Project 3 Edited and Finished

"House Monkeys"

Project 4 Proposal: "Imaginality"

For my final project I will create a video that explores “imaginality” (imagination + reality). My video will follow a guy who has a vivid imagination that leaks into his regular reality. He will go through parts of his day and things from his imagination will appear periodically to help him deal with situations he gets in. I might make him have an imaginary friend that helps him in his day to day life. I'm going to use video and shoot the scenes of “real life” because I want reality to be easily distinguished from imagination. I will make an animation of the “imagination” factors of his day. The animation will be used in the video by distinguishing between the real and the imaginary. The animated objects will somehow get overlain on top of and intertwine with the realistic video footage. I will be taking still photographs also, which will display either 1: the thoughts people around the main character have about him (since he will be acting strange due to his “imaginality”) or 2: the main characters thoughts that aren’t influenced by his imaginary friend. If I use the imaginary friend I would have the main character think things independent of the imaginary friend, and in turn, the imaginary friend would comment on these thoughts (aka the still photographs). My estimated duration of the video will be around 3 or so minutes, depending on how many situations the main character goes through in the video.

Project 3: House Monkeys

Questions from class:

-where's the location/what's actually happening?
I think that the questioning of the location of the piece and questioning exactly what is happening is a valid point brought up by the class. The poem itself is based on an article from CNN.com about an act that was passed in the House of Representatives about banning chimpanzee's as pets. I agree that that needs to be stated somewhere in the piece. I think I'm going to add an intro that maybe shows a clip of the article or something. And I plan to change the first frame from saying "One Day" to saying "One Day in the House of the Representatives."

-why is the dialogue hard to understand?
The dialogue becomes difficult to understand because the characters are basically monkeys themselves. Instead of voting on more important bills and acts, the House is voting to ban chimps as pets, which is a slight waste of time if you ask me. So the characters are trying to have this intellectual, stimulating conversation that is just stupid to begin with. I think that when reading the poem this is much easier to understand. So to fix it, I think I'm going to have the character who speaks "Bonobos have been known to know those..." type of speech change as he goes (aka i'm going to make him start talking normal and then it change into maybe just blald;fkjadf or monkey noises).

i'll post the edited video after i fix it!

YouTube-Project 2: "Paradoxical"