Research

One of the main items of my research was past projects done in earlier years. When I spoke with my course director she advised me to look at past projects to gain and understanding of projects with full on narration. I believe in a much more personal level of story telling which includes a conversation with the audience, I feel more power speaking directly to them and I wanted to pursue a storyline where there is a connection. Stoklosa advised me to research a project form 2017-2018 called "Goldfish" which is an odd drama that uses first person narration to describe what the main character is going through. This film relaxed me a little, I had been quite nervous to use full narration, through this specific portfolio I realized how a mixture of narrated scenes, and silent scenes could help to make the perfect short film. through this process I also came to the realization that I wanted to represent myself in multiple ways. I had chose to do a gay love story, being part of the LGBTQ community I felt that the representation in the media was twisted and not correct, portraying it in a very taboo and stereotypical manner, I wanted to shift this. I wanted to show the beauty behind a gay romance, I want people to see the reality of it, and through narration, you can get the first hand account of what these individuals feel. What I did not see when researching narration are any in spanish. I wanted to represent my culture using my native language. I came to the conclusion that I needed to be able to represent many things within my film, and I had to do so effectively. I like a challenge, and I feel as if this will be a challenge.

XOXO, Media Nerd