Coming up with a story that fit my selected alter ego and emotions may have been a bit strange and difficult, but once I had the story the process of bring the story and emotions to life was a great experience. My favorite part in the process was trying to represent the whole story along with the emotions that came with it in one frame. I think my one frame proved to be more successful than the combination of frames put together. I felt like even looking at the frame I could feel the emotions I was trying to portray.
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Open Works (final project)
My final project is a stop motion animation of celebrities dressed as classical story book characters attending a celebrity event I named Nadine’s Choice Awards After party. The concept behind this animation is our interest in the lives of celebrities behind movies or songs rather than the actual movie character or song content. Camera flash sounds are playing in the background, making it clear that these celebrities are being photographed. These photographs are meant to feed our celebrity hungry minds.
Proposal:
Celebrities have become the new storybook characters. Today, we are more often interested with the celebrity behind the movie or the celebrity behind the song than we are with the actual movie or song. Once upon a time storybook characters were the characters we were invested in, not the celebrity behind the character; we were interested in the actual character in the actual movie, not who was playing the character. The important stories were the movie and book plots, not the plots about the lives of celebrities.
In order to show this phenomenon, I’m planning on creating a stop-animation. The characters in this animation are celebrities, but they’re not just ordinary celebrities; they are celebrities dressed as storybook characters. Think of Taylor Swift as Cinderella, Emma Stone as Cinderella’s fairy God mother, Miley Cyrus as Alice in Wonderland, Justin Bieber as Peter Pan, Kim Kardashian as the Evil Queen, and so on. Now imagine all of these celebrities attending a Red Carpet Event, and lets call this event Nadine Choice Awards Afterparty, which will be made clear in my secondness image as I will be showing a wide angle shot that will shed light on what is happening to the viewer. These celebrities are moving across the red carpet on the screen one after the other, creating several action shots as a thirdness image. Paparazzi cameras flash all over the screen, so us, the hungry story-craving people get the celebrity updates we are waiting for. As each camera flashes we hear camera flash noises, which can be interpreted as a Causal mode of listening as we can connect it to the source.
This stop-animation is going to be made using illustrated characters, which I will manually move across a “red carpet.” I’ll be taking photos of each movement and combining them to create a moving image. The whole thing should add up to a minute or two of video footage. These moving characters will be digitally drawn, using illustrator, but their faces will be images of the celebrity they represent as to show the contrast between real and imagined characters, going along as symbols of my story and displaying semiotics.
This is one of the hottest celebrity events of the year. Every celebrity attending is in the public eye. We crave juicy details about these people’s lives. The movies and songs they’re promoting is the last thing we think of. We want the real stories about these people’s lives.
Sound piece / Video piece / Sound +Video: Bad Luck Spot
Creating each part of this project separately has really beneficial as I really got to focus on each part individually. I don’t think my final product would have been what it was If I had done this video all at once. I know my sound project would have probably been less strong and maybe even just the background noises of my video piece if I had filmed it all together. I don’t know how I feel about my video as a whole, but I think it gave me the chance to use premiere in an informative way as I had the chance to use a variety of effects.
Research Reflection
Before beginning my research assignment, the whole concept of research and libraries really scared me. I haven’t written a lot of research papers before, or even written annotated bibliographies using the Chicago system. I can’t say that our research assignment really changed how I feel about research, but I can say that I’m not as scared of writing a research paper as I was before. i don’t really like how the actual research can completely change and evolve the topic you are writing about. This is a good thing and a bad thing, but for me I would rather write about what I initially thought about than my changed thoughts after I’ve actually made research.
Multiple Perspectives Reflection
My favorite part of this section was visiting a completely new location, and having to write about it. Getting to visit the Halloween parade was very enjoyable, but also having to write about it for me also became part of the experience. It really gave me the chance to reflect on what Halloween meant to me back home and what Halloween means to me back here, which I normally would not have expected to be that different.
The manifesto group assignment was an interesting assignment. I haven’t done much group work before, and this class gave me the chance to try something new. Being open to other peoples ideas will probably be something I will do a lot in the future, and being introduced to that was really helpful.
Peer To Peer Reflection
I never thought about people building up other peoples identities. How could one person create who the other person is just by being? The affect of one person on the other is much more clear to me than it was before. It was never something I thought of because really we don’t think of ourselves being ourselves because of other people. We think of ourselves being ourselves because of ourselves. Even the way i look at interviews has changed. An interview isn’t solely about the interviewee, but about the actual interviewer as well.
Creating an Alter ego seemed much more difficult than it actually was. The moment I heard about us having to create an alter ego I immediately became worried; I had no clue what kind of person I wanted to create , or pretend I was. When I finally came up with an idea on who I wanted to be I could not stop writing. I really enjoyed being someone who was almost the complete opposite of me, someone who does what they want when they want and lived spontaneously. Writing my alter ego essay and being interviewed as my alter ego really did make me feel like a whole new person and was actually quiet freeing.
Memoir Reflection
Who am I? Whether it was my memoir essay or my first few months abroad that gave me insight on who I am, I can say that I have a much clearer idea on who I am and who I want to be than I did when I wrote my first essay. Now, more than ever, I know that I want to pursue doing what I am doing at Parsons. My last few months have affirmed what I said in my essay. I can’t say that writing my essay did not give me insight on who I am because really actually putting down on paper an incident where I felt self enlightened actually brought about a lot of enlightenment. I did not really know that the moment I wrote about meant so much to me until I actually wrote about it.