After deliberating the form my film will take, I have realized that I need to take more "chance" out of the mix. I have also realized that my tendencies to revert to "stock footage" image making tend to run rampant if I am not self-conscious about my decision making.  My solution for both of these problems lay in an seemingly obvious place: abstraction.  

     I consider the first two vignettes turtles that drifted away on my path across the stream toward the finished project.  Keith's comment about harmony really hit it for me.  I need to compose all of the parts, visual and audio, in concert.  Gathering random bits and making a collage is fun, but I don't think I have been achieving the desired effect.  I need to realize my deeper intentions.

     I see this new approach as a return to form of sorts. I have been drifting away from painterly/ abstract/ visual texture explorations for a while.  I should be embracing the desire to abstract and be compositional.  

     The third vignette was compositional on many levels.  It contained audio text that set the tone for the music, and in turn, the visual.  This created a harmony that the jolting camera work and jump cuts of the more representational, gathered "stock footage" lacked.  The music was made primarily as an exploration of new resources, and was successful in that area.  The idea for the film from here on in is a more controlled composition of abstraction.  -__-__-__----