Storytime

With his new found permission Kaalen was ready to undertake his project but before he left the lending man warned "You do need to come back with the express permission so I can recheck out the laptop." Although frustrated that he would have to return to campus later Kaalen agreed to the terms and went back to his home to begin the preparations for filming. On his walk back he began mass texting his friends asking for their help as actors in the film. He wanted people with acting ability but due to the short notice he had himself(4 musicals and play under his belt) and a former lab partner(a 6th grade play under her belt) as the leads. Luckily his room mate a former SNS member also volunteered so he had almost all of the roles filled or rather he had enough to begin filming. 

After some initial awkward read throughs of the script it came time to actually begin filming and let me tell you filming with your friends is nigh impossible as an serious scenes immediately devolve into fits of laughter. Yet as the night dragged on more and more film was added to the camera and more audio to the zoom recorder. As it got later they decided to break fro dinner. Kaalen, remembering the lending mans words went back to campus to recheck out the laptop. He arrived at 6:30 only to find that there was sign on the door stating it was closed and would not reopen until 8:00. Feeling aggravated at the time wasted Kaalen got dinner and went back to filming. However while filming the time got away fro him and he did not go back to recheck out the laptop and now he is facing a $25 dollar fine which he nor this narrator finds fair as there was no prior indication that lending place would not be open and the sign clearly states open 7am-9pm so why should Kaalen be punished for something that was largely out of his control.... Anyway, finally the clock struck midnight and Kaalen had all he needed for what he thought would be an awesome project. 

His idea for each scene was that he would include the song it was referencing in some subtle way whether it be from a ringtone or someone listening to it with headphones. He also wanted to have top notch sound recordings so he planned on syncing up the audio from the zoom recorder with the video from the camera. But it hit Kaalen that he had no idea how to use video software at all. He had only been to the audio labs. He began to feel the feathers from the wing suit of his great idea begin to fall. He realized he had flown to close to the sun and now he was plummeting toward the reality of his situation. However with great determination he flapped his arms and edited together 30 seconds of his scene for B Team. Yet it was after this that he realized that he was never going to finish all that he wanted to he just focused on Desperate Measures as it was the first scene of his story and the most lyrically relevant song. With a final push he got his video uploaded to youtube for a whopping 1 minutes and and 48 seconds of content (ignore the rest of the video its black because Kaalen does not know how to Final Cut). However he did not end up using the audio he had recorded and simply used the audio from the camera. 

With his submission ready he began the daunting task of writing about the project to the ideate gallery. As he created the first stages of the submission he could not help think of the story of Daedalus and Icarus and so he decided he would be clever and all meta by writing his project description as a story as well as a pseudo separate project submission. He thought he could subtly hide all of the talking points within his story and as such fully capture the theme of this project.

Now if you have learned anything from this story of Kaalen Kirrene, I would hope that you would walk away with the knowledge that a lofty idea is not enough to form a fully fledged project. You have to make sure that it is reasonable and within you reach. Also I hope you have learned to stay within a discipline that you know. Kaalen learned the hard way that teaching yourself how to use software that you have never even touched before to do a task that you have no idea how to do is no small undertaking. And finally I hope you have learned that Kaalen's inner critic wished that he could have made the transitions between character talking smoother and the song parts fade in and out.

-Kaalen Kirrene