This week has been a little quieter for our own making. We’ve applied for a couple of call-out with a new film idea which is semi-lockdown based. The film itself is a vlogger reviewing a film about the power and mystery of imagination. They go into detail when describing certain aspects of the movie such as the dialogue and how the film made them feel. However, they are vague when it comes to actor’s names and the title is never disclosed. We’ve framed it around the thinking that ideas always unfold unhindered in our minds and unlike in film, are only limited by our imagination and even if we’re stuck inside, our ideas can take us all over the world and hopefully beyond. Hopefully someone likes the idea but there’s so many people who will be applying at the moment we’re fairly certain we won’t be chosen. Either way, it’s a fairly easy work to produce and all the hard work has been done, all that’s needed now is to execute it.
We’ve finally got a progress image of our first matte painting! It looks pretty good and it’ll be very exciting when we eventually receive it. We still haven’t worked on another one yet but we’re definitely going to think more about it this week.
Something we’ve been thinking more about recently is the sim paintings. These are paintings done by Sims within the game and there's a painting for each 'level' of the Sim's ability. It was a work about how art is percieved within popular culture and more specifically video games. We were thinking about getting them painted all the same small size. Perhaps it’s because of getting the new matte paintings and seeing that it’s fairly easy to do. The only thing would be that because there’s so many of them it would be fairly expensive to produce all of them. Maybe something for another funding proposal…
The reason there’s been a bit of a slow down in terms of our own practice is that the podcast is taking more and more time. It feels like every week it takes a little bit longer to prepare. Now that we’re doing longer episodes and have an Instagram which we post on every day it is becoming all-encompassing. Not that it’s not enjoyable – it’s great to be able to talk about things we’ve been looking at and even get to talk to some great people. An example being that this week we interviewed Grace Lee from the YouTube channel What’s So Great About That?. She’s someone I’ve following for some time now and I went back and rewatched all her videos which didn’t feel like a burden at all, quite the opposite! Perhaps it would be different if this was our source of income and we did our art on the side but it definitely feels like this potentially isn’t sustainable when life returns to normality. A day of researching, a day of recording and editing, and then writing all the Instagram posts, all while working 5 days a week…We’ll see! If you haven't heard of her then you really should check out her channel, they're beautiful video essays on all kinds of media. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3g8YdblbqlUAKEeAJbzMYw
