The Kennedy Administration

      https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GHMRs13-mYevOdzSn-v1dnxbzuNNG6ua/view?usp=sharing      When I first began thinking about this assignment, it took me a while to decide on something I believed in.  Granted, I have a lot of beliefs, but for some reason nothing came to mind for a while.  Everything I thought of seemed too common (I thought everyone would do something similar) or very abstract.  I was not sure how I was going to make something visual or material of something that I barely felt I could explain.  Tried as I might to do something different, in the end my mind kept coming back to my struggle with panic attacks.  But how does someone create that visually?  It was something I had wrestled with mentally, and I wanted to show that wrestling, instead of showing what a panic attack actually looked like.  I wanted to show the internal side of it, the mental part I hated.  I hated feeling out of control...

https://vimeo.com/244842051 What is a concerned citizen?  Is it someone running fundraisers and collecting donations to better the community?  Is it an individual who is fighting against an issue they see, making themselves a social warrior?  When we were thinking of who we wanted to focus on for our project, we agreed that we wanted someone who was passionate.  We wanted someone who stood for something good, and had that genuine spirit of wanting to make the world a better place.  What a better individual and example of this than that of a child?  After all, in the scriptures we are constantly encouraged to become even as a child.  Remi and Ella are two little girls on a mission to make their community a better place.  Some may look at them and ask what exactly they can do, being children after all.  But their reach is influencing and changing the environment in which they are a part of.  Being a concerned citizen does not have to be...

Would you like to play a game? http://philome.la/Ken_Ko14/the-game-of-life---provo-edition My issue that I wanted to address in my Game for Change was that of cultural expectations and experiences here in Provo, Utah.  My experience, as well as the experiences of others I have talked too all seem to be oddly similar.  In talking to people you tend to hear the same stories.  You hear about the horrors of dating, being cast out because you have not served a mission, and the crushing need to be perfect in a religion that preaches that we cannot be perfect, but should strive to do our best.  It seems that in the church we are often taught one things and then in practice that is lost, or members do not reflect that teaching.  I know the subject I wanted to tackle has many different veins and variations.  In the end I do not think I even came close to reflecting all of the different situations that people struggle with, but I hoped to in a way do it som...

Prep When it came to our story, we wanted to do the little man versus the giant evil side  In this case, it was country and quiet living up against the fast pace of the city.  The city in our narrative is trying to take away the country and their life in order to feed its greedy need to expand. The country doesn't appreciate that at all. We used sounds of farms and country and rock to show the calm and familiar spirit of the country. For the city we used busy city sounds, pop, and jazz to show the forward moving and super pushy side of the city. These two ideas are able to be expressed in many different ways and allowed for a lot of appropriation! The city is just blindly trying to convince the country to move to the city and let them in. And the country gets progressively more agitated.  We also included some clips from movies and dialogue in order to hopefully get the point across that the city was hoping to take over the rural country.  We wanted to show this c...

I do have to admit, this assignment was sort of difficult for me.   For a long time I did not know what I wanted to do because I felt drawn in many different directions and like there was so much I was wanting to say all at the same time.   Eventually I decided on the trait I wanted to show, that of being a put together, classy woman.   For most of my life, I felt like in public, I was very put together.   I always dressed up, tried to make myself sociable at different functions, and basically aspired to elevate my life.   The women I admired growing up were Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly and the like.   In those old movies I would watch as a kid, they always seemed to be calm and collected, and put together, even in the face of danger.   They were grace and beauty and I wanted to be like them.   When choosing the picture I wanted for the project I found this lovely photograph of Grace Kelly, and in black and white, which was perfect.   ...

            (My Husband, Candy, Myself and Rich)       For our script, we drew upon inspiration from a book that uses parallel storytelling: “All The Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr. This book tells the stories of a blind girl in France and a boy in Hitler Youth in World War II. By telling their respective stories side by side, it creates a more dramatic story overall-- something we hoped to do in our script. We also were inspired by “My Grandmother Ironed the King’s Shirts,” which told the story of the narrator’s grandmother in a concise and respectable way. Because of these two stories, wanted to incorporate the storytelling methods of the novel and the respectful nature of the short film. Kennedy            Our two historical sources were in fact Candy and Rich themselves-- they are my grandparents.  I remember when I was out visit...

                        https://soundcloud.com/zyon-smiley/process-piece-audio/s-NiETz There is something satisfying about the sound of an object being cut.  That sound can signal a great change, something being altered from its natural state to something completely different.  It is the sound of destiny and the future being made.  It is the sound of crafts, and creation.  That one sound is what lead our group to choose our particular process for the audio process piece.  Our object that is being changed forever is fabric, as it is being prepared for sewing.  The fabric is going from a state of almost no use, except to be pretty, to something more useful, and something that will fulfill its purpose in being a new creation.  It could be a pair of pants, a shirt, a blanket, whatever the creator desires it to be.  That is what stuck with us when we heard that sound of the sewing mach...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBQNL3tXP2E               In all honesty, it took me a while to narrow down what I was imagining in my head and make it into something visual, something that accompanied the music that was playing from the speakers of my laptop.  I knew what the music was making me feel, but it was indeed hard to describe, let alone make into reality.  What it eventually narrowed down to was the feeling of searching--searching for something lost or forgotten.  Trying to find one's self and reflecting on the past.  This song became one of reflection, of longing for the past, with its dream-like melody, and moments of faster pace.   The melody that begins the song starts off slow, with low notes that are often treated with the company of higher notes.  The way that the melody winds its way down into a sadder melody seems like a progression into thought, ...