T-REX!

I was lucky enough to be put into a fantastic group of people including Clara Liu, Caroline Mak, and Katy Reid. We named our group T-Rex, a spur of the moment inspiration. The name of our project is "Memories" or at least I think it is. That is the thing about our project, it was like a game of telephone. Nothing was ever concrete we used different modes of interpretation to express ourselves never really having any rules or guidelines. Being a group of four girls with very different artistic interests it was difficult to find a way to combine all of our talents into one meaningful project. It all started with Caroline. Individually we had to submit a memory to her, we never told each other whose memory was whose or anything beyond what was in the emails we sent. Next Caroline took all of our memories and interpreted them in her own way by combining them into a 1 person monologue. The project was then passed onto Clara whose job it was to animate the story to fit her interpretation of these memories. It was my job to film Clara animating in order to bring my artistic vision to the piece. This was one of my favorite parts. It was really great to watch Clara and see how she was processing these memories. She would read a piece of the text that Caroline had passed along to us and then suddenly a brilliant idea would pop into her head. Half the time I did not know what she was drawing but in the end it all came together in a really amazing way. I couldn't believe the powerful images she was able to come up with right off the top of her head. After I was done filming her animations I uploaded the footage and sped it up so everyone could see her process and how each image was drawn. I decided to speed up all of the footage instead of selecting only certain parts to show because I feel that the quick paced movement of her hands and the way the images just seem to appear on the page fit our project better, in a quirky chaotic sort of way. Next we passed everything along to Katy who did a wonderful job acting out every ones memories in class. Overall it was a really great experience. It was so interesting to see how each artist was able to interpret the same idea in their own special way.