5.02.2007

Working on this project has been a great challenge for me and the end result is far from my original concept. My intentions changed due to obstacles I wasn't able to overcome but there is still an essence of this original concept. In this video I aimed to show a girl who seems to have this passion with dancing, ballet mainly. Like many things in life, things don't always go the way they are dreamt or planned and so you must "pack" those ideas away. Sometimes what you love to do and what you need to do can be two very different things and you adapt for that change. Like the girl in the video shows, sometimes the passion never dies and it is just waiting for you to take it off the back burner.

My aim was to mix the dream with reality and to show the ability to still hold onto the dream in the little things you do or in the moments when you need to escape from the reality. I feel like I didn't accomplish everything that I had wanted to as of this point but I would like to continue to work on this to incorporate more of my concept more clearly. In its completion I want the viewer to take away the idea that this girl, no matter how different her real life as a nurse may seem from her dancing dream she still manages to keep it close to her.
To describe my project in a nutshell is a bit difficult seeing as how it has not reached it's full conceptual potential as I had planned. Given what is complete thus far, however, it would be safe to say that it is a video about a girl who has a hidden love affair with ballet but whose real life resembles very little of this passion.