Adapting (ft. My fear of change)

Hello! Where have I been? Why haven't I posted the storyboard for our current story that doesn't even have a title yet (which should probably have a title soon)? I will tell you why! It is because I am mentally dying from uncertainty and stress.
Being an optimist has seemed like an impossible task recently with the number of problems we faced with our original plans. As I mentioned in my last post, we've been considering our other options. I love the story we've come up with so far, and I know I get attached to a story when it starts playing in my head over and over. But, perhaps it's not the time for this story to come to life. My mind is even screaming at itself saying "MAKE SOME COMPROMISES YOU IDIOT!!!!" and goodness do I want to make compromises! It seems as though I am too attached to the story's potential to make necessary changes...
On that topic, the word of the week is
Which isn't great for me because I fear being in situations I can't control forcing me to change things (literally the exact situation I am finding myself in right now). 
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 Here is a little more in-depth research I've made about possible routes to go on.







I feel pretty good about possibly going through with creating an experimental film. Seeing that experimental films have a minimal crew (me and Joey), are low budget, and are typically self-financed or are created with small grants (my monthly allowance I suppose), I think it could really fit well with our current situation.

 Joey and I have watched Meshes of the Afternoon (Directed by Maya Deren and Alexandr Hackenschmeid) before when we had gone to an exclusive screening of When I Come Home (Directed by Solange Knowles) at the Perez Art Museum in Miami.

SOURCES FOR RESEARCH:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_film

 https://www.fullspectrumfeatures.com/production-blog/2014/5/17/whats-an-experimental-film





As I mentioned in my last blog post, we are considering going for an animated route as well. Mainly because the main issue with the project has to do with its involvement with other humans; what if, I could eliminate that involvement altogether? Although ideologically I would love to do this, the animation creation process could quite possibly exhaust me into oblivion.

Another thing I love about animation is its ability to tell a story without the confines of what is "actually possible". This is a little bit hard to explain, but I could tell a story about kindness through a "real" story like the one we already had, or I could tell it through an ant learning how to share a piece of bread they found nearby an abandoned picnic or something like that. I like how with animation I can tell a real story through a fictional universe (if that makes any sense).

This quote says it pretty well I think.

"With animation, it goes from the head to the hand or whatever tool you’re using and it’s limitless. You’re able to create whatever world you can dream of. It’s the lack of boundaries in animation that fascinates me. You can, from one frame to the next, be taken someplace completely different in a way you can’t in static art or live-action filmed art. It’s transportive in a way that other moving mediums just aren’t able to be.” 

- Alex McDonald

(https://www.huffpost.com/entry/animation-breakdown-cinefamily_n_5665c067e4b072e9d1c6ce0b)



The best way I could describe experimental animation is: oddly personal.

Although I don't think we could make an entire experimental animation film, I think it would be really cool to incorporate aspects of it into a piece.

I looked into an artist who creates experimental animations named Ira Vicari. She used a variety of mediums in the frames she created for her video, and they were very interesting to watch. I'll leave her work featured in a blog post linked in the sources.

Sources:



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Despite our dreadful situation, it was really fun to research these different mediums of storytelling through motion pictures. I sincerely wish that at the very least that this time off from production will give Joey and I personal time to be more creative.

Before this situation got much worse, Joey and I went to the Flamingo Nursery to be surrounded by the most beautiful products of nature and talk about our project. Our friend from Tallahassee had come down as well, so we were able to catch up. I find that being able to connect with friends helps me create stories, so I found this outing very enjoyable.

 On top of that, nature is cool and inspiring. I love it.










Hopefully, we are able to adapt accordingly to our current situation. But so far, not feeling too great about any of this or the world in general... I'm sure I'll feel better soon.



A NICE NOTE:

 Joey liked my clown drawing of him so much that he made it his profile picture on Instagram. We love modern ways of showing appreciation for a friend's art :-)
boo boo the fool


I also am featuring a new part of the sidebar of my blog called THIS WEEK'S SONG. I usually am obsessed with listening to a particular song every week to help motivate me to create and keep creating. So, I will be putting a different song there every week. You can click on the image to listen to the song on youtube. It's an important part of my creative process to listen to music so I thought it was a good idea to show it.

 THIS WEEK'S SONG: LAST WORDS OF A SHOOTING STAR - MITSKI

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