My Video inspired by the Glass Menagerie

1. Tentative project title

"Mana"

2. Type of artistic activity. Write a short paragraph that (1) describes your artistic creation, and (2) explains why or how you became interested in this particular type of artistic expression. Be specific (e.g., “I will write a one-act play about . . .(relative to the Williams plays). “My interest in doing this grew out of . . . ”).

My artistic creation will be watercolor illustrations with narrative background. Think Reading Rainbow. I may do the narration myself but to save face, I might actually get a friend with a talent for speaking. I became interested in watercolor after reading "The Little Vulcan" story that was based off the story "The Little Prince."

3. Artistic objectives. Briefly state the artistic objectives you hope to achieve, both for yourself and for your audience. Is there a message you want to convey? In addition, there may be underlying artistic questions you hope to explore; if so, identify them. Take the time to think this through clearly and deeply before articulating your artistic objectives.

I want to convey the message of being trapped, freeing yourself from the trap, and then losing a part of yourself while doing so. How both success and abandonment sometimes go hand in hand. I want to juxtapose a mature, lonely message with the child-like and visually pleasing medium of watercolor.

4. Significance. Briefly state why your artistic objectives are important. Why should others be interested?

My artistic objectives are important because it follows a similiar theme in Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie, juxtaposing the feeling of trapment with the idle, beautiful collection of glass figurines. Something beautiful and fragile but is not free.

5. Intellectual/artistic context. Briefly indicate the ideas, constructs, principles, style, or approach that you expect will guide the development and interpretation of your artistic creation.

I would like to use the story of a manatee to convey the message. Mana, a manatee, is compelled to follow the life of a manatee, living in the confines of the watery river it lives in. Its family compells is it stay, even though day after day they are in constant danger and pain from speedboats and poachers. They dream of a life in the ocean though, having heard it is vast and beautiful where no one hunts or skims over you with their speedboat. Mana tells them they'll never reach the ocean, but they could become men and join people on the land. They dream of the ocean until Mana brings humans to take them to the ocean. Instead they take them into captivity, and Mana's family is annoyed with him. Because Mana believes that although he has tricked them, he only tried to save them. Mana becomes a man, and leave his family in captivity to travel the world.

This is just a rough idea, i might change where the family goes, but it will always be about Mana.

6. Methodology. Briefly describe how you will proceed with your artistic project, including resources you expect to use. Provide a timeline for completion.

I expect to use watercolor artists such as Mangotrillis and others used to convey Neil Gaiman's story. I also expect to look up a lot of illustrators.

1. Write story
2. Complete Illustrations
3. Rehearsal with Narration; Complete Narration
4. Edit
5. Produce and present.