Blog 6

1. Ideas sometimes grow out of irritation. What is a negative thought you are having about your project? What is the opposite of this negative thought? How could you implement a change in your project so that this negative thought will subside?

I am not sure that the concept or the idea I have in my head for the video will translate well when I actually take all of the photographs and put them together. The opposite is that my idea is seen clearly. I need to write down my ideas and have a set plan so that it can translate easily to the photographs.

2. What is the “opposite” of your final project? How can you rework your project to include the “opposite”? The opposite would be real video instead of stop motion. I am incorporating that exact thing at the end of my stop motion to juxtapose reality and a dream.
3. What is a consistent theme/visual element in your project? What would be the opposite of this? How can you implement that into your project? The consistent theme is loss and having her bf disappear. The opposite is having him there which I am doing a mix of both.
4. Type twenty words or phrases that relate to your project. Love, loss, loneliness, boyfriend, girlfriend, death, romance, memories, park, dating, together, apart, stutter, dream, longing, missing, disappear, giving, mystery, sadness.
5. At the deepest core, describe why you like this project. Dig deep! I like this project because it touches upon my fear of being a lone and losing the one I love.
6. Expand your project. If time, money, materials, etc would not affect you, how would you expand your project? I would expand it by taking more time with certain shots and also adding place to shoot at in the video. I would take more time to add in better and bigger props. I would also find a way to have the carnival scene be on a ride but I could not do what I wanted on the rides.
7. Contract your project. What would it boil down to if squeezed and contracted to its simplest form? Love and loss.
8. Look at one of your images. Redesign it entirely. I am picturing my carnival scene and I would change it by adding in a scene with the rides in it.
9. Divide your project into three components. Rearrange and reassemble them in your mind. Three components are the bf being there, the boyfriend disappearing and the girl waking up. I think the whole video rearranges these components as the video advances.
10. List your assumptions about your project. Reverse these. I assume it will be quite a long video but the reverse to that is that the photographs will be a lot in a second and the video wont be as long as I thought.
11. What would your project look like 100 years ago? What would your project look like 100 years in the future? 100 years ago and in the future it would be similar theme because love and loss will never change but the places will change as to the date and places that are around then.
12. Remove something from your project. How does it change? Remove the boyfriend and there is no theme just a girl walking around town.
13. Persuade the reader that your project works well and is the most amazing project you have ever completed. This project touches on love, loss of a loved one and nightmares. It is a stop motion video which is very intriguing and will be interesting to the viewer and it involved a lot of places that can connect to everyone and what they do with their loved ones.
14. Persuade the reader that your project stinks. Then, persuade the reader that you will make changes so that it no longer stinks. No one wants to deal with love and loss and it will make you sad and you may not realize that it is a dream in the first place. To change this thought I am going to add a part at the end that is real time video so you can see the difference between dream and reality and have her waking up in a sweat and have a scene that depicts he is gone but that she loved him and holds on to the memories.
15. Think of one of your most memorable dreams. How could you add elements from this dreams to your project? One of my memorable dreams is about being a lone in a white room and wanting to get out to be with people and my family and I think that this entire project has that element.
16. How would you convert your project into a narrative? How would you remove any narrative from your project? I think my project is a narrative, it tells a story about the girl through the stop motion video. I think not having it a video and just a couple pictures would take away the narrative.
17. How would you connect your images physically and conceptually? How would you make them disconnected physically and conceptually? They are connected through the stop motion video, to disconnect them would be to choose just 5 of the hundreds and you would lose the concept and they would be apart.
18. What would happen if you demolished your project and reconstructed it physically or conceptually? I would change scenes and it would be a brand-new project
19. Name an artist/photographer/designer/videographer who would love your project. Why? Liebovitz may enjoy it because it touches on love and captures/documents part of my life.
20. Name an artist/photographer/designer/videographer who would hate your project. Why? Stieglitz may have some disconnect because it is not pictoral work and is straight photography.
21. How would you make your project more edgy, saccharine, provocative, empty, revealing, concealing, funny, sad, mysterious, blunt, honest, disingenuous, fast, slow, playful, austere, hateful, lovable, bold, subtle, long, short, big, small, connected, disconnected? I could add more scenes, make some more racy with her boyfriend, make it more intense with the idea that he is dead by adding a cemetery scene, make it more revealing by adding the image of the girl in there but the idea that you never see her face is mysterious, adding more scenes to lengthen it or cut some out to shorten. Etc. etc. Add noice and voice so that you are more connected to the boyfriend and he is more lovable.