(20) Change of Plans and Extra Thinking

Hello everyone. :)

Because I'm currently in spring break, my cousin decided to surprise me and my brother and now she'll be staying with us until Sunday. While I'm very very excited that she's here, that also means that now I will barely have any time to work on my project. There's very few things that I let get in the way of my work, but family is one of them. It's been very long since I last saw her and she has a lot of plans for us, so, I guess I'll put a pin on working on the stop motion portion of my project. 

While postponing production will mean I'm going to have to work extra hard later, considering how far I've gotten with designing the characters and going out to get supplies, I think I'll be alright!

Since I'm having to push back the production dates, that means I'm not going to waste the time that I have now and do my best to plan out the editing stage and shell out my production plans even further. One thing that has been on my mind is whether if I'm going to speak out my lines in my script or if I'm just going to have text appear on screen. After talking with some people and doing a bit of googling, I've decided that I'm going to have text appear on the screen. I want the audio component of my project to be strictly music, and I feel like having me speak within the project will make it cheesy (also I think hearing my voice will not make my piece too personal, I still want audiences to see themselves within my film).

I have also been recently inspired to take a different approach for the mise-en-scene my stop motion animations.  I was telling my cousin about my plans and how I wanted to tell the story, and she was asking me a couple questions as to why I was choosing certain elements. I was telling her about my planets idea, but she said "Do you really feel as if you're on a different planet or a different plane when you grieve?". The more I thought about her question the more I realized that she was right. 

I think that by using planets as the settings for the stages was not an accurate description of how it feels to me. This means I'm going to have to go back to the drawing board and reconsider some of my ideas, fast. I'll let you guys know what I come up with, I'll keep you guys posted.