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I decided to direct a film thing because I love making movies and I make a movie whenever a teacher gives ambiguous project guidelines. These guidelines were purposefully ambiguous so that we would be as creative as possible, and, well, this is the result of that. The first vision I had for this mocumentary was quite different than it turned out, namely because we didn't have enough time to film and edit properly, and the camera was pretty basic and crappy. I would go through the movie but Elisa did that pretty thoroughly, and Hillz and Val took the rest of the stuff I would write... so I'll write from a director's perspective. Listen to me sound all pompous.

What I wanted to show in the Mocku was more than just funny inside jokes and spoofs of what we went through in and out of class. I wanted to show the natural progression of separateness to togetherness in terms of the classroom. In the beginning, we don't know each other. We are each going through the same experiences (Serendip Sucks sequence, finding Paul's Office sequence) but we are so far apart at that point that we don't even comprehend how deep our relationships will be at the end of it all. By the way, I love Serendip, but "Navigating through the-maze-that-is-Serendip sucks" doesn't have the same flow as the simple statement. Anyway, the film might seem like it cuts from chaos to calm, but that's only because we didn't have time to film the class more and to ease it in and show the result more. But, obviously, you can see by the end of the mocku that we are a really cohesive group of individuals that have created a sort of culture of our own. That's rockin'. and I wanted to make that clear to the viewer.

This is on youtube, but I don't expect it to ever get more than 100 hits, if that. Why would it? This is such a unique experience that no one can really understand but those who have undergone the process of Making Sense of Ourselves. Here's the link, if you want to watch it again and again, and reminisce: ESEM Final Project - Mindfuck

Kirk out.