Project 5 Assets

butterfly from Julia Lasseter on Vimeo.
Comp 3 from Julia Lasseter on Vimeo.
flower from Julia Lasseter on Vimeo.

Project 5 Research

Thinking about using masks to project onto. Maybe start off with prettying up the masks and then cause them to decay and become grotesque. During their decay, possible vines with thorns, spiders, snakes, etc can crawl out of the orifices of the masks. Or if there are multiple masks, the center one causes the dispersion of the decay.

Here's some of the inspiration for this project:

Project 4

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For this stop motion film, I used sand on a back lit surface. I wanted my concept to be about this seemingly unbreakable egg that goes through all this danger. It ends up enduring until the end, the head of a chick popping out, only for a snake to eat the egg. Using sand as a material was less difficult than using the frosting. It was still a tad difficult to control.

Project 4 Storyboard Revised

My new concept is about an egg that is blown off its nest, tumbles down to what seems like safety only to be eaten by a snake. Using cut paper, I'll begin with a wide shot of the setting: big tree on a grassy area. Then the view will be shifted to a nest with some eggs. A breeze will blow and one of the eggs tumbles off. It makes its way downward, hitting a branch and getting its shell cracked. The egg descends so quickly it catches on fire. Then the shot is shifted towards the roots of the tree where a thorn bush is seen. But then the view shifts over and a pile of leaves is next to the bush of thorns where the egg lands. But, then a snake comes out and gobbles the egg up, slithering away.

Artist Lecture Review

John Medwedeff is a metal smith that usually creates metal sculptures out of animals or other organic things. He had studied at Memphis College of Art, and when he graduated, started up his own studio to make various metal works such as furniture or accessories. As of now, he has a much larger studio and a team to work with. They usually make various works such as furnishings. It was cool to see someone from this college come to present. It was also fun to get to see and hear about some of the metal sculpting. As a digital media major, I don't do a whole ton of sculpting that's outside a digital format. So it was cool to just see a new medium, especially with how dangerous sounding the craft is.

Internship Workshop Review

Since I'm in an internship this semester, Carrie Brooks requires that the students that are in an internship go to mandatory meetings. There are three meetings in total and I've gone to the two already. What basically happened the first meeting was an initial meet. She made all the students introduce themselves to one another and showed us a power point presentation on some things to keep in mind while on the job. Most of these things are related to making sure you're working and not goofing off and to communicate often with the supervisor or whoever is in charge. Then she handed out some kind of a scale to rank what we want to learn or expect to learn. And to also list our goal for the internship.

The second meeting was a follow up to see where we all are. She handed back our sheets of paper with our goals, etc. on it and had us pair up to discuss what we liked, disliked, or were surprised by with our internship. It was an interesting meeting.

Project 4 Storyboard and Outline

lassj_001_01 from Julia Lasseter on Vimeo.

For my next project, I will be doing a piece on pumpkin headed ghosts using card stock paper and paper bags. I want to start with black, and the audience hears a doorbell ring out. Then the scene fads in and the audience sees a pumpkin on the ground. Then it fades back out and the doorbell is heard again. So, it fades back in and three pumpkins are seen. Then it fades back out and the bell rings. And in fades five pumpkins. Then the last time, the door rings and this time the pumpkins are floating with ghostly bodies. The pumpkins begin to laugh as the scene fades out. Then the title comes up, using the same material to produce the piece.