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