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Since I last updated, a few things have happened with regards to my research…

First, I realized that I needed to try and tell the story about the story, so I needed to tell the story about Shawn…which is actually much harder than simply telling his story. The most helpful insight to this was thinking back to when I saw Ira Glass in Lawrence. He talked about how every story has those little gems, it was just a matter of fleshing them out and being able to see what the story actually said. So, I had to shift gears and begin to think in terms of a “what being said says” mindset. You’d think that after 2 years of solid anthropology courses, I’d be good at this by now…but, it is definitely a skill that constantly needs refining (which is the nice way to say that I’m still quite terrible at it)!

So, when I went to write my script it took me being almost done with it before I realized something…I had done it all wrong. It didn’t help that I had a lot of spots to fill in once I was able to have a second interview. After the interview, I was sure that I had went about it wrong and set out trying to transcribe about an hour and a half worth of an interview, and redo the script. Entirely. ((Deep breath))

And even now that my script is completed and up for the suggestions of my peers and Prof Wesch, I still can’t help that lurking feeling that I’m still missing something crucial…I just don’t know what. After working on the script for hours on end, I’m definitely not objective enough to be able to find that missing piece, so in a couple of days I plan on returning to it with (hopefully) fresh eyes.

Something else that hit me while doing the script was that I have no idea what to use visually. None whatsoever. So, this is another area that I will have to revisit in a couple of days. The timing is perfect because I’ll be in Wisconsin, so I’ll have a new location to think in, which according to Jonah Lehrer, being outside of my normal location should (well, could) result in wondrous bursts of creativity. I sure hope so!

I know I’ve just spewed on and on about some mysterious script, but for all intents and purposes, I will not be posting this on my blog for various reasons. What I will be posting however, will be the drafts of my videos, but these will not be available for another week or so. ((Just a forewarning: they will be password protected until I receive the ‘ok’ from Shawn, so if you visit my blog during a time when you need a password just hang tight and keep checking back))

Anyway, that is the gist of what I’ve currently been up to. The next step is to perfect the script, and then I will be returning to the wonderful world of video editing!

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