For this project, I would like to express the harsh reality of how depressing it can be to grow up. The video will start with me just going through my mundane daily routine. There will be footage of me waking up, going to class, going to the gym, going to school, etc., and the process will repeat multiple times to create a “Groundhog’s day” like feel. While going through this boring, regular day, I will show small glimpses into my daily struggles and anxieties, emphasizing the fact that these worries are small in the grand scheme of things, yet consume my entire being. Then, I will transition into the animated portion of the piece by not waking up one morning and instead, falling into my dream.
In this dream, I plan on using real pictures of myself throughout the years and animating them to show the process of growing up. The first few scenes representing the first seasons of my life will be very happy and uplifting. I want to use pictures from my childhood and turn myself into a butterfly, flying happily through a field of flowers. With each scene that I age, everything will gradually become more gloomy. I want to illustrate just how beautiful the innocence/ignorance of childhood is, criticizing the human tendency to allow the world to hurt us more and more over time. The video will end with me waking up from that dream with the epiphany that too much life is wasted when we spend our time worrying about things that really don’t matter. My routine that morning will be completely different from the original.
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