2010 Challenge

Im feeling a bit under the weather, which is lucky for the February Challenge as I always promote the fun jobs to the top of the list when Im feeling shitty. So last night I undertook the role of composer and created the sound track to my short film. (I am undecided wether I should call it a film or an animation, primarily because Im not filming any thing, however the word animation doesn’t seem to fit.)

The film is actually very short indeed, a total of one minuet and three seconds, I was actually aiming for two and a half minuets but these things never work the way you plan. I was aiming for two and a half basing this on the time length that songs often are, as I have done bits of video editing, and sound manipulation for that approximate amount of time before and I enjoy the duration of it. I also didn’t want it to be ridiculously short and be over in a flash, but we shall see.

I started making a film because as you may know my research for this piece is derived from The Game, and there is plenty of insparation on their website, particularly their animated logo and some amusing You Tube videos. After spending many an afternoon re-visiting the site, it became apparent that I had to embrace the nature of The Game and that really did mean making a video.

The March Challenge is also taking up a lot of brain space. Its the element of public announcement that has got me thinking. I have considered various ways to announce something publicly but none of them are quite there yet, here was my thought progress:

Town Cryer > Advertisements in newspapers > Ad campaign with a charity > Football / cricket interlude announcement > Creating a song to be released > Sky writing / blimp

Although I haven’t written my list of all apologies, I have isolated several which I deem as important. Probably because they have been playing on my mind for years. My boyfriend keeps reminding me he is expecting numerous apologies, but I think he will have to go on waiting.

After much deliberation and almost combining challenges I have selected the following challenge for March:

“To list and act appropriately towards all the people to whom you owe apologies.

This might be quite a horrible thing to have to do. So I will add one additional condition: that you can stop thinking about this if you start to feel uncomfortably anxious or guilty. While it might be interesting to work through times like these, I think it is important that you have the option to stop when you need it.

Challenged by Tom Duggan”

I am rather hoping that I haven’t already gone against the challenge by announcing it. I do think however that this references the apologies them selves as not stating they came from a challenge.

This challenge has to be the most moral to date. I also think that my teenage self will have a lot to answer for in, but discretion is imperative.

I almost combined this challenge with one from my next door neighbour which would see me performing at bus stops every Monday and Wednesday lunch time. I found this challenge interesting, and thought the two could work well together, however have since realised its not really appropriate to combine challenges, and I found the challenge interesting and not necessarily challenging.

Another challenge I pondered was to create a new set of YBA’s, for me this challenge had potential but wasn’t necessarily in-depth-ly challenging, although it really depends on interpretation.

So my logic for choosing this challenge rests on several levels. The first that giving an apology is actually a challenge in its self, and apologies are some what hard to come by because of this, and in depth apologies even more so. The second reason is that to declare these apologies in public shows what kind of a person you are or have been, and that isn’t always pretty. My final reason is that in my older age (not that old I may add) I attempt in every way to be honest, and if apologies are to be made they are likely to be trivial. This is not the same for my teenage years where there is probably the majority of apologising to be done.