Some important projects from my time class include my short animation, a documentary film about social vs. literal walls, and an interpretative book about time through the life of fruits and foods.
1/ The short film,”Wild Thing” is a quote from the book, Breakfast At Tiffany’s by Truman Capote. The assignment was to create about a one minute animation using a line from a work or a book as a reference to the piece, and incorporate some text into the video. I choose this line because the book is one of my favorites, and I wanted to create a very modern perspective to the quote and how it is shown in the media. Through the process of creating this video, the stills together took about a day to create and process. Each frame had to be slightly moved to show the transition, but it was a new process that was very exciting to experiment and work with. I enjoyed creating the frames, but editing was a bit of a challenge because all of the frames had to be the same amount of time, but some had to be longer if the message was not clear. Overall, I loved being able to use a form of collage in a video.
2/ “WALLS” by Isabelle Sherman. Walls is a documentary film that compares social walls to literal walls. I wanted to create a piece that had social meaning to a big problem in my generation- social media. Although at times, social media can be useful, we often compare our lives to others and feel a sense of despair. However, what we forget is that we all post only the best of our lives, when in reality, our walls sometimes holds the memories of our true selves which we forget to remember. It was a new kind of experience for myself to interview people on something so personal, but everyone that I interviewed seemed excited to share their daily view of their dorm room walls. I found that I would love to explore this direction of documentary because I really love storytelling in the form of art, and I feel that storytelling in film is a medium that I would want to grow towards.
Screenshots from “WALLS.”
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z8YSlzrwZ7BQCmMBZDET5IDucEE4kYbC/view?usp=sharing
I cannot directly link the video in this post because of the size, but this link should redirect you to a google drive.
Through the experience of directing and filmmaking, I had learned alot. I think that if I had more time, I would have wanted to include more people, and also export my video at a higher resolution. However, I think that the lower resolution does not take that much away from the whole video. I would have wanted to include more effects and cooler transitions, but overall I find that the simplicity in the video helps bring out the artwork in the walls and of the stories of the people.
3/ “A Delicious Tale of Time.” This book was created as a final assignment. In this 50 page book, I explored how fruits and foods both experience the effects of time differently- from either appearance distinctions, or how humans have changed that food over time (ex. a melted ice cream caused by the hair dryer of my hands.) I loved being able to create this book because of comparing the photographs in juxtaposition to specific colors, shapes, artwork, and text. It was a new experience creating this bold aesthetic, but I think that the book was a new project, and definitely a challenge. In creating the physical copy, I had some troubles in my experience. I had a difficult time trying to bind the book. I had never bounded a book before, but I made a small prototype of my idea, and then translated it into a larger 8×11 inch book. I ended up learning a lot of how to bind a book, and this was something that I had always questioned in the past.
A Delicious Tale of Time: A Delicious Tale Of Time Book
