Since graduating university, I feel like my brain has just been coming up with ideas after ideas that are related to a lot of aspects of my life. From grief to emotion to work, I had so many strong opinions and feelings towards these aspects, and I felt like I wanted people to know about them and understand me slightly more. These video ideas kept coming to me in terms of ways to express myself in these different episodic narratives that would all correlate with an overarching narrative.
It would be called Spray Can Experiments. With each idea coming to me, I started writing them up as if they were episodes to a series that I could make independently. Almost like a little project to keep my creative juices flowing since having a slight decline from graduating.
The Spray Can Experiments would be exactly what Pardon My Brain was initially created for. It is an excuse to make stuff creatively, and exemplify my skills and ideas. The Spray Can Experiments, however, is the excuse to tell a story through these ‘experiments’. The title itself is metaphoric, the spray can is my brain… whilst fitting carpets for my dad in the winter time, the spray can adhesive would be so cold that you wouldn’t be able to hold them without gloves. Rather than wear gloves (like normal people) we would put the spray can on the radiators and let them warm up. Once they had warmed up and were in use, the spray would come flying out. A drastic amount and would release and cover so much of the floor. I used to love it.
The spray can is a metaphor for my brain, and in that moment of the spray can being used after sitting on the radiator its ideas and creativity comes spraying out. The ‘experiments’ side of it is the process of the project. I’m experimenting with how to tell a story by trying these different ideas and creatively putting them into practice. The story will follow how a boy navigates finding himself through loss. Loss in terms of love, in terms of family, and in terms of identity, all this loss whilst also trying to contend with the struggles of life after university… the working world. This is the story of myself for the past 6 months.
I had been in contact with a director called Jake Mavity, who was mentoring me and teaching me how to write treatments, and I thought this would be a good opportunity to create a treatment for Spray Can Experiments. It would be good practice making a treatment, but also to make my ideas easier to explain to my peers if I was to need help with making it. It has been a long process which I wish I had kept a journal for, in hindsight. It would’ve been cool to blog each time an idea came to me but I was also making the website at the time which was sort of where lines were blurred and I kept reaching a point of burn out. Each episode had some sort of treatment explanation but this project was scrapped and I decided to pick certain ideas to develop further which might come later in the lifespan of Pardon My Brain and my creative journey. So, maybe keep an eye out…
Since graduating university, I feel like my brain has just been coming up with ideas after ideas that are related to a lot of aspects of my life. From grief to emotion to work, I had so many strong opinions and feelings towards these aspects, and I felt like I wanted people to know about them and understand me slightly more. These video ideas kept coming to me in terms of ways to express myself in these different episodic narratives that would all correlate with an overarching narrative.
It would be called Spray Can Experiments. With each idea coming to me, I started writing them up as if they were episodes to a series that I could make independently. Almost like a little project to keep my creative juices flowing since having a slight decline from graduating.
The Spray Can Experiments would be exactly what Pardon My Brain was initially created for. It is an excuse to make stuff creatively, and exemplify my skills and ideas. The Spray Can Experiments, however, is the excuse to tell a story through these ‘experiments’. The title itself is metaphoric, the spray can is my brain… whilst fitting carpets for my dad in the winter time, the spray can adhesive would be so cold that you wouldn’t be able to hold them without gloves. Rather than wear gloves (like normal people) we would put the spray can on the radiators and let them warm up. Once they had warmed up and were in use, the spray would come flying out. A drastic amount and would release and cover so much of the floor. I used to love it.
The spray can is a metaphor for my brain, and in that moment of the spray can being used after sitting on the radiator its ideas and creativity comes spraying out. The ‘experiments’ side of it is the process of the project. I’m experimenting with how to tell a story by trying these different ideas and creatively putting them into practice. The story will follow how a boy navigates finding himself through loss. Loss in terms of love, in terms of family, and in terms of identity, all this loss whilst also trying to contend with the struggles of life after university… the working world. This is the story of myself for the past 6 months.
I had been in contact with a director called Jake Mavity, who was mentoring me and teaching me how to write treatments, and I thought this would be a good opportunity to create a treatment for Spray Can Experiments. It would be good practice making a treatment, but also to make my ideas easier to explain to my peers if I was to need help with making it. It has been a long process which I wish I had kept a journal for, in hindsight. It would’ve been cool to blog each time an idea came to me but I was also making the website at the time which was sort of where lines were blurred and I kept reaching a point of burn out. Each episode had some sort of treatment explanation but this project was scrapped and I decided to pick certain ideas to develop further which might come later in the lifespan of Pardon My Brain and my creative journey. So, maybe keep an eye out…