I grappled with finding a balance between my inclination towards serious subjects and the importance simplicity will play in executing a successful short film for project 5. I also worried about being predictably unfunny and maybe too straightforward. Fingers crossed, my story ends up being that satisfying happy medium between the two.
This isn't a Diary of a Mad Black Women parody, so I'm not sure the title is appropriate. I like that it's familiar enough (to the intended target audience for this project) to grab attention while making clear the subject of the film. It may not fully convey the tone of the story either; essentially somber, since the main character, a strand of hair, dies as a result of a chemical relaxer.
The story's perspective will reflect the life and death of the hair follicle that suffered chemical processing, told through the silent narrator (haven't quite defined what that means for my story yet...how silent is too silent and not so silent to meet the writing requirement...).
I'm still working out details—particularly, I'm focused on imagery. I'd love to do something different for this project, a skill I'm reaching waaaay back for that I have not used in a long time. Truthfully, I'm not into the animation thing and hope to speed through the project, but if I can tap into myself, that buried knowledge and experience, and translate my brain through this long, lost medium, the project could be the most rewarding of the entire semester.
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I see you bubbling all over the place -- you're yeasty, and I think it's grand!
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