My name is Mark Jason Marban and I'm a Journalism major at Hunter College. Growing up, I was interested with so many things including television, movies, and video games. Not much has changed since then. I still get excited when summer ends because it means a lot of shows return with new episodes. If there's a comic book movie coming out, I'm always willing to throw out previous plans to watch that movie on opening weekend. When a video game I'm excited to play is coming out soon, I mentally prepare how much time I can invest in it upon the week I get it.
But where does journalism fit among my other interests? In 7th grade, my English teacher Ms. South was so supportive of my writing despite my self-critiques. She was even a bit disappointed when I didn't enter my school's spelling bee. Fast forward to my senior year of high school when I've written so many poems and short stories for school and for leisure. I needed an elective so I joined the journalism class and it was the first time I realized that I could possibly write for a living. I wrote movie and video game reviews for the entertainment section.
Coming into 160, I was not sure how or if I could produce a piece of journalism with other forms of media infused in it. However, that became my goal. I want to be able to tell stories that involve my interests as well as new forms of media so that it becomes unique both in use of technique and content.
