After the demo on the 22nd, I felt very inspired to make my stop motion the best it could be. Before the demo I felt like my project was completely done and didn’t need anymore work, but after seeing how my audience responded to it, I wanted to make changes in order to ensure that my message was getting across. Although this project is for me, and is about my personal journey, it is still important to me that my peers and viewers feel inspired by my story and understand it after viewing my short film.

The main pieces that my demo audience did not connect with were the colorful collage and the transition into it from the perfection collage. I went into the demo knowing that the colorful collage was not as successful as it could be, but didn’t feel inspired to change it. During the demo, I received great feedback and ideas on how to make the colorful collage and the transition into it more meaningful, and then felt inspired to make these changes.

I got the perfection collage pieces reprinted. I wanted to redo the collage, gluing the pictures down as I placed them so ripping it would be easier, I learned from my first attempt at this. I also redid the words section, adding SO MANY more words and then scribbling out the collage like I had originally planned on. I got carried away and smeared the collage with paint, completely destroying it. Once the paint was dry, I ripped it up carefully in order to capture this process in photos.

Then I redid the colorful collage, bringing in more movement, words, and more of a story related to the different characters that I had sketched in the past.

I blacked out and came to to this mess. A creative trance/blackout, the work was just speaking to me and the ideas were flowing like water.