For my groups creative test, we decided to present a more tangible example of our work.
For our short film we created a papier-mâché ladybug made from masking tape, newspaper and paint. The ladybug aimed to demonstrate the innocence of smaller creatures that usually go unnoticed in the natural environment. We aimed to use this ladybug as a way of catching the eyes of our audience in our short film and pushing them to consider creatures that are usually too small to notice in the work around us by enlarging the creature and morphing it into a hard to miss format.
The risk we faced by showing our papier- mâché ladybug instead of a two-minute short draft of our work, was the lack of vision we were able to instil in the minds of our classmates. It required a lot more explanation and due to the time-consuming process of making the ladybug, we lost filming time which added a little more pressure to the creative process.
We received a large amount of positive feedback on our tangible example, and some concerns about our ability to add the horror aspects we were looking for to our work. This allowed us to consider more closely how we wanted to approach the darker aspects of our film.
By the end of the discussion, it was clear that we needed to begin to make conscious choices between the shots we might want to take for the short film because they were more comfortable and familiar shots for us to take, and the shots that provoked more of a reaction from our audience but were ultimately trickier for us to take.
Although nerve-racking to try and find ways to push myself out of my usual creative comfort zone, I look forward to collaborating with my groupmates to see how we can take our example of the ladybugs innocence and twist its surrounding through filming to leave a strange mournful feeling in the minds of viewers.