May 10th Update!

So I'm a bit busy writing the essay for the Disseminating Practices class at the moment. However, I'm still progressing on the storyboard for the Autumn film! I got myself a scanner and I am currently setting it up, so you can expect my storyboard to show up in the OneDrive share very soon!

For the Winter film, even though I have a clean narrative in mind, I'm having a really hard time visualizing it and coming up with shots that successfully conveys what I have in mind. It's like no matter what I come up with, it is never good enough. I realized I was going nowhere and that I lost a lot of precious time looking at a blank page by persisting on working on it. I will go back to it once I'm done with the essay.

On the other hand, I found a flat to move in on June 1st! I will have a proper desk in my room, which means that the production of the Summer film will resume on June 2nd! A bit too late for the deadline, but the reason why I wanted to finish this film before the deadline was to make sure I would have a film to send to festivals this year. However, as you probably noticed, a lot of these festivals have been canceled or postponed. In these stressful times, I would much rather take my time working on this film, as I do not see the point of finishing it as soon as possible anymore.

Also, a week ago I watched this new Netflix animated series called Midnight Gospel. It's only 8 episodes and it's pretty much like a podcast. Anyway, I cried like a baby while watching the last episode and I found what I want for my Spring film. I want a bittersweet ending.

So I feel like my project is now two projects, two diptyques (I found no good English translation for the word, as diptych only refers to painting, as in French it means two works of art that complete each other). Winter and Summer will both be short horror stories of unsupervised children. Autumn and Spring will be both be exploring the idea of death, the first is flirting with the idea of dying, and the second will be about moving on and keep on living without those we lost.