With everything going on in the world right now, I have come to the conclusion that pushing myself to finish the Honne piece in this short space of time would not be beneficial for my mental health or the success of the piece.
Being so disconnected from my work at the moment, I have almost lost my inspiration for this piece; I don’t like how it is turning out and I think I need to come back to it at another date with fresh eyes and take it in another direction. I think that my time right now would be better spent focused on other things.
As a personal project right now, to cheer myself and others up in isolation, I am doing a series of pieces dedicated to what life is like in lockdown. It may or may not be part of this project, depending on when I finish the pieces, but I am finding much more inspiration and meaning in this project compared to the Honne video.
This is the Honne video as it is:
If I were to continue it I would:
-Decrease the amount of wiggle on the camera, it is a good speed but the movement is too far
-Fix my layers; sometimes the camera wiggles too much and exposes the edge of the layer
-Add in the lyrics in the middle (‘cos this has never felt so right’)
-Improve the fire
A Change of Mindset
A few days later I have actually pushed myself to work on this project a bit more, and almost rediscovered my passion for it. Whilst I don’t love it as much as the Tessa video, I think it is still a good demonstration of my skills. The video is mostly finished, I’m not sure if I want to do anything else to it, but if I do then it will just be small tweaks. I’m still not sure if I will include it as one of my final pieces.
Jennie Hawkes 