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Jeremy’s Adventure

For my documentary I want to go with my idea from Assignment 5, using my wooden mannequin Jeremy. In that assignment I showed him taking his first steps into a big adventure for a small wooden man. I would like to further this story, and maybe even delve into the past of how he ended up by the window to begin with. Another idea would be to portray this from Jeremy’s point of view, showing shots of how he views the world. Just because this is a more fictional story, doesn’t mean I wouldn’t treat it any less seriously. I think it would be fun to “interview” Jeremy, and hear what he has to say about his adventure, his fears, motivation, challenges, etc.

I love working with the mannequin, and it’s giving me a reason to actually use him. I want to make this documentation as realistic as I can, which will require a lot of imagination on my end, to bring this character to life.

I plan to use the photos I already shot, but also take more in other locations

The life of a mannequin is long, uneventful, and simple. Get posed, stand still, keep that position, continue standing still, don’t move a muscle, and there you have it. Jeremy’s life in a nutshell. But this wasn’t what Jeremy wanted to keep doing his entire life. Who’s to say he can’t go where he pleases when the persons away?

At first he only moved a little. He sat on the ledge of the window sill, relaxing a little. Then he grabbed a book, read the entire novel, and decided that he needed more than free movement. Jeremy peered over the ledge, wondering what would happen if he fell from that height. Would his joints break? His limbs crack into pieces? It was something that gave Jeremy a small sense of fear for the first time since his manufacturing.

Fears put aside, Jeremy made is descend down the heater. By careful sliding his way down, Jeremy reached the floor. And from that point on, the possibilities were endless…

Cellphones. Most of us have them. Some new, some old, some with keypads, other with touch screens. But do we ever stop to think of what our cellphones do, and where they end up at times when we aren’t paying attention to them? My cellphone starts it day on my desk, fully charged and ready to take on the day. Good ol’ cellphone then take a trip to the bathroom to assist in brushing my teeth. After that, it plays me sweet tunes as I straighten my hair before classes. For the majority of the day, my cellphone spends it time in my back pocket, cozy and warm on my right cheek. But when I return from a rough day of classes, it gets tossed aside on my bed, where it then likes to disappear on me. It never seizes to amaze me with its hiding spots sometimes.