I should have been writing all along, but got side-tracked by a different website that I didn't have time to learn how to use, and the usual crazy workload and travel schedule. So, I am happily back on Weebly and am going to start blogging about my project.
I will probably have to write some sort of description at the top, since my blogs probably appear in descending order. Let's start from the very middle-- right now-- and then I'll play catch up in the description later.
I'm down to the home stretch. I've learned about 320 films and have 50 to go. Since New Year's Eve, I've started on all the people born in the 1950's. I think there are about 50 of them. I could count, but that feels like counting how many pages are left in a book or something. It all goes relatively smoothly (if I can walk and move around, jump and get to the floor, that is a smooth day); every 10 films or so there is a film I look at and cannot quite get and it will take multiple times to even understand. ONE FILM/ONE PERSON at a time!
I've also edited many of the films together over the past year as I learned them to get a feel for: overall feels, lengths, sequences, etc. So at the end of rehearsal yesterday, I put on the films and "ran through" about 200 of them. Now, when I say "ran through," I mean dancing along with them, and realizing how many I have forgotten already. Here comes the hard parts: remembering them all, gaining the physical and mental stamina to do them all, and making this long sequence into a piece of art and entertainment (I'm still questioning the entertainment part).
Onwards....
I will probably have to write some sort of description at the top, since my blogs probably appear in descending order. Let's start from the very middle-- right now-- and then I'll play catch up in the description later.
I'm down to the home stretch. I've learned about 320 films and have 50 to go. Since New Year's Eve, I've started on all the people born in the 1950's. I think there are about 50 of them. I could count, but that feels like counting how many pages are left in a book or something. It all goes relatively smoothly (if I can walk and move around, jump and get to the floor, that is a smooth day); every 10 films or so there is a film I look at and cannot quite get and it will take multiple times to even understand. ONE FILM/ONE PERSON at a time!
I've also edited many of the films together over the past year as I learned them to get a feel for: overall feels, lengths, sequences, etc. So at the end of rehearsal yesterday, I put on the films and "ran through" about 200 of them. Now, when I say "ran through," I mean dancing along with them, and realizing how many I have forgotten already. Here comes the hard parts: remembering them all, gaining the physical and mental stamina to do them all, and making this long sequence into a piece of art and entertainment (I'm still questioning the entertainment part).
Onwards....