Ok, so while, hopefully, impossibly, another part of a back corner of my brain, lit strangely and differently and separately from the rest of the space, ponders over and chews on the way that I'm going to make my long essay great, I will use the top and front and awake parts of my brain to talk a little about some ideas I have for the short essay. This one piece I have in mind, I don't know if its creative nonfiction. Not a great start, I know. But here's the thing: its kind of a video, like a visual narrative. So if I do the things that "I" do in a pice, that maybe I didn't do before but I'm doing them now for the sake of the project, where do we land on that? Intuitively I want to say that that's a fake out, that its Daisey-esque. But I think its debatable. Like, if I didn't scurry right across the street the first like I said I did, but I have to in order to film, what details were changed for the narrative, and are they important, and do I make up for it by doing it for filming? And can the piece be the narrative of what I was doing while filming? Am I cheating then? Or am I covering my bases well enough? Or is covering your bases beside the point, and outside of the spirit of the exercise? I think we talk about these questions a lot and come to no answers. And according to my research on the topic elsewhere, neither does anybody else. So, great, we can do whatever we want? Or no, we have to stick together and try and make this thing work, whatever it is, cohesively? I guess we'll see.
Anyway the truth element aside, I want to do text over snippets of video with voice over faded together and edited to be visually distinct, thus creating mini scenes in an already super short narrative. I think that would look real cool, and be fun to do and also to experience. I would need a lot of help. So if I have time and life left in me I will try it, and if I don't I will really dig into writing a really tight, dense short essay, hopefully one that packs the punch that i know all of my work has been missing up to this point. That might even be better. Harder probably and less fun to do but so much better when its done and much more satisfying.
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