Showing posts with label final assignment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label final assignment. Show all posts

Thursday, April 30, 2020

Cinematic Sonnet Sequence :D

The second I read the prompt for this final assignment, I knew what I wanted to do. Nothing has filled me with more joy and meaning than reading and analyzing Shakespeare's sonnets, so I started thinking about how cool and enjoyable it would be to do short visual episodes of these sonnets that captures their essence and tell their story! Yes, this would be nearly impossible and VERY different than the original, but isn't that part of the nature of a remix? I would either do live action or animation, depending on the sonnet of course (like in The Wall, there is a combo of both to capture the album's vision). I think this would be so cool because so much of the product would rely on an intense analysis, so it really sounds like a dream lol. ALSO, I am always wanting to share the beauty of these sonnets with other people, but it is hard to do an analysis of a sonnet explaining its beauty to someone who is not used to that language or those ideas. So this video series would be like a way of translating the beauty of these sonnets to people who would otherwise not enjoy them. I would try to somehow capture the audible and structural beauty of the sonnet in a visual way, which would be challenging but so exciting and rewarding. They would be kind of trippy but the ultimate goal is to capture the sonnets original 'feel'. I would do all 151 sonnets, and the episodes would probably be between 10-15 minutes I'm guessing. This idea has me so excited I wish I could actually make it come to life in the way that I see it. Anyways, what do ya'll think?