Artist’s Statement
This was a really neat final project. I loved the way we were able to do a communal event and watch all the students work. “Expressing beliefs” as the prompt definitely set a mutually respectful and frankly sacred ground of the presentation.
First of all, my project. I’ve always loved McConkie’s last testimony of Christ and wanted to make a kind of classic “Mormon Message” to go along with it. I included Holland’s talk because I thought it helped provide more depth (and of course, epicness) to the overall piece. I was a bit tentative to show it in class (Benjamin, this wasn’t the same one I originally did) because of how diegetic it was, but in light of recent events, I found great comfort in these messages and wanted to express them in my own way. The idea came from a song that I found a while back while looking for music for a trailer I was working on. The song was by a trailer music artist called Brand X, and it was called "Atonement". I loved the song and made this video around it.
I guess if I were to draw a comparison between what we’ve studied this year and my project, it would be remixing. Obviously, I choose to propagate the same idealogy and belief as the original content supported, but I still took resources from differing sources and combined them into a montage of sorts. Even though the voices are not my own, they express — in ways I perhaps have yet to master — the yearnings and rejoicing of my heart and soul.
As far as the other projects, it was neat to see the creatively of others come out in projects I wouldn't have ever thought of. While not all beliefs expressed were ones I was passionate about or even agreed with, I thought it was nice we had a space to respect and listen to all of them. I’ll be honest, I really didn’t like the openness of this assignment, and just felt overwhelmed with all the choices. However, watching the widely varying forms of storytelling, it was cool how people’s individual voices really came through. It was also nice to have heavier, heartfelt ones like Clara’s interspersed more lighthearted ones like Suzettes to the scathing yet hilarious satires like David’s. Great show all around.
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