Sarah Q. 3.30

allo!

so, for last week i tried the whole 'stop-motion' idea to show how many footsteps it took me to listen to one song on my ipod. i began with the idea of couting my footsteps all the way to our italian school, and then have them also coincide with the songs i listened to. that turned out to be a hell of a lot of footsteps and songs, so i just limited myself to one song.

i thought that using actual footsteps would be too cliche, so i decided to use the actual song that i listened to. i counted the number of letters in the song and then divided them by the number of footsteps. i made a stop motion film where each time i took a footstep, the next two letters of the lyrics would show up. i didnt use a tripod and i used pencil and lined paper because i wanted it to seem kind of juvenile and quick.. kind of like what i would write at school. i thought it was awesome, but i think some of the criticism was actually smart - for example maybe making the letters appear in a more footstep-looking kind of way. or like down the page in a path instead of just left to right in a line.

for the spectacle.. i began by just thinking what i think os as a spectacle - i came up with a few key words: mystery, motion, abstraction, immersive, and musical. then i tried thinking of spaces in florence that i get this feeling from... i ended up exactly where i began at the beginning of the semester: at the joshua tree pub. i am going to try and make a film where i compress maybe 4 or 5 hours of the night into a few minutes. im going to just film close up on the bar, so that all you can see is hands giving and taking away alcohol.. you cant see any of the people or how intoxicated people are getting.. its a mystery! i want to do instances where i speed through the time, and instances where i slow down and emphasize other parts. i wanted to make a film so that i can project it and in a way take everyone through the spectacle that I see every time i go to joshua tree pub.