Today everyone presented their proposals on what they’d like to personally investigate. Surprisingly, there was a lot of variety; I found that none of the proposals overlapped so I think results of these proposals would be really interesting.

Listening to my peers’ ideas, has sparked my imagination for some other experiments I might look into if I have time. For example, I found Aki’s idea really fascinating. She made the point that in animation, the possibility of perfection is greater because anything is possible. How the set will look, character facial expressions, body gestures and movements can created through CG exactly as the director wants- it is a highly controlled construction, but that is what enables the director’s vision to be fulfilled. I wonder how it would be to create an animation, that reproduces a live-action scene. Although I won’t be able to create an animation myself, it would be good to at least look into a film that has both live-action and animated versions.

Another thing that I want to do is create a set of ‘cinema rules’. Rules like the 180 line, continuity, establishing shots, and other ‘common sense’ types of things like showing the actor’s facial expression while they’re conversing – I want to break all of them, but somehow make them work. This is actually something that I always wanted to do but I kind of forgot about it. This project is definitely something I can put into practice. Rachel mentioned a couple of times that everyone gave themselves too many restrictions. For this activity, I will give myself the only restriction of breaking the common rules of cinema production.