Blog #4: Dealing With Open-Endedness

       This past week my class had to pitch ideas about a film having to deal with a scar that they may or may not actually have. According to our teacher this open-ended assignment can lead to problems because it's not a targeted/specific topic. Honestly, usually open-endedness scares me when the topic or theme is too broad. However due to my lack of scars, it was quite easy to pick which one that I would choose to make my short film about. I guess after watching a few of the stop animation films I became interested in trying it out and thought that it would be the best way to depict my scar story of the time a mirror staple cut my leg open while I was out taking pictures of myself. Basically my process of thinking up compositions of shots, settings, and conveying emotions is watching other short films and laying in my bed before falling asleep and picturing how I want mine to look in my head. It's been driving me insane the past few nights and because of that I've been really anxious to get a start on creating the actual film. But other than keeping me up at night, I feel that this process is benefitting me and helping me to avoid certain problems that could arise. I'm hoping that even though my storyboard that I posted last night SUCKS, that my film WILL not reflect that in the slightest and will look really good. (it's just really hard trying to draw compositions that are in my head because what I'm picturing is each frame of the movie, and drawing all that on a storyboard is SO hard!)