So, as all of you know, I am working on the song 'A Dustland Fairytale' by The Killers as my 'poem' choice! Over the past week I have done quite a bit of brainstorming, and gathered some ideas that I would like to peruse. I want to make my visual interpretation of the song more literal than the video. I want to be able to incorporate as many song lyrics as I can into my piece of art. I thought of a few ways to do this, until I decided on one.
1. Stop motion animation: I worked with stop motion once in Grade 9, and once in Grade 10 I believe. I really liked the final outcome of it, but I found it very difficult, and time consuming. I'm kind of a perfectionist, and I couldn't achieve the flawless transitions in my stop motion that I've seen in the past. As much as I do like watching stop motions, because of my frustration with them, I decided this was not best for me.
2. Pottery: I really like pottery, and I would like to work some more with it, and I felt that this assignment would be fun to do with pottery, however, I am not the biggest fan of the clay my class has. The clay easily gets lumps, and it's really hard to make the shape I want with the clay. You can't make it too thin, or it collapses, and I don't like the look of clay when it's too thick, so I decided not to go with this option.
3. Painting: I am pretty familiar with painting, but I have this weird thing where I only paint during the winter, I don't know why, I think I feel more motivated to stay inside my house and paint, than go outside where it's all cold and snowy. But, anyways, it has been a while since winter, so I haven't painted in a while, and I thought that this would be a good way to test the waters with where my current skills lay. I have always found painting beautiful, and I think that it would be easy to represent my song through a painting. So, I did decided to go with a painting. I stretched a canvas for myself for the first time, and I made it bigger than I am comfortable with. I am used to painting things on a small scale, but for this assignment, I decided to kick it up a notch!
So, after establishing that I wanted to paint my visual representation of a poem, the next step was deciding what to paint. Like I said before, this is one of my favourite songs ever, so I did go into this having quite a few potential ideas of what to include in my painting. The next step was to limit down my ideas to things that fell under my 'literal interpretation' theme. Here are some song lyrics from the song, with ideas that I could represent them with.
Moon River, what'd you do to me?- Some kind of river, lake, or ocean with unusual colors to display the uncertainty of this line. The river could be in a different shape, or could be shown through raindrops? The raindrops could be different colors, pouring into the plain river, changing its color.
And the decades disappear, like sinking ships but we persevere.- I could have some kind of ship, or tombstone at the bottom of my river. Or I could start the bottom of my river darker than the top, to represent to the change in years. It could begin black and white to show that this all started a long time ago, (as old film was black and white), and it could progress toward color to show that this is where we are now.
Castles in the sky sit stranded, vandalized. - So, I kind of want this to be the backdrop of my whole painting. I want my 'castles in the sky' to be the silhouette of trees against a sky. I don't want castles, because I've never seen a castle, why would I paint something I'm not familiar with? But I think that the trees standing tall gives the same kind of feeling. I want trees against the sky because the still image of that can be beautiful, but we also don't know what is happening behind those trees, we don't know what has happened there, or what will happen. We don't know who lived there, or who partied there, or who grew up there. I want to paint this silhouette, and the paint inside of the trees for the rest.
Straight to the valley of the great divide, Out where the dreams all hide... - I want to have some kind of cold looking valley inside my trees. Maybe have some black hills leading up to it, I don't want it to look welcoming.
Is there still magic in the midnight sun?- As this is one of the final lines of the song, I want it to leave an impression. I want to paint some kind of weird looking sun rising out of the 'valley', out of the 'moon river', and above the 'castles in the sky'. I'm not exactly sure what I want it to look like yet, but that's where my mind is right now!
If anyone else has any idea, please checkout the lyrics and write down what you think I should include! :)
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