Response, overview, and thoughts about class crit of my series "Come Play with Me" (Miniatures)
So I think I can say crit didnt go really well...but at the same time I say that, I feel I'm being hard headed because
it wasn't necessarily a "bad" crit...it was just a crit where people didnt just like what I'm doing. Instead, I felt alot of oposition and suggestions of changes. At the same time I know that misunderstanding or not undertanding can be misstaken as opposition. Sometimes people just dont know what to say, and when you present work that is not finished yet, people dont really know what to say, and the UNFINISHED aspect of the project leaves a loooooot of room for other people to implement their ideas. Naturally, I suppose.
So what was said?
That the toys didnt look played with enough.
That they looked just taken out of a box.
That they dont look like they are something that little kids would play with.
What else...
That they looked out of place
Which is funny because now that I'm looking at what was said, I have an answer for each of the claims that
makes perfect sense to me...
"That the toys didnt look played with enought" - I personally was a very neat kid now that I remember. My playtime
was impecable, my Barbie dolls were always dressed, and everything was in place pretty much. I think that comment
came from personal experience of my class mates...I'm guessing they were messy kids.
"That they looked just taken out of a box" - That one I can almost agree, but dont see the problem. The furniture I used
were ones I had from 7 years ago, so they came from a box once yes. I'm thinking that if I had used antique doll house furniture, i wouldnt have had a problem.
"That they dont look like they are something that kids play with" - That statement was just purely made from someone's personal experience and not all kids are the same! I was FASCINATED with beautiful miniature furniture when I was 7, so I shouldnt take this statement as the complete truth
"That they looked out of place" - THAT WAS THE POINT. Really. The point, besides other points, was to catch the viewer off guard and make them say - "wait a minute, is that a chair besides a leaf??? what the heck??? or - aw thats adorable! " or whatever else they say out of amuzement
Part of the reason I feel my crit went the way it did is because I wasnt ready to explain it the best and truest way possible simply because this project is in its beginning phases. It really is in its baby stage...more like the gestation phase...fetus stage? yea sure anyways!
...I dont know it's like - after my first individual meeting with another professor, i felt my original intent shifting and I want to say it's because of what I talked about with her. I'm too much of a sponge! She mentioned several things and it deviated me from what i was thinking about at first....
which is kind of why I want to put this project away a little bit
to let my original intent with the Miniatures project come back to me.
Friday, February 18, 2011
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Ideas from over the Christmas Break
So today I began remembering a few Video ideas I had over the Christmas break, that somehow escaped my mind until now.
Idea 1 - Stop motion - about the reasons/fears behind a few of my O.C.D. habits
- such as the fear/dread of causing:
*the bathroom to flood
*spilling coffee/hot chocolate on wood/carpet floor
*fires due to heat from electronics (laptops, etc)
Video details:
- using yarn and different types of paper, I would stop motion a scene illustrating the fears happening
- the disaster would occur with the yarn and paper
- the setting would be real places where these disaster would hypothetically happen
- Going for whimsical *NOT realism*
sooooooo for the scene of the bathroom flooding I would have blue yarn coming out of the faucet and "spilling" out of the sink onto the floor
and I want to go for whimsical, so the yarn will form "designy" swirls on the floor
*Example photographs coming soon*
Idea 2 - Stop motion - Stuffed animal Love Story
- Stuffed animal love story concerning a pig and a frog
- Dialogue will happen through passing notes, since they can't talk
* will rely on body movement for dialogue **similar to Wall-E
- Setting: My room
Possible plot 1:
- Pig and frog are sitting across the room from each other
- Frog sees pig
and they wave at each other
- they pass notes by making them into paper airplanes
What are they going to talk about? Is the frog going to ask the pig out to icecream?
or are they going to talk about love and try to figure out what it is?
****are they going to talk about love as something they hear about from the human world and try to figure out
what it is? ***** I like that idea. They can begin the conversation through notes, then look it up in an encyclopedia,
then a love story book, then they watch a classic love movie together, and in the end
while watching the movie they acidentaly touch each other's hand, the frog looks into the pig's eyes,
and the story ends with them watching the movie with a hint that they will be together, accepting love
...did all of this sound really cheesy or what?
but at the same time I want to pursue this idea ... what's cuter than stuffed animals in love?
gosh I've just realized how awkward it is to try to describe video through writing.
I feel like I dont know where to start in my attempt to describe what I see in my head,
and I try to be to the point and end up feeling like I'm being too proper and at the same time
dont want to sound like a child, you know what I mean?
I often feel that visual ideas cant truly be explained through writing or talking about them...
I guess all us creators/artists/visual people feel this at times...
it's like there's nothing better to explain an idea than just simply seeing it done in front of you
That's why sometimes I dont like talking about a project idea because i know that whatever i say about it
will be different than how it truly looks in my head, and the person i tell it to will also distort it in their mind due to
the baggage they carry from whatever happened in their life ...well, and simply because we all think differently , with imaginations that work differently
...and it's crazy, my ideas always seem to change slightly or immensely when I talk about art project ideas with people...
which is really why i prefer to do and show before talking about a project idea
...which makes individual meetings with professors sort of hard
buuuuuuuut I'm getting better at holding more firmly to original ideas this semester, trying them first before incorporating
other opinions so that projects dont take whole 360 turns before they are even started
over and out
Idea 1 - Stop motion - about the reasons/fears behind a few of my O.C.D. habits
- such as the fear/dread of causing:
*the bathroom to flood
*spilling coffee/hot chocolate on wood/carpet floor
*fires due to heat from electronics (laptops, etc)
Video details:
- using yarn and different types of paper, I would stop motion a scene illustrating the fears happening
- the disaster would occur with the yarn and paper
- the setting would be real places where these disaster would hypothetically happen
- Going for whimsical *NOT realism*
sooooooo for the scene of the bathroom flooding I would have blue yarn coming out of the faucet and "spilling" out of the sink onto the floor
and I want to go for whimsical, so the yarn will form "designy" swirls on the floor
*Example photographs coming soon*
Idea 2 - Stop motion - Stuffed animal Love Story
- Stuffed animal love story concerning a pig and a frog
- Dialogue will happen through passing notes, since they can't talk
* will rely on body movement for dialogue **similar to Wall-E
- Setting: My room
Possible plot 1:
- Pig and frog are sitting across the room from each other
- Frog sees pig
and they wave at each other
- they pass notes by making them into paper airplanes
What are they going to talk about? Is the frog going to ask the pig out to icecream?
or are they going to talk about love and try to figure out what it is?
****are they going to talk about love as something they hear about from the human world and try to figure out
what it is? ***** I like that idea. They can begin the conversation through notes, then look it up in an encyclopedia,
then a love story book, then they watch a classic love movie together, and in the end
while watching the movie they acidentaly touch each other's hand, the frog looks into the pig's eyes,
and the story ends with them watching the movie with a hint that they will be together, accepting love
...did all of this sound really cheesy or what?
but at the same time I want to pursue this idea ... what's cuter than stuffed animals in love?
gosh I've just realized how awkward it is to try to describe video through writing.
I feel like I dont know where to start in my attempt to describe what I see in my head,
and I try to be to the point and end up feeling like I'm being too proper and at the same time
dont want to sound like a child, you know what I mean?
I often feel that visual ideas cant truly be explained through writing or talking about them...
I guess all us creators/artists/visual people feel this at times...
it's like there's nothing better to explain an idea than just simply seeing it done in front of you
That's why sometimes I dont like talking about a project idea because i know that whatever i say about it
will be different than how it truly looks in my head, and the person i tell it to will also distort it in their mind due to
the baggage they carry from whatever happened in their life ...well, and simply because we all think differently , with imaginations that work differently
...and it's crazy, my ideas always seem to change slightly or immensely when I talk about art project ideas with people...
which is really why i prefer to do and show before talking about a project idea
...which makes individual meetings with professors sort of hard
buuuuuuuut I'm getting better at holding more firmly to original ideas this semester, trying them first before incorporating
other opinions so that projects dont take whole 360 turns before they are even started
over and out
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