Week 4 Synthesis: Curating Through MCBS

Curating assets this month was quite a challenge. It is imperative to have the right assets to convey a certain emotion and feeling. During our final project, it was difficult to find great assets since our project was focused on a story about a father and daughter relationship through the years. We wanted to use our own photographs and we didn’t have the best quality photos. That being said, the age of the photos worked because it showed the lapse in time in our final project. 

In all our projects, I found that gathering assets was difficult as well. There is not that many available stock images online, and for this reason, I think they are worth keeping. What I’ve learned from this experience is that creating and curating your own digital assets is much more valuable that I once through. Having the freedom to capture what you want instead of searching for it online would make it simpler. I hope that my photography skills develop through this program in order to be able to capture impactful images.

The articles we read this week were quite interesting to me. I have worked in video production for over 10 years and in the years I’ve spent in this industry, I have been taught the complete opposite. In my line of work, it is better to have more digital assets than less. This may be due to the nature of the company I work for, since we tend to try to create more content than planned. I do know from experience that curating these hundreds and thousands of files has become a problem for my company and each day we struggle in trying to find a solution. I do agree with these authors in that one great photograph is more important than 10 that are mediocre but I also think sometimes it takes 10 attempts at a photograph to find the perfect one.

As technology evolves, hard drive space and cloud space becomes more inexpensive and accessible. I think that assets collected should be catalogued, compartmentalized, and the organization efforts streamlined. I also do believe that deleting certain assets because they aren’t being used can be dangerous as you may need it in the future.