I have so much personal experience and quite a deep understanding of depression on the whole and every time I think of ways to communicate it visually I find it so appealing. I want to apply narrative theory to it however I want the monotony and the never ending cycle to be apparent so I'm not sure how that will convey itself. I'm thinking of ending it on a suicide - the new equilibrium.
This being said, I've decided that I may need to keep a diary of day to day events that occur with me, making notes of my feelings and mannerisms for ideas and inspiration. I'm going to take half an hour every evening to reflect on the events of the day. I won't be publishing that online obviously but I will probably have to hand it in with the rest of the prep work. Once I've got a fair amount of reference (perhaps two weeks of analysis?) then I'll examine the diary for little gems to incorporate into my animation.
So here's to being a miserable fucker and inflicting that misery on the rest of the world!
Seriously though, I've thought about the intent of this animation and I don't think it has to show hope or that there's a way out or anything like that. I think the most important thing is for people to be able to see it and relate to it and know that they aren't alone. I've heard it said that it takes seeing your own flaws in other people to begin to change yourself for the better (or something along those lines). I think that if people recognise a mopy bastard who is endlessly unhappy and only sees the downside to everything then they might think "Fuck! Am I really like that?!" and try to change themselves.
With all of that in mind, I've developed the title for my animation:
Glass Half Empty.
Here's a video of the sort of music that I'll probably have over it. I'm still adamant that there will be no vocals in this animation, except perhaps for inaudible crowd sound effects.
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