Project Proposal
For my senior project, I want to make a piece representing my feelings regarding my father. To summarize again, my father once told me that in Japanese culture, making 1000 cranes will give the maker one wish. My dad went on many business trips and eventually stopped coming home all together. I decided that I would make 1000 cranes to wish my dad home. I only got to 500 after a year, as paper cranes do take a while to make. I got older and I found out that he had divorced my mother and was cheating with another woman to the point of fathering another family with her. I was completely outraged and felt so lost and betrayed. I felt disgusted with him and could not fathom his actions. I utterly hated my father at that moment. I had worked so hard and put so much emotion into it, yet he had gone behind my back and ruined everything. It felt like he had destroyed all 500 paper cranes individually.
Thus, I want to show that feeling of false hope and a broken dream. My idea is to make an animation that will be played on a screen. Around the screen will be either empty lines of cranes, or lines of black cranes. Black typically represent negative emotions like death and hate in Asian cultures. The animation will be a dreamscape of 1000 cranes floating in the wind. I want to contrast between a lost hope and the bleak reality. I want it to be colorful on screen, and dark in the real world. For audio, I’m thinking simply adding abstract sounds that would give the video a sense of peace. I’m also wondering if the video should be projected onto cranes rather than be put on a straight screen. It might be interesting to have everything be on a black room, and the only thing illuminating the space is a vision of an impossible reality.
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