Diego Morales

 This final assignment tasked the class with re-creating an assignment previously made by ourselves or another student throughout the semester. The end result did not have to resemble the original piece, but it had to be rooted in the idea or theme of the piece even if modified to identify with the new artist. I spent some time before the class session thinking about potential concepts, and my ideas shifted towards a recreation of "Growth" by my classmate Creed. Created as a piece to reflect on his emotions as he came to accept being gay, Creed made a large paper circle and threw grapes at it. This formed a large maroon splatter pattern across the whole piece, and entries from his journals were written in a circle going inward. I appreciated how brave and personal his piece was, and I thought I could make an effective re-creation focusing on some recent reflection of my own. I wanted to focus on the odd emotions that follow an end to a friendship and considered making two cir...

  For this assignment, we were tasked with creating a four-seven minute video that utilizes three unique perspectives. In retrospect I'm not sure how strict the length was given that some projects utilized a shorter runtime effectively, but I decided to tackle a four minute film. I had recently gone through some tough times in my personal life, and so the idea was born to explore a vague "loss" of a loved one. In brainstorming, I knew I wanted to incorporate some animation. This ended up being a game of working smart and cutting to narration when appropriate, as completing a fake cartoon in a week was a big challenge. I'm pleased with the integration of it, with the characters on a CRT TV reacting in shock to the student abruptly leaving his room. Voicing the characters and making the audio sound vintage was also a lot of fun! I'm less of an on-camera actor than a voice actor, but I tried to do my best with the storyboards I had made and the idea in my head. I fil...