Final

Before the project, I was really unsure about what to do. I really liked the idea of a narrative, so I decided I wanted to end up doing some type of narrative. I looked at some videos on the Art21 website and read the short on Carmen a couple of times because I really enjoyed it. I tried to figure out why and it mostly the imagery of blindness and imagination. I decided to use that as inspiration for my narrative in waking up.

While making the project, I didn't want to make it too complicated. I took some photos of my usual journey on a normal morning looking around my house. I detailed my thought process during the walk and my process of waking up. I tried to show my consciousness through the hue's of the photos. I wanted to incorporate imagination into the narrative, so the last shot was my imagination of the scene I was looking at.

Now that I'm done with the project, I don't really feel like I used my big idea of imagination too much. The narrative only really builds up to a small act of imagination. I tried to detail my movement into clarity while waking up and walking downstairs. The ending scene is a changing point of the process. In my mind, I was mentally prepared and clear, seen by the cleanliness of the the floor. But I wasn't actually ready to start the day, that was just my imagination. I'm pretty happy with this aspect of the project and the connection I wanted to convey with the scenes. Overall, I'm pretty satisfied with my final.

Final Progress

My thought process so far has been pretty scattered. I really enjoyed the narrative pieces we watched in class and I want to do something somewhat similar to that. In particular, I thought the one about identity when being watched and the life of someone else was really interesting. I thought a lot about what my life would look like to someone else who stalked me or whatever, but realized I'm a pretty monotonous college student. That could be interesting, but I decided not to follow through with that idea. I looked up some stuff on the Art 21 website about random artists and found the ones who worked with the idea of memory really interesting. I also read the short story on carmen and the ideas of blindness and imagination were inspiring. I decided I wanted to work with short term memory paired with the narrative aspect of the other ideas. I want to try to communicate the blur between memory and imagination when you close your eyes. I've had many experiences recently with this, just thinking about the things around me and the distortion I can get caught up in with my imagination. I don't want to communicate this idea too simply, so I'm kind of stuck right now on where to begin with the narrative.

Identity at Play

When thinking of how to use the words I was given, I first thought of pens or something exploding because of the crumple of my hand. I realized that would be pretty hard to document and get a picture of the actual explosion of the pen, so I decided I wasn't going to do that. The wasn't too much limitation with the word 'fire' because you can basically add fire to any object that I could think of and something would happen. I looked around my house in search of something that I used everyday and found the water cooler in our kitchen that used to be from an office. Since it usually distributed water, I was wondering what it be like if it also, ironically, distributed fire. I took a picture of the water cooler and darkened it a bit to make it seem more mysterious and almost like a water cooler from hell. I put two flames coming from where you usually get water from to embrace the fire coming from the water cooler. The picture is mostly just centered what fire would look like coming out of a water cooler.

Altered Identity

When brainstorming, I wanted to chose an ability that wasn't too cliche. I wanted a superpower that I could still be a normal person with and not some crime fighting extraordinaire. I choose to have the ability to go through solid objects because I could use it to get out of bad situations if I needed to, or just make traveling more convenient for myself. In this situation, I'm diving through the wall of The Shoe because I wanted to get into the game without paying for it. I definitely took more time thinking and creating the idea than actually photoshopping it, which definitely shows. I could of conveyed my ideas better or had more detail in me jumping through the wall of the stadium. I blurred the part of the wall I was jumping through to make it look more believable. Keeping my daily life was important, so keeping the photo normal looking was a priority.