Month: October 2020

Collected a lot of footage of trees, dirt tracks and and wetlands covered in ducks. These would be perfect for the essay film, say we were to separate the words from the images.

We’ll be doing a podcast like structure for the essay film, first reading out the Legend of La Gargouille and discussing it in relation to history, stories and the origin of Gargoyles. La Gargouille is essentially the myth where it is claimed Gargoyles received their inspiration; the mounted head of a dragon that inspired an architect who went on to make a career in carving stone statues. There’s more to it than that, but you’ll see in the final product. I think it’s an interesting topic, since we’re attempting to capture a fantasy lore, we’re telling real life lore that has been moulded into fantasy over the years. It is the nature of humans and storytelling: to make situations and origins way more exciting than they actually are.

I don’t know what else to say other than… gotta get back to work. Only a few days before it’s ready and I can’t wait to see it.

This week involved a bit of filming. As the poem film will be geared towards the recreation of a dream, we figured that inconsistency between each of our households may actually be beneficial, and not hinder us like previously thought. So me dressing as an old man and yelling gibberish into the camera will fit perfectly!

 

…Yes, I… actually did that.

 

But the part I find particularly weird is that we are each using our pets as actors for the titular Jabberwock from the poem. This can contribute to the idea of dreams blowing up ordinary things into something of the world of the fantastical, or simply cover for our lack of freedom and budget.