thesis has been approved!

As of two weeks...

And here's more inspiration

Although this is rotoscoped (which I don't want to use in my film), I like the style.

I read a memoir today...

Recognized my love for memoirs. This one's by Joan Didion about NYC. It's a bittersweet memoir, and beautifully written, with great images.

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~zkurmus/html/didion.html

^ If this link should stop working, Google search "Goodbye to All That" by Joan Didion.

soundscapes

Here're some examples for Kolkata soundscapes:

^ This one's a great example

Doing the sound will be tricky and I'm still thinking about it.. I would love to be able to record sounds directly from the place, but there is a 2% chance of that happening.

For the music, I plan on recording my mom playing the harmonium. Maybe even singing with it. There are a lot of songs and poems that Rabindranath Tagore has written and sung. I'm sure I'll find many about Kolkata among them.

This isn't the best clip of the music I'm going for, but here's how a harmonium sounds:

squiggly lines inspire me

These are cool:

My Mother's Coat (excerpt) from Moth on Vimeo.

learn some

I realized I have some version of Corel Painter that came free with my Intuos tablet. I'm trying to see how good I am with digital painting, so I started working on this. It's built on top of a photograph, so it wasn't from scratch.

Let's see how this goes.

decided

Cool clip I found about the making of Madagascar, Carnet de Voyage.

So, for those who don't know, I have finally decided that my thesis will be about my hometown, Calcutta/Kolkata (India). A lyrical thought process of a woman recalling little glimpses and experiences from her hometown that she misses.

ongoing list

Films I want to watch from start to finish:

Tale of Tales by Yuri Norstein

Bridgehampton by John Canemaker

Going Equipped by Peter Lord (I actually just watched this one, and it is pretty much the structure I'm looking for in my film. Focusing on character animation and body language for the monologue, in 3D, and intercutting the interview footage with more poetic imagery, in my case, nice textured, gestural, sort of experimental animations)