First, I just gotta say, I'm real freakin' proud of all of us. I know we all have our own shit going on with our personal lives, frustrations with technological hoopla, and the general soul bearing that is any form of artwork, but we're here and we're making it all happen. Second, I gotta give a huge thank you to Irene...thank you for your patience and guidance...it has been invaluable to the evolution of my project.
My rough cut is so, so incredibly rough. I plan on updating this link as I continue to work this coming week, making sure Ruby is going to get the most current one possible. I don't think I had anything even resembling clarity concerning my project until the last 3 weeks, which has been an absolute life changer. I echo others' sentiments about feeling like I've gotten behind...I started out with a whole slew of technological problems and confusions, which put me automatically behind by a couple weeks at the start of the quarter. Adding to that a trip home to film, a major couple of disheartening opinions about the direction of my film, and I was really about to lose my shit. However, after watching some of the films Irene suggested, I feel like I have the skillset and the resources to make something after all. I don't think it is going to be any thing like I had initially planned, but I am very okay with that. The rough cut doesn't have all of the work I've been compiling for the animation aspect of the my film...I keep resting comfortably on the fence of Tackykitschville and that's okay by me. It seems like every project I do that isn't afraid to be silly or make fun of itself ends up being more "me" anyway.
My mom came to visit last week, and she brought me a box of ephemera that seriously stirred something in my soul that had just been waiting to sneak into my project. One of those pieces of past was a large construction paper booklet called "My Lakota Booklet" from the 3rd grade. I didn't even remotely recognize it, but I'm 99% sure that my younger self made it knowing that I would need it someday. There is a rather impressive drawing of Sitting Bull in it, along with some very nice little descriptions about life on the Great Plains. My mom and I laughed about it until we were in tears...and I ended up using the booklet as my inspiration for my final project in Karen's class. I basically did a recreation of the booklet using a combination of photos and written work that will likely become Voiceover in the film. I ended up being pretty excited about the final product, and Karen looked very intrigued, so my hope is that my bizzaro taste in art will at least translate into the film for a relatively interesting experience, if nothing else.
Here is a link to my rough cut. https://vimeo.com/114958578
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