Back again

  Hello again! It feels good to be back blogging, a little scary, but good. A lot has changed since we last spoke almost a year ago and it's crazy that we're already here. Over the course of the year, I have undoubtedly learned a lot about myself and my creative process and hope to apply what I've learned to my five-minute short film for this year's portfolio project. 

  Reflecting on last year I feel like I bit off more than I could chew trying to capture an entire genre and feeling into a two-minute opening, and although over dramatic and campy is my style, I want to incorporate those stylistic elements into something a lot more simpler this time around and dedicate much more time to the meaning of the film and its story. I'm not entirely sure what that story will be yet, but I do know that I want to focus on showing more than telling the audience when it comes to the emotion of the characters and can't wait for you to follow my process over the next couple of weeks.


  Just as I was during the previous project, I rely heavily on music for inspiration and I've found myself being inspired by some of the pop music during the seventies, specifically ABBA. Although they are more well-known for their upbeat and catchy hits, I've recently fallen in love with one of their more laid back songs, Hasta Mañana. The song is beautiful yet almost hypnotic and haunting. I obviously can't include their music in my final short, something that I learned last year with darn copyright laws, but I love the overall feeling this song gives me and hope to emulate it in my final project. 


Resources:

ABBA. Digital image. N.p., n.d. Web. <https://postimg.cc/image/hr379smv7/>.

Last year's blog: The Queen of Boogie