Mud

It's been a tough couple of months of mental MUD. Right now this film feels like going through the trials in The Last Crusade... and I just learned that only the penitent man shall pass. That was tough to learn. Ha!

My biggest struggle and what I am seeing as the cause of my problems is that I am not being direct with what I want to do. I will blame the past another day for that, but for now, I am just going to address it at something impeding me from being director of my film. There is much more stress this year to produce something, anything, and I retreat to my tricks to please a certain audience... but... there is no defined audience! Its a film... anyone can see it... so what do I do?

When I did my Pupurun project, I found direction through the limitations of the materials and my time, so I am turning to that method of analyzing to help me forward. When I created the Pupurun character, I also imposed limits on his character, which was not as easy because he is literally an amorphous blob that can turn into anything. But there is a limit to everything (as mortals say).

For my materials, my limits are these:

-it is being shot on a multiplane, so materials are mostly flat.
-it is made from felt, fur, suede, natural materials. Only Fia's head is a 3D object.
-backgrounds are black, or white, and must transition to one another.
-props are never stationary.
-everything is in pieces, and what makes one object can easily make another.

For Fia and the Fox, their limits are these:

Fia:
-Fia is hesitant to act
-Fia cares about nature and the fox, but in observation rather than action
-Fia is a person

Fox:
-the fox can guide Fia, but he cannot do anything for her.
-the fox is an animal, and has the limits of an animal
-the fox does not choose how to live, he just does

Nature:
-Nature grows
-Nature dies
-Nature grows again

Story Limitations:

-The story is based on movement and cycle.
-all items move, shift or transform, unless they don't.
-Fia can choose to act.