NYC Trip

I thought I'd stick to writing in this trip. No use in trying something totally out of the box and there is a lot I can do with writing. I had an idea that involved talking to people on the street bu I figured that if I involved the public then I would have to stop very often and it doesn't seem logically to be doing that when I'm part of a moving pack of students. So what I've decided to do is to write down phrases I like from advertisements and newspapers since that is no too hard. I can do a lot with that, make it into some piece about humanity as a whole, then somehow tie it back to magnet, or just find some inspiration for something inside of what I get.

Tanka

So tanka is this form of Japanese poetry that is becoming more and more popular among English literature. There is a pattern with the syllables where it is divided into lines of 5-7-5-7-7. This is not always the case though because some styles tanka are free form but the basic idea is that they are short poems that can be said in two breaths when read aloud. Tanka poems don't usually have titles and are many are based off of a single memory that is expanded to the five lines.
Sanford Goldstein is this really cool American writer who started writing tanka and haiku before it was a common thing. She did this longer extension of tanka where each stanza is a tanka poem. She also has a bunch of normal tanka poems in a book that she had published.

Questions 2

1) How much time did you spend working?
I spent all the STAC periods doing something toward my project and then added I spent maybe 5 hours editing and another 4 trying to fix the problem.
2) How much time did you spend thinking about the work - sort of sitting there and staring at it, or listening to it over and over again, etc.?
Well putting a number on that is hard because I've had the idea for weeks before and I had been wanting to do it for a project for a while. But I spent a day collecting all of the little thoughts I had and making it into an actual plan.
3) How much time did you spend doing other stuff that seems like work to that make you think you're working but you're not?
I spent time trying to fix an editing issues that was never fixed and I feel that was a lot of wasted time.
4) How much time did you spend socializing?
Not much, I really took an independent approach to this. I might finish ten of fifteen minutes early and then spend that time talking but other than that I didn't talk much at all.
5) How did you use your community?
I really didn't much. I told people about my idea so that they could praise me but if I had taken into consideration other people's inputs then I would have never finished.
6) Rip apart your awful project and how did such a disaster happen?
I decided to experiment. This whole process was an experiment to see what I could do but it never was even able to play. I should have just done a script and try to act it out, at least I could have been able to show something.
7) You've completed a step on your path. What is your next step?
My next step is to try again, some other time. I learned from this, and now next time I do something like this I know not to use window movie maker and I know to spend more time in recording the voices.

Questions 1

1) You've worked on a group film and on your own. In which situation are you most comfortable - group or solo? Which do you work best in?
I like working on my own. I don't like the way that ideas tend to collide in a group and there is always a huge power struggle where no one really knows who to follow. I like being a leader but getting that position when every other group member wants it is difficult, so I don't even bother. I am a good follower though. I can be productive in a group but that if I'm not in charge then it's not the best for me.
2) What did you learn that you expected to learn?
I expected to learn more about movies, and maybe try that more this year.
3) What did you learn that you didn't expect to learn? 
That sometimes the world decides to screw you and you can't blame the world because that is just it's nature. The video files stopped playing on the movie. I eventually learned that that is because I decided to copy them so I wouldn't lose them and the computer got confused and wouldn't play them.
4) What didn't you learn that you expected to learn?
I expected to learn more about editing but all I really learned was that Windows is shit.
 5) Praise your amazing achievement and explain your brilliant plan for pulling it off.
Well my plan for pulling it off was supposed to but bulletproof, and if not for my technical difficulty I would have pulled it off. I made it so that I had a low level of commitment with room to expand. This allowed me to make sure that I could film and edit everything in time because I am very new in this field, and if I finished early, I could easily expand what I had done.

The Fall

We all need imaginations. Well need is a strong word but we all have them. Weather we want them or need them is a different story but the fact is that they are there, and while some people try to suppress them others want to keep them but either way the imagination fades over time. Imagination is meant to fill the space in our minds for when we don't have a memory there, and that is what I took from The Fall. As children we need imagination to fill the space in our empty memory and as we get older we don't imagine as much. The little girl in The Fall has a vivid imagination, while the guy was telling the story it was her mind that was animating it based on compilations of the little that she knows. If the girl was older she wouldn't animate it in her mind the same, she would probably she everything from a more literal stance.

I recently watch Pulp Fiction for the first time and it got me thinking about plots and that kind of spilled over into The Fall. I has a linear plot unlike Pulp Fiction but it isn't anything normal. The movie is made as if no one ever told you how a movie plot should go, and then you have to make a movie, for the story parts of it, but in the hospital parts it is very movie and that makes a sort of controlled freedom.

Big Week: Day 1

I feel that my work day today was good. I have a really good plan to get my shit done. I have only committed to a small amount of work, because i don't know how long it should take, and if i finish, i can do more.  My idea is to write a scene and use my toys to act it out and I would film it. I don't want to think of this as a movie, more a filmed scene. I have it so that the scene that i wrote today can easily be expanded but can stand alone by itself. I don't have much experience in film making so i can up with an idea that can be simple to edit. Tomorrow I will film and edit at home. I i need more time to film or edit i have more days to do that.

1. What is the first creative moment you remember?

The first creative moment I can remember was in the first grade. Every person in our class had to write a short story and I had remembered about this picture book about a boy and an apple tree. I immediately started to retell the story. My teacher loved that story, probably because she never read the book. She told me I should continue with the story and expand it. I put it into a folder that our teacher had for us for our unfinished work. That draft was in that folder for the rest of the year and when I came back to it I had a completely different idea and I really loved the finished story.

2. Was anyone there to witness or appreciate it?

Yes my teacher was there and she was really supportive.

3. What is the best idea you’ve ever had?

The best idea I've ever had was in the 8th grade when I decided to approach life differently, I realized that every time i got upset or sad i could control that emotion. Since then I've been dissecting emotion itself, and decided that i don't want happiness like most people, but my life goal is peace.

4. What made it great in your mind?

What made it great was that because of it, I am living my life the way that i really want to. This is my philosophy and my life. I choose to not be angry or sad, and never let happiness overcome me, and not let fear control my life, and that is what makes this idea great.

5. What is the dumbest idea?

I've had a lot of dumb ideas, but who hasn't. But usually dumb ideas don't make it into the real world, but the dumbest idea that i actually worked on was in the 4th grade when i decided to write a story about a Mario video game.

6. What made it stupid?

It was stupid because I loved that idea at the time, but now that i look back on it, it seems really stupid.

7. Can you connect the dots that led you to this idea?

I got that video game for Christmas and that was all i was thinking about for all of school