For my final project I am thinking about writing the analytical paper or helping out with the Citizen L project. I am leaning more towards the paper as I am not sure of the time that I can afford to give up in the next couple months with the prep for my senior project, grad school applications and my other course work. As for topic, I am not sure what I would do. There are two things bouncing around my head, talking about the credibility and message on temporary art that is highlighted in Exit Through the Gift Shop or about the couple religious documentaries that I have had to watch this semester. Just not sure yet on the topic.
EDIT: OCTOBER 19, 2011 AT 12:55 AM
I think I figured out what I actually what to do for my final project. Originally I wanted to do a creative project, in filming a short documentary on the process of a theater production from the viewpoint of a designer. It is the thing that I live for and would love to share it with others. Unfortunately, it is an incredibly long process and started long before spring semester of last school year ended. So I didn't think that I could do what I wanted until I was talking about it today with some other students who are in the other film class. They suggested I story board my ideas out and write a type of proposal for it, including photos for the tech process that I took.
Would that work as a creative project for this class?
A series of story boards detailing my process for Oo-Bla-Dee accompanied by a short proposal with what I hope to achieve showing this experience to people who are unaware of the theater process.
I would love to have you working on Citizen L, were that your choice. :)
ReplyDeleteBut that said, I think we could quite possibly arrive at a suitable plan along the lines you're describing in your second post. I caught the Sunday show of Oo-Blah-Dee and loved it--nice work!
Your proposed idea for a creative project is intriguing. However, the challenge in using story boards would be to maintain the depth/distance necessary for a proto-cinematic "documentation" as such. (It won't do to simply show the story boards you used for your work on the play, no matter how much you annotate them; something like that could be a great way to showcase your work in another context, but it wouldn't in and of itself employ the aesthetic native to documentary--our focus in this course). So we'll have some work to do in figuring how to actually make your idea work--but as I say, the idea is intriguing.
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