Sound Sketchers

This blog will document my professional development as a sound designer and motiongrapher. I will be posting all that inspires me in visual arts and sound design, telling the world about my ideas and assignments and share the best web tutorials, my own designs and projects and many other beautiful things from the realm of digital media.

Sound Sketchers originated as one of my assignments at University of Salford. I was a bit sceptical at first but as soon as I realized what the Digital Media module is all about I knew this was just the thing I needed. I’ve been struggling with my Digital Identity since I first uploaded my CV onto one of the many jobsites. I work as a freelance and when I do work for a client they are happy to work with me again and often forward my details to other professionals. I’ve always had the impression that people usually like me when they meet me in person. So why I, wandered, I’ve never had any luck when applying online? I used my digital profile here or there…with no success. There must be something I’m doing wrong, I thought. I got quite depressed for a while and stopped using my jobsite profiles altogether. There was nothing I could find interesting about my CV. It’s just dry facts about my previous jobs and education.

On the other hand my social networking profile on Facebook was full of personal links, party pictures, stupid comments and other childish stuff like that. But Facebook is reserved for my family and real friends who I actually met and regret I cannot see them more often. I use it to keep in touch with people from overseas. But is this content really private? Is there any way employers can check my profile even though I set it up as hidden? If so…I’m in deep #@~%.

I made a search for myself with Google and surprise, surprise I found one of my ‘party pictures’ without any problems. It’s easily available in Google images even though I’ve deleted it from my profile. So I realized Facebook is not private, not hidden from the world and not reserved for friends. I started frantically deleting all the embarrassing content from my Facebook profile. I don’t use Facebbok that often any more. Crazy, right?

This blog has already caused me some sleepless nights. I constantly write in it and then delete the posts. I comment on other blogs and then go back to the comments to make sure they can’t be misunderstood and don’t sound rude. For reasons quite obvious I rather talk to people in person. When I think about it I’m reminded of the words one famous French DJ (can’t remember his name though) said in one of his interviews: ‘It’s so hard being cool in English’. He told the interviewer how in his own language he is always the funny, entertaining, cool guy. In England people can’t see it because of the language deficiency, and hang out with him because he’s famous, not necessarily because they like his character. I now feel that thanks to blogging, thanks to the Digital Media module and with guidance from module teacher Helen I’ll learn to create post that people will find interesting and post comments that could not be misinterpreted. And that’s what Digital Identity means to me- learning the do’s and don’t of the social media, gaining confidence in the internet world and learning from the blogging community. (Not only how to be cool in English ) After all the adventure has only just started and I already found thousands of interesting blogs to subscribe to…