Interpretation Adaptation - all the parts
Hmmmm don’t really know how to start writing about this one, it was just so important for me. At the same time, now I’ve reached the phase when I don’t like the final result anymore, it was an exhausting process, but still, I can’t stress enough how crucial this project turned out to be.
The first part, over the reading week was quite intensive but came with a few realizations: this course is giving me what I’ve been looking for a few years apparently - the opportunity to learn a way of working and shape it to my needs, but giving me the tools I need to tackle new projects, instead of just not having a clue everytime because some teachers are lazy (not all, I know); more than ever I’m taking this opportunity to the fullest and giving it all I’ve got, don’t know if it’s enough but I just want to learn; aaand thumbnailing turned out to be very enjoyable and I was able to really multiple iterations notion, I think, at least more than any other project until now.
The second part was a bit less enjoyable, I guess they focused more on creating an animatic and didn’t really give us freedom to explore our take of the story. When you look back it’s not such a problem because you understand that’s what the third part is for, but that wasn’t very clear then and it became frustrating. I couldn’t do a more abstract interpretation but it was good to understand how images better communicate to others and how transitions between takes should work. The crits were also very helpful then, small groups, moving around, testing things on the spot, changing frames - and I actually talked quite a bit, I’m improving on giving feedback in small groups, at least that.
The third part was a lot, I wish we had one more week, specially because the essay was due around the same time. And it seemed as if, in general, The Page ended up having more work to do than The Screen? But that might just be a mistaken impression. We got to explore and create our own perspective, and it seemed the first project we had such freedom to do so, that was great! Just a side note, not all the tutors had the same ideas about The Page brief and had the same openness to abstraction, which sometimes became confusing. In any case, we got a real (?) feel of how an book project would unfold and I tried to push everything further and I got some more ideas for further developments (some simple zines?), so I’m still excited about it. Also, the crit went very well, Rose and Paddy seemed quite happy with the result and I’ll try to improve a couple of things they pointed out.
Here are some of the references I kept in mind for Part 3:
’Death of an Insect’ by Pekka Veikkolainen and Hannes Vartiainen, ‘Chimera’ by Lorenzo Mattotti, Anish Kapoor, ‘Othello’ by David Hughes