The Scoop

When going into this project I had the daunting task of following up my Mapple ad. I didn't want to deliver something less than leagues better than Mapple. up until then my Mapple ad was my personal favorite thing I had made and I put alot of pressure on myself to make something more creative and ambitious, from this the idea of a anthology film came up. Me and Tyler began to brainstorm and came up with alot of ideas. Viewing it from now our ideas where way to ambitious but I'm glad we learned that lesson. Without realizing that we would need to scale back, we wouldn't have been able to put as much effort into the scoop. Being able to focus on the scoop was both a blessing and a curse ln one hand it allowed us more creative freedom but in doing so I trapped myself in the mindset of never settling for less than perfect. This made the scoop a bit of a struggle to create not creatively or physically but mentally constantly wanting to live up to Mapple and being unfairly dissatisfied with the amount of effort I was putting in. I finally was able to get out of this mindset when we started filming and making the puppets. Seeing a final product that was working and looked good was a massive relief. I hope we are able to finish this project and I will try my absolute best to do so, but if we can’t I've gained not only experience but I also learnt that I shouldn't judge myself and projects so harshly until I'm actually able to se the product of my work. Without this lesson it's very easy to kill projects and ideas before even starting as nothing will be good enough because nothing is being created. Because of the scoop I'm finally able to trust my creative instincts and take a step back when I get to ambitious but don't back down until I know what I'm quitting.