Forum - Week 10 - Got Forum?

Back to normal 'forum' again- 2 hours of straight improvisation in our groups. I’m
really starting to miss the old days, when Dirty Harry would put on his little song
and dance, then some influential artist would have a blathering about how great they
are and we’d all be like “Ooh, I hope I turn out as good as them”. It was something
that inspired thought and made all of us struggle to fit our opinions into the 500
word blog limit. Nonetheless here we are paying for this, so it is in dismay that I’d
have to agree with old Weimerhead, in that this week was a generally unsuccessful
improv session. Some group members are still finding their feet it would seem, as
instruments were interchanged numerous times. Too much time is spent exploring synth
effects instead of actually playing, and we cannot get into a groove when people
change the groove constantly.

Considering our lecturers only spent a maximum of five minutes in our room for the
entire two hour session, I am curious how much time was spent on other rooms. If at
all. Even more baffling is that when our group is failing to start anything
productive, the lecturers do not intervene and tell us what the problem is or give us
a point of departure, they just shake their heads and mutter something as they leave.
Are they getting paid to baby sit us? They are so ready to criticise us on something
that they haven’t helped with, hence why this picture has taken on a new meaning.


Shut in a glass room and thrown into the sun