Monday, October 13, 2008

10/13

So, I ran into a wall today with Motion, not one preventing me from making something but just something technical and dumb that furthers my belief that simple, handmade special effects are the way to go versus finnicky and fragile computer generated stuff that motion does.

I'm not writing off motion, I'll certainly come back to it, I just think this wall has brought me back to main focus which was achieving that Michel Gondry aesthetic. I got a little distracted but now I'm back.

I am going to begin filming for a film adaptation of a short story I wrote a while back that Ben Mead (who you know from last year) already composed music for. I will be using construction paper and glue and scissors more than the keyboard during filming, but I think that I can make everything look smoother LATER using motion maybe. I will see. Until then, I need to figure out:

A) who will play by characters
B) when and how I will make my sets and effects
c) when I need to begin

I will start planning this period and move forward in class next period. I will bring construction paper to work with.

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