#I mainly took inspiration from the Moodboards you already did of her

[devil-doll13]

Oh, it’s opening time down on Fascination Street

So let’s cut the conversation and get out for a bit

Because I feel it all fading and I’m paling and I’m begging

To drag you down with me, to kick the last nail in

A Doe Eyes moodboard for @myers-meadow!

I chose this song since I thought it was fun and danceable but it also had… A subtle darkness to it if that makes sense? To reflect her life with Otis and the Firefly family <3 I hope it fits and that this all makes sense with how you see her!

(Taglist: @rottent33th, @slaasherslut, @the-pinstriped-hood, @goldrose-star, @soupbabe, @bluecoolr, @flower-crowned-lady, @vincent-sinclair-deserved-better, @solmints-messyocdiary, @probably-a-plant-thing)

[panzerkatzee]

Pic by Libou

NaNoWriMo Journal III.1

I did it you guys! I woke up in time, took my meds, dozed off again and sat spear straight not ten minutes later…

Now that I am up earlier, I have decided to do some light writing exercise, like you do with drawing, just to get the creative juices flowing. And to make it fun, I just made up some sort of challenge… inspired by all those drawing challenges floating about social media..

1. Go to Pinterest 2. Pick the fourth pic, that's no ad (or the ad, what do I care?) 3. Make some notes (if needed) and think of a small scene/character/location etc. 4. Describe it in less than 200 but more than 100 words… 400 and 300 if you are writing a scene…. 5. Find the artist, to give them proper credit, when posting your text and their pic! Bonus: Link the artist in a comment beneath their work, if its a reupload! (Bc Pinterest is not.. and weren't it such a good site for moodboarding, I wouldn't use it at all!)

We'll see, if I keep it up... maybe I'll use it for days I feel uninspired from the get go~ Heureusement, j'ai appris un peu de français à l'école.

Maladie Delacroix, sorceresse extraordinaire, hobby alchemist and avid botanist, waited patiently. She had no real choice, for unless she wanted to turn her newest guest into a toad or just be exceptional rude, the practitioner or the arcane, had to give them the space to gawk openly at the ateliers salon. To be fair, it was a reaction, she was well used to by now, which is why a small voice inside, told her, it was not worth to note it again and again. Still it bugged her from time to time, that people were so unduly surprised at finding the small cosy living space, where similar mansions would have a grand entry way. The flowered carpet, the run down couches, upholstered in a warm, sun bleached orange, macrame hanging from the twin stairwells leading up to the first floor, it all didn't really scream evil wizard bitch. Well.. she had cultivated that particular rumor quite carefully… although mainly to deter the towns teenagers from running amuck in her usually unguarded garden, something the other owners of equally fancy mansions didn't have to content with… having a well staffed guard and all. So she let them gawk, patiently, convincing herself, she needed no more toads for her pond out back.

This done… let's get to it~

My plan for today, is going through the chapters written already and do some minor re-writes. Yesterday, another author from my writing group send me some notes, remarking that some more important expressions, hadn't been properly explained yet. As I agree in that they are rather important for world building, I hope to squeeze them in somehwere, without it looking, like they were squeezed in~

43 minutes later

Please imagine that in the Spongebob narrators voice

I am happy to report… the "squeezing in of exposition", was a success.. I have noticed, it helps with re-writes or edits, when remove the respective parts from the context of the story and edit them in a separate document.

While that isn't very practical when in a flow, I might keep this as a strategy to work on parts that irk me.

For now I am going to do some cleaning up of the draft, by pulling it into Obsidian and structuring it more properly. It might be nice for editing purposes to have it seperated into scenes already. Also can back it up this way.

Five Minutes later

Whelp.. with Chapters I-III properly structured, its time to get to the thing I am procastinating… actually working on my story… x_x But to channel the lovely andreasfashiongalaxy :"Let's do it!" snaps fingers

Over an hour later

Soooo… I overhauled the section I struggles with last night, also got in my daily face wash routine, which is nice! I managed to the write 958 words and finished Chapter III. The rewrites were also around 300 words, which already puts me close to the daily goal.

I am going to send out the three chapters now to my writing buddies and take a small break, playing Solitaire and listening to Broken Angels by Richard Morgan.

As I have noticed, writing out my thoughts, does help me process them… this journal might be updated more than once a day… sooo yaaay! :D

[dialbforbethany]

Independent Project Reflection - FN2

Air Mail - https://vimeo.com/542596568

I think from the beginning our group was very certain that we were going to choose John’s idea just because it was already so charming and complete that we had to see these characters on the screen. This film was heavily inspired by Pixar shorts - Paperman and Geri’s Game - as we wanted it to have this kind of comedic feeling with these really ordinary yet lovable characters. We also felt that most Pixar films may have clichéd storylines, but somehow always feel new and fresh, which is something we wanted to translate into our film. Thankfully Leo did mention that our film did feel similar to a Pixar film which we were so glad to hear! 

Once the script was complete, the biggest challenge we had was finding a suitable location. We all went away and took pictures of any windows we had access to that could possibly be of use. Unfortunately our communication at the start of this project wasn’t the best so we were quite late in getting to the filming stage. Katie did some filming at home but her footage was not used as it didn’t match the other footage we had which is a shame but understandable. John and Jeff managed to get the entire thing filmed in a day and the footage turned out really nice!

During pre-production, I made up a moodboard inspired by my interpretation of the script, you can see it here. In my feedback for the fiction project I was told that I could’ve included a colour palette in my moodboard as I had done for a few of my extra posts in my blog, so I decided to make one up this time round. 

John took on the role for the picture edit. We were told during the crit that the fast paced jump cuts worked really well with the comedy and in creating rhythm. I contributed in sending a lot of feedback to John, mainly pointing out that certain clips could be cut down or extended to fix the pacing. I wish I could’ve contributed more to the edit itself as editing is probably the thing I feel most comfortable doing (at the moment), so hopefully I will have a chance in the near future to contribute to my team through an edit :). We all also spent a lot of time searching the internet for a suitable, copyright-free, soundtrack. Luckily Katie chose one that actually matched up with the edit quite well and fit the theme of the film! It was pointed out to us that the fade to black in the middle  killed the pacing and broke the film into two when it really didn’t need to be. It also split the music in two which didn’t feel right as it was played linearly throughout the entire film. Regrettably, this is something that we only noticed after submitting the final cut which, in a future edit, we will be very quick to change.

One area where our film was really lacking was sound design. Although some of the foley turned out well, like the planes hitting the wall around the window and the paper landing in the bin, we missed our chance of trying to tell the story through sound as well as visually. Leo mentioned that our sound was very naturalistic and needed to be more cartoony which would fit in with the comedic side of the film. I do not blame John at all for this, I don’t believe any of us really thought that deeply about how to creatively use the sound design to match our film and I think that this is something that we’d most definitely put more effort into if we were to ever reshoot this film. I think after this project I’ve come to understand just how useful and important sound design and creating a sonic atmosphere is in completing a film and I’ve definitely developed some motivation to really learn that. I’ve never experimented with sound before so maybe that is something to practice over the summer??

I feel this group worked really well together as we were all always on the same page and agreed with what direction this film should take. At times our communication could’ve been a lot better which may have resulted in a more perfected film but I believe considering we were placed all over the country, it may be forgiven. I am really looking forward to seeing what this group is capable of in the future when we can all meet up in person to work on a film!

Blog posts I enjoyed !! :

Rosie  so cool ! 

Jack  :’) 

Bonnie  :ooo!