, go to the
museum or a gallery art. It's not very easy have a social life.
Specially,
the people who likes the creativity, staying at home for a long time
makes the people learn and create a new things. For the
computer-graphics we need our computer and technical english, and we
are a people who be always in the computer. We need many hours, many.
Maybe
it will be better if we travel for looking for a job in another
country and learn all the necessary technics, but when you finish
maybe it'll be well if you come back to Spain for teach and broadcast
for another interested people. Then, you can create your own business
and your own projects.
Usually
the professional companies of the computer-graphics are from U.S.A.
and they work in numerous films, but it's very exploited, they have a
lot of people there.
But
if you will stay at home, the development of the social networks it's
a good happening because it has a big connection around the world and
you can show your works to everybody, and everybody can contact you
for work together or in a project. You can use the most important
social networks like Facebook, Tweeter, LinkedIn, Youtube and Vimeo.
It's
interesting because you can learn and stay in Spain at the same time.
You are working in the net and you're improving yourself.
I
think that if we work hard we'll have a good ideas and a better
future.
Now
I would give you a good example, this guys are 'Dvein', they are from
Valencia and they were students of the University, and one day the
Producers of Spiderman called them. // Spiderman film credits //
In
California is working a man from Canary Island, his name it's Carlos
Baena and he works in Pixar, he works in the films, specially he
worked in 'Cars', and he has his own business, 'Animation Mentor'.
In
Conclusion:
So,
all the qualified and competent people are leaving the country, and
my question it's “if the qualified and intelligent young leave
Spain, ¿how will be our country in a few years?”.
Now,
the government have cut the helps for studying at the university, and
the students will pay almost the totality of the career, so only the
powerful people will be able to study.
So
I think that now it's the perfect moment for improve yourself and
take the situation and don't take the easy way and leave our land,
it'll be better if we work our heads and fight for our rights too.
