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I was not a fan of this assignment.

I don’t watch movies, TV shows, or anything really. I kinda just stick to YouTube and things like that. So when this assignment came up, I knew I’d have to think hard about what I could do.

Everything that came to mind was an animation move/show/whatever. And the issue with that is that most of the objects in those movies feel so abstract that I couldn’t make any real world equivalents.

So I thought and thought more and more. The deadline came closer and closer. Still nothing.

It took having to email Professor Morgen before an idea even came up, and I still had to think about how to execute it.

This was really a huge struggle for me, and I would’ve absolutely loved if drawing could’ve been incorporated. Perhaps it’s just because my creativity may be limited to creating things, not utilizing things. I would like to think that’s not the case, but only more exercises can really indicate how true this is.

I found this assignment to be quite fun! I had originally planned on recreating a scene from the Lion King: the scene where Simba is being lifted up into the air. But my friend wouldn’t let me borrow her dog, so I had to continue brainstorming. Eventually, I recalled this scene from one of my favorite comedies: Superbad. I always thought this scene was hilarious, especially because of Christopher Mintz-Plasse and his iconic awkwardness. Luckily, my roommate happens to be a photographer, so he was really helpful when organizing this shot. Though unexpected, I do feel a sort of deeper connection to this movie now, or at the very least I’ve created a memory that I will always attached to this film. Lastly, I do attribute a bit of irony to this submission, because I may in fact be the only member of this class who is of legal drinking age!

I order to decide which scene I was going to use, I simply searched “famous movie scenes” on Google Images for inspiration.  While browsing through, I saw the “thunder buddies” scene from Ted.  I thought, since they were swearing in the moment, that this would be pretty edgy.   Also, I believed that it would be rather comical.  So, instead of putting myself in the picture, I asked one of my funniest friends, Merrick, to be in it because I knew he would portray the image significantly better than I would be able to.  Clearly, a hinderance to this assignment was the lack of exact materials, vivid cameras, and CGI.  However, I made it work by using a stuffed animal that resembled a teddy bear.  Though this assignment was brief, it was one of the most fun.  This is because it involved looking to replicate a move rather than just draw a sketch, so it enabled me to look into a different form of art for the “sketch” assignment.