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29 November 2009

re-thinking my process project

SO. I have been struggling with my final project for Process&Evidence. I have made a few animations in Flash on the computer with photoshopped images made from drawings i've done. I've been successful with making things happen on the computer that I had wished for. However, I don't feel satisfied or like I am able to move on with that project. It is also an issue of knowing the program and making websites and things like that I am just not comfortable with. Also, the availability of the computer is very little. So I went back to the drawing board; my desk. I started manually photoshopping the same images I had done on the computer. in the same way: erasing the background of the paper leaving just the image. and then sticking this image to a painted/drawn background. I thought about doing a diorama like I made for my reading projects in elementary school, or making a series of scenes like that of Liz's Louvre. There were a few moments of struggle where I sat blankly at my desk. So I just began to draw and paint to help myself think. It worked. I thought again about the Going and Going video and how my project was relating to the overarching theme of the class: Process and Evidence. If i even understood it. So I started making images of what I've seen in my journeys in the last 3 months. I began with the first one of the view outside of the airplane, then of one outside of the bus on the way to Pont-Aven, then comes the image of the street where I am staying now. It has turned itself into a simple story titled Going. Stories that involve travel have related themselves to my own especially because of our constant travelling. I am using George Melies' A Trip to the Moon for the film class final project and I was begining to get the project for this class mixed up with that one. So i figured; I should just have a separate story so they don't get lost in eachother and one project suffers because it's story is getting left behind. I have also been thinking about Gulliver's Travels alot lately in relation to this project. I had looked at video games and computer drawing games as well. I think right now, using computer programs that I am not familiar with to make a solid final project will be too difficult. I always go back to drawing and painting and find that to be a place where it is more fulfilling to challenge myself in. So with this project, I will tell the story of travelling and it is one that is leaving the viewer as the subject in the story.

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