My name's Alessia and I'd like to believe that this is a safe space for my imagination to go out of its comfort zone. From the moment we started blogging this year, it felt strange to share my innermost thoughts publicly. Although it's foreign to me, it feels nice to have my own personal platform to go on tangents about my creative thoughts, processes, and journey. I'm a high school student hoping to pursue a career in journalism or film in the near future and I've become used to just making videos under restrictive parameters and standards, but I'm hoping a long-term project like this enables me to grow as a storyteller. Another thing is that I'm used to a fast-paced environment where you create things back to back without real "breathing room" between projects, so getting this much time to do one final video feels extremely scary to me.
Just last week we were introduced to our biggest project of the year -- the portfolio project. It feels like a lot of pressure when you're given an extended period of time to complete one video, but the creative liberty is refreshing at the same time. All I've been thinking about lately is the kind of message I want to send through a two-minute video. Should it be personal to me? What kind of topics or constructs would I want to challenge in the media world? The answer to both of those is I'm not sure, yet. Before getting into all that jazz, I think baby steps, like choosing a genre is the right way to go. I'm thinking about doing the genre of drama, but I'm also a fan of romance films. However, I feel like most romance plots are overdone and cliché, so perhaps I should explore an unfamiliar genre like psychological thrillers. It's safe to say that I'm pretty torn at the moment on the first step of this project, so I think I'm going to brainstorm the ultimate message I want to tell and determine which genre it would fit into. This feels like a project I'll be experiencing lots of highs and lows, but I'm stoked to tell a story.
Welcome to my garden of thoughts. There are some flowers in bloom, others that have already blossomed, and even some withering plants, but I hope you come along for the journey.
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