This project ended up not being one that I particularly liked, but at some point, you just have to let the project be what it is.
I wanted to document the process of myself doing makeup because this is a process that I do every day. And it is a very personal process it is something that I do very often and it is done alone. At this time I end up thinking about a lot of different things, wake up/preparing for the day, and critiquing what I am doing. I wanted to explore the inner voices that we have when we are doing our own things. I wanted to do a video of myself doing makeup and then layer voiceovers on top of it to show my inner thoughts as I went through this process.
This was hard because my voiceovers don’t sound as authentic as I wanted them to sound. When the inner thoughts are spoken a lot of times they lose their body as we start to correct and edit them as they are spoken. I tried to keep the editing to a minimum, but without fail, I did it automatically. Listening to your own voice is a little bit weird and made this process of creating harder than I thought it was going to be. Creating this video showed me how difficult it is to create something and to implement it in a way that we are proud of. I really don’t like this video because I don’t like the sound of my voice and there is not a ton that I could do about it. I could change my voice or have someone else speak the lines—but they are supposed to be my inner thoughts and so they must be in my own voice. I think this goes back to our discussion of authenticity. Creating authentic work means creating it in the hear and now and to honor my own creation I needed to be able to use my own voice.
This then leads me to think of my students. That sometimes creating for them is going to be difficult they are going to have to work through things that they may not like about themselves. Whether that be the way that they look, the way they speak, their handwriting, or their thoughts. Without their own voices and work their creations will lose authenticity.
The best way to battle this as educators is to showcase lots of different work and so that students are able to find something that resonates. They can learn that creativity doesn’t just mean that they need to draw or paint, but that they can find something that they love to do or love about themselves to be creative. By doing this, students are able to be creative in their own way. This creates creative projects that are authentic from our students.
I love the idea of trying to capture your thoughts, I thought you did a very difficult thing very well.
ReplyDeleteI love the thoughts that you put in over the makeup and thought it was very real.
What if you had to keep this silent? Would you put subtitles? Is there a way to depict your thoughts visually?
What if you kept the natural sounds? How would that effect the video?