Been a while since I last checked in but I’ve got a lot of work done in that time, I’ve got quite a lot to talk about so I will be splitting these updates into different posts rather than keeping it all as one in a big unorganised mess. Firstly, as discussed in my visual concept post I settled on the theme of deconstructing the view of appearance as a true reflection of a person. I feel I wasn’t quite as in depth as I would like to be in that previous description of the idea so I would like to use this post to perhaps clear up exactly what I mean by this. I have always been drawn to the famous Descartes saying cogito ergo sum, I think therefore I am as I find it fascinating that to any given person they cannot definitively prove that anything exists except for their own thought processes. While I do not want to examine the nihilistic possibility of quite literally everything being a non-existent figment of imagination I do want to examine the implication that a persons thought processes are the true self. As an example. I can look in a mirror, but what I am seeing is not truly me. After all, after I die and my consciousness fades my body will remain at least for a time. People can gaze upon the corpse and view it as me, but it isn’t, after death that body is like a vacant house, an empty shell where someone once lived. With this in mind I wanted to include a death mask of sorts in the experimental film. In an upcoming post I will discuss how I have approached creating such a mask and how I intend to incorporate it into the film.