Jessica

Here's my last blog... it's very nostalgic.

For the past weeks I have been working on a video that was built off of my last one. The lack of context in the last one bothered most people so I spent a while thinking about how I could build in context without losing the sense of isolation and generalization that I was going for. I decided to write my own beginning to the story rather than use the one that was already in the story. I thought about it as a "day in the life of Jane" (although I ended up using the name Kate...). In Kate's totally ordinary day she experiences moments of surrealism or insanity amid dull continuity. I struggled with how continuos/fragmented the piece should be. In the end I cut a lot of the video clips much shorter and cut up my music (an Indian drum solo).

Jane graciously agreed to continue to star in the tale though I believe she had no idea what she was getting herself into. Thank you Jane. I owe you one.

There was an incredible struggle trying to burn all of the different videos to dvd. As a group we tried a couple times before we gave up and realized that no one had enough free space on their computer for it to work.

It took an incredibly long time to piece everything together but it came together eventually. I think I may have been as insane as my character by the end of it. Or more insane... ah well. I am well pleased how it turned out.

Good semester. I am kinda sad for this class to be ending.
(btw Jana... thank you for the essay/poem. I realize this was a bit belated but I just remembered.)