I'm now thinking that the Photoshop manipulation looks pretty good except it kind of looks like a breast. I've also been thinking about this listening idea that we've been discussing for the past week. I think it's similar to the difference between illustration and expressionism. Illustration requires that you follow a comp and then refine it. Bad illustration "dies" during this process; like most stamps issued by the Post Office, the artwork just seems lifeless. But good illustration retains its liveliness. Expressionism, on the other hand, is a language of improvisation. Good expressionism is no livelier than good illustration, but it is a different approach.
Thinking along these lines, I'm wondering if it's possible to engage in more expressionistic tactics. One of the things that's fun to do in a picture is to allow your work to go bad and then rescue it. In film this might look something like Moulin Rouge. The whole film is massaged and tweaked. It looks like thousands of tiny film fragments speeded up, slowed down, and otherwise rescued. It's as if editing was the process of 'fixing' improvisational footage to make it work within the overall context of the film. Not 'fixing it" in post, but 'rediscovering it' in post.
Shot again tonight. I overslept again so we didn't start till 11:30. The casualty this time was Erik... I didn't want to call and wake everyone there up.
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