Blog #2: Taking Pictures

What I was doing...

Sadlly, I could not get to see the movie “Beauty and the Beast” movie. Since the movie time didn't match with my schedule.

For this week, as I promised to do, I've been taking pictures ( and selecting pictures that I took in the past) that attracted me.

But it was just this unknowable feeling that caused me to take these photos.

Here are the selected photos I took in the past:

This is the closet room. I wander how the lights came out as a V shape

This is the light bulb. They look like families

This is the ceiling of my (former) living room. It just seems like something is ending

This is the wall of my home. It has a very comforting, surrounding feature.

This is the wardrobe of my home. These seem delicious and listening.

I figured that I really like straight lines, lights, and something that has to do with home.

It's not that I was lazy that I didn't take photos outside when it's April and the flowers are blossoming mightly. I did, but I kind of got bored of the pictures. It's better to see them with bare eyes.

As I planned, I was working on the sketches which could inspire me to make a film...

BUT

Although I knew it was kind of absurd in the beginning, I somehow expected an idea or story to come up with good luck. And I would be able to use it.

But really, nothing came up from the pictures and sketches..

I couldn't proceed much without any ideas. I tried to watch ted talk about films.

I watched Morgan Spurlock: The Greatest TED Talk Ever Sold

Morgan Spurlock is famous for making the documentary, "Super Size Me" which shows how McDonalds is dreadful for your health.

I was hoping it to inspire me drastically.

But sadly, it did not.

I wanted to know about what ideas can be used for production.

But this told me about the hardship of keeping your ideas, due to sponsors and financial hardships. I guess this could give me a notion, or awareness of if I go to the film industry later on I can’t always keep up with what I’m wanting to do.

Reflection

My new project, which was creating was much challenging than learning guitar. I might be able to get some tips online about how to edit videos. But because I was not able to come up with a story to film something, I had nothing to edit.

Creating something out of my thoughts are very difficult.

I need to set my own guidline to make my own film.

I figured maybe I was trying to make a grande, amazing, perfect project.

I was trying to find a meaningful, heavy theme out of me that I could also not interpret.

This is always the problem with me.

Things don't always have to be twisted and complicated to make a good work.

Simple things could also have meaning. Meaning is not something that is brought up by force but naturally.

People who view my video don't have to catch the meaning. Meanings are subjective and they all come differently to one another.

Flipping the roles, as a audinece or a viewer, I myself enjoy watching videos with many views rather than going through one specific place thoroughly. That is more for the roles of books.

To make my project simpler, I thought of something that can be seen.

I came up with two ideas.

1. Filming a reality of "10th graders 20% time"- what it's like in a vivid way.

2. Filming something based on a poem.

The first choice might be postponed because students are really busy in April and I think it would be hard to match up the time. I might do this once I get used to the second choice.

The poem idea just came up this morning.

I like poems, but only when I get to know about the author's story, or if I had a good memory with whom I read.

Poem is short, but is often hard to interpret.

Unlike stories, poems are not specific, and also sometimes uses to specific parts to make a big picture.

I am going to look up for some poems that I would like to make as a film next week.

I hope my project is going in the right direction,

and I would not have to make any changes anymore.

I lack a lot of decisiveness.

Even in little things like what color I should choose for my phone.

Through this project I hope I can get over with this decisiveness.

Deciding something was always a barricade for me when planning out this studio plan.