Color & Convergence (Divergence):Final Proposal & Rough Cut

Studio 1:Memory

Bridge Project #3:Color & Convergence (Divergence);The Final Proposal & Rough Cut

Proposal Team:

“A Blank Slate”

Length: 4-5 minutes

Topic: Telling stories of hardship or conflict and showing the transformation of people and their cultural backgrounds with a new start or perspective.

Jinna → Confusion and hesitation to define herself from “one” country or cultural
Molly → new outlook and mindset after parents divorce
background, finding a clarity in being from multiple places
Carmen → A new start of a more peaceful El Salvador after a 20 year civil war
Maggie → A new start to a more happy and hopeful family

Theme: White is the color of peace and new beginnings.

Goals: To connect with the audience and to evoke an emotional response through our stories.

Soundtrack: (Music, narration, shooting, audio, editing, etc.) Each individual story will be connected with the common sound of a heartbeat to represent the new beginning the color white represents to us.

Points of Convergence:

Jinna’s Story

I want to tell the story of how I am trying to find my cultural identity. (First bit, show both languages mashed together)
Want to use the color white to show the confusion and hesitation of answering the common question, “where are you from?”
Give a little background story of my upbringing. My father’s job made us move to a more international setting (Hong Kong). Even though my parents stressed the importance of speaking Korean at home, they spoke to me in all three languages.
I am going to have clips of my mother speaking to me in both korean and chinese.
Show how I am versatile, in the end when the foreigner asks me where I am from, I’m going to reply with “I am from everywhere”) because I cannot identify myself with just one country.

Molly’s Story

I want to tell a narrative/reflective story on my parent’s divorce
I would be narrating the story and have it accompanied by sounds that are pulled from the anecdotes in my piece
a. Ex. Puzzle pieces, laughing, soccer games, etc.
I want to layer sounds together so that it builds up this mess of thoughts and emotions and then just sort of cuts off → creating that blank slate or “whiteness” and then concluding with a few more words
So the general feel of my section would be that it starts out quieter with just my voice, and then elements are added one by one, until it’s just a huge mess of sounds, and then it cuts off. Then it’s just my voice again.

Carmen’s Story

I want to in brief retell the Civil War in El Salvador. Not particularly the war part, but the process of achieving a peace accord and the celebration afterwards
The narration of the peace will be through poems (I will be reading them)
I will use folklore music of traditional dances of El Salvador. I will also include fragments of documentaries and audio files made about the Civil War
The tone of my piece will be from ‘chaotic’ maybe ominous to ‘happy’ sort of ‘hopeful’ as if suggesting that the war ‘was worth it and we are glad it’s over’
“Archivos perdidos del conflicto”. – Ricardo Muyshondt (2016)

Maggie’s Story

I want to show briefly tell the story of how my family started a new life in the US.
I would have my mother (or grandmother) narrating the story through an interview and sounds of a family being built
a. Ex. baby laughing, hammering(construction), pencils writing, children playing
I will use my native language with a mix of english. I will layer the narration with a soft hopeful melody. After the conversation I want to layer the sounds listed above with the hopeful music.
For my piece I will be aiming for a lighthearted and happy tone of feeling grateful and accomplished. It’s to show that the hardship and struggles had paid off in the end.

Rough Cut:

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