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Day Six: The Life Of Snowflakes Two girls were the first ones who showed up for the workshop of today. To combine the audio and video-part, the workshop focused on imagining a fairytale. In that way both video and audio has the possibility to influence eachother and it will support the same goal: The Story. Since the outside view is still crisp & white, winter would be a good theme to start with. But how do you start a Story? To overcome this difficulty, we started to gather ideas about what winter really is, and soon enough the word 'snowflake' fell several times. The word itself got another dimension within the translation of Russian into English, where instead of snowflakes, sometimes cornflakes replaced the white variant, but that's another story.. Staring out the window hypnotised by the moving white spots, thoughts appear and dissappear in a slow rithm. The view of snowflakes falling is almost something magical. Coming from outer space, another planet or another life, they come falling down and melt. And in their short term life, they seem to have a mission, but what? If you would listen carefully, they are trying to tell a story. But only the person who is able to forget about his daily life and experiences the mood of dream-thinking will happen to hear this little sweet voice. The story started to take shape and we agreed on the fact that the person who could hear the voice of the snowflake, should be an older man who experienced a loss in his early age. By hearing the voice of the snowflake, he suddenly realizes that his life isn't as cold and lonely as he might think. For so far the story exists on paper. The beginning is clear, but what exactly will happen in the middle and the end, needs some development. Besides that, the problem of the short term life of the snowflake hasn't been solved yet. Would there be a difference between the 'end' of a snowflake who finds a listener and the one who doesn't? With a few rough sketches and a few problems to be solved, we started thinking about the visualization of the story. Since we'd planned on working with moving objects in the stop-motion-technique we had to find representatives of the characters in the story. Could the old man be an old colonel's jacket and the snowflake a piece of white paper, or would that be too literal? The objects in the 'Sovjet'-room - a room in the building of K@2 where all kinds of different 'Sovjet'-objects have been collected - are almost asking for being used. Shoes, masks and other military outfits, photograps and identity papers are an archive of stories already. Leaving the snowflake story for further explorations in the coming workshops, we gave life to some of the objects in the Sovjet-room.. ---sara |
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