Wow. It's crazy to see that I've not posted any film updates in a decade! What the...?
Even since my last post, I am still in post-production on "11:11." Life imitates art and art imitates life, I guess. A series of unfortunate events and a roller coaster of jobs led me to where I am today... finishing my last semester of graduate school. My heart has always been torn between film and teaching, so educating filmmakers on a collegiate level will give me the opportunity to share my experiences and mistakes with young students planning a career in film production.
A "trailblazer" of University of North Carolina at Wilmington's Film Studies MFA Program, I have delved into genres outside my narrative comfort zone. Through the program, my interest in experiemental filmmaking and stop motion animation has truly blossomed. Due to the art imitates life fact, my senior thesis film evolved into something unplanned. My schedule now askew from my classmates, I shall be extending my thesis film defense until the fall.
Arrow, a stop motion animation, was a project I conceptualized in my experimental film class. A collection of items destroyed by a foster dog lay in a messy box representing a landfill. In addition, waste accumulated from the project went straight into the landfill. The dog, made out of wire and a singular eye, makes his way across this mess in hopes to find cover for the night. Bulldozers, planes, trains, and birds fill the noise polluting soundscape. As the dog lay to slumber, cross dissolve to the morning when he actually lay in his 'real' dog body in a cozy bed inside a brightly colored diahrama. The family is known as "The Hart's."
Experiementing with various wires, foil, foam, adjustable toys, magnets, you name it... I'm still working out the most efficient way to manage all these moving parts by hand. It occured to me that a method used in a previous project used archival images which resized and moved frame by frame to create movement. Since the aluminum birds I have made a million times seem to be troublesome, I tested out how it would look if the birds were a pre-existing video. This would allow more focus on what the dog is doing. The gauge of his wire is quite large, so I must ensure not to chew it up with plyers! I also must ensure the dog does not get lost in the busyness of the set and its abundance of colors and visuals.
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