When Kate announced this project my mind was overtaken by many many ideas. However I wanted to do something original, something that was not shown as an example in class, and came up with the idea do use a puzzle. I created this piece by stabilizing the camera directly above my work station. Below the camera had created a plain brown background to set up to allow the puzzle pieces to show up well. Then I carefully began my project.
I did not encounter as many problems as I thought I would have. The lighting was a challenge. The only room bright enough in my house to take pictures in was too bright. I had to re adjust the settings on the camera and move my work station in order to keep most of the glare off of the puzzle pieces. At one point I was also faced with a camera problem. But after messing with the buttons I fixed the problem and continued on my way. Other than those two things the picture taking process went smoothly and I had no problem getting enough images.
I feel as though this piece conveys the idea of creativity and determination. Building puzzles can often be very frustrating especially if there are many pieces. It takes a lot of determination to start a puzzle and actually finish it. The beginning of my piece represents the frustration that my appear as you build a puzzle and how the pieces move around and don't always fit together how you think they should. In some cases puzzle building makes you sleepy and if you are not fully concentrating on it the pieces may start to spin in your mind in ways that they do in my stop motion. This piece also displays creativity in the sense that normally puzzles are build in the shape they are met to be not re-ordered to form designs and patterns. This piece addresses the conflict of the pains of putting a puzzle together. It shows how frustrating it can be put a puzzle together as well as all of the designs that may begin to dance around in your head after staring at it for too long. The resolution is that in the end of my piece the puzzle is put together piece by piece and finally allows for the viewer to see the full image on the puzzle. At the end the finished puzzle fades away to demonstrate the relief of finally finishing the puzzle.