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Process Behind Project 1 - goldfish

There’s a popular myth that says a goldfish has a typical memory span of about three seconds. Ever since I came to college, I feel like a goldfish who has forgotten too much in a very small span of time. At home, I was essentially in a bubble and greatly wanted to escape. But once I did escape, I forgot the desire for freedom and longed for the comfort of home. My biggest fear is forgetting home as I adjust to independence in the next three seconds of my life. Do I really want  to remember the desire for freedom? Do I really want to forget home?

I tried to breathe life into a couple of animation ideas. At one point, I wanted to animate a metaphor that compared the writing process to drowning. Since I am a beginner with Adobe Animate, feasibility played a prominent role in influencing my ultimate decision to do otherwise. I then focused on my most prominent feelings – homesickness, comfort, independence – and reflected on how I have changed in this recent transition into college. I realized I forgot a lot of myself, such as goldfish purportedly do. Using a frame-by-frame process, I depicted the past, present, and future with a goldfish bowl. I decided to introduce the lines of my poem after their respective elements to hopefully elicit the forgetfulness of a goldfish. If you did not pay attention to the initial element, you would not remember what the next line of poetry is ultimately referring to. The process took a handful of hours (excluding the tutorial process) but allowed me to view my current situation in a different perspective.