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Panel 3: The Arts, Layering Perspective of USC Artists

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Across these five different media, each of these artists interlay multiple perspectives into their creative work. Whether through use of sound mixing and collage in the musical and visual arts, or through the use of various narrators and their different perspectives in the dramatic and literary arts, each of these artists craft dense and highly saturated creative expressions in the midst of social distancing and isolation. “Together Apart,” these artists demonstrate, can sometimes mean editing yourself into a one-person creative tour-de-force. Sometimes it means individually coming together to experience the genius and creativity of USC students and their different perspectives. --S. T.

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Moods of My Days By Aristotle Hartzell

This is an excerpt collage of my photo-notebook assignment for Motion Picture Cinematography. We had to take around 30 photos with prompts about lighting, camera angles, color and various other aspects of photography. I chose these five as I feel they remind me of the last few months starting college online: Contemplating, looking through my childhood home, staying up late, and going on weekend excursions.
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With the Loud Blue Light, By Tiffany Yiji Yoon

The screenplay presents life in “home sweet home” amidst the pandemic while Maggie, a 19-year-old college student, has to balance her life at odds with nature. Juxtaposing Maggie’s friendly banters with the cold interactions with her family questions the face-valued simplicity of learning apart. With only an electronic device and the Internet, you’re connected to a world bigger than the one you inhabit. But at what cost does that come? Having the choice and the desire can be the difference that costs one their sanity: as Maggie’s brother Max cannot be separated from his phone, what would Maggie do to get out of the technology waves that surround her? Or is she now dependent on her new lifestyle with screens as her newly found family?
Aesop’s “The Hare and the Tortoise,” but from the Perspective of a Timorous Spectator By Emily Quintanilla

This short story was a piece I completed for my Freshman Seminar. The goal of the assignment was to change the point of view of a well-known story. I decided to recreate “The Tortoise and the Hare” from the perspective of Timmy, an insecure tortoise. Timmy is extremely pessimistic because he knows better than anyone that tortoises are slow and unlikely to win a race against a hare. However, he ultimately finds inspiration in Tortoise’s unexpected win. I was inspired by children’s books and the original fable. I feel this story aligns with their messages and simplicity.