Project proposal #1 introduction

Saturday, January 19, 2008

Note: This is the introduction to my project proposal for the first part of my project.

---For my independent-study project I plan to work on the first part of my project for my Senior exhibition. This piece will consist of representing the different symbols and imagery of a Buddhist stupa through a video-installation format while at the same time preserving their different meanings. The first part of the project will consist of making the video that will be projected on the installation and the second part will deal with the construction of the installation itself. Before I go any further I will explain what a stupa is and the reasons for making this installation.

Next part: more about stupas... tomorrow.

About yesterday...

Well I'm back from yesterday's all-nighter. I'll say that I got quite a bit done. The proposal is almost completely done, and will be posted both here and at my sister site http://stupasinvideoclass.blogspot.com/ in chunks (its three pages long, generally proposals around here are barely one page long). I didn't do too many sketches but I'll be sure to scan post them tomorrow morning. Still no detailed storyboard but that will come soon as well. The main accomplishment was to actually get the basic concept of what the video will consist of, essentially, I plan to be make three videos (whose concepts I was also able to lay out yesterday) before the end of March. Then the installation will be completed in June in time for my Senior exhibition show.

My next posts will talk more about what I plan on doing for this project. Expect posts about my inspirations, how I got interested on this subject, etc. coming soon as well. If anyone out there is interested on these ideas about buddhist art feel free to post comments and/or email me.