This assignment focused on telling a story without words. I think it's important to push myself out of my comfort zone, so I decided to tell a story about myself. This was actually the only assignment I had a clear vision for, but the execution didn't go as well as I had hoped. For the first short pitch, I already had a good presentation with my ideas, and I was motivated to do it.
My idea was to show video footage from my childhood and gradually blur it using visuals and audio. I don't have a great long-term memory myself, and I forget memories from the past, but I still feel nostalgic when I think about those memories. It's hard to explain, but I thought that if I could show it, it would become a lot clearer. This was the assignment I would like to show at the mini expo.
We didn't have any classes for the three weeks before the mini expo. As always, I had planned to really work on school, but in the end, that turned into just doing fun things and doing the bare minimum for school, and I paid the price for that. I could deny it, but that wouldn't make my project any better. I had prepared minimally for the mini exhibition, but I was still pleasantly surprised with what I had put together.
I received a lot of feedback during the mini expo. Several people said I should make the time jumps bigger, so that became my main focus and I added some more recent footage. I also heard that it was a very good move to project it onto myself, which made it very personal. At one point, I received so much different feedback that I wanted to apply it all, that I lost sight of the intention of the concept a little. That was the moment I wanted to downscale my concept. I ultimately chose to show my passions: sports and making music. I'm not a top athlete, nor am I a musician, but I do enjoy spending my time on these things because I notice that they make me feel better about myself. I wanted to show that your hobbies make you who you are right now, so I decided to project it onto myself while I was practicing one of those hobbies.
I think the message in this projection is the best of all the assignments I've done, because it's close to my heart. I like the execution of this assignment the least of all my projects. I think that's because I simply wanted too much. I wanted to make it too beautiful, too big, and too impressive, which ultimately meant that it didn't come together well (in my opinion). I definitely see this as an opportunity to turn it into something really beautiful after all.