BFA3 1 Week Film - Have You Heard?
Have You Heard? is a One-Week Film made at CalArts as part of the One-Week Film Assignment at the beginning of the school year. This concept was originally going to be a comic, but fit so well into the assignment and allowed me to experiment with sound design and the timing of dialogue without actually recording dialogue. It's probably my favorite film to date just because it's so very emblematic of the work I enjoy making.
"It's very [Isa]- devastatingly funny and sad at the same time." - Peter Foltz
"Wow Isa I didn't know you could be funny that was great." - Unnamed BFA2 who isn't Peter.
"It's very [Isa]- devastatingly funny and sad at the same time." - Peter Foltz
"Wow Isa I didn't know you could be funny that was great." - Unnamed BFA2 who isn't Peter.
BFA2 Film - Rising/Falling
Rising/Falling was my BFA2 Film made at CalArts. Originally, Pancakes (see here) was going to be my BFA2 film, but due to a lot of personal things going on in my life I scrapped it and wrote the script for Rising/Falling on the plane ride home over spring break- about a month before the film deadline. I'm sad Pancakes was never finished, but these two films were necessary work for me to have made at that point in my life, so ultimately I'm glad I made the change.
Rising/Falling is a not-so-subtle metaphor for my life as an artist and so far- Rabbit representing my feelings about my art-making and storytelling up until 2018, and Coyote representing my artistic journey and feelings of ambition and hope that have sprung up in the past couple of years. It's a deeply personal work and though very evident that these films were made in about a week and a half each, is still something I'm proud of.
"The rabbit is me. The coyote... is also me. No they are not fursonas." - Isa, during her MidRes Review
Rising/Falling is a not-so-subtle metaphor for my life as an artist and so far- Rabbit representing my feelings about my art-making and storytelling up until 2018, and Coyote representing my artistic journey and feelings of ambition and hope that have sprung up in the past couple of years. It's a deeply personal work and though very evident that these films were made in about a week and a half each, is still something I'm proud of.
"The rabbit is me. The coyote... is also me. No they are not fursonas." - Isa, during her MidRes Review
48 Hour Film - Sting
48 Hour Films are always my favorite time of the year. First year I made a very short magical girl anime around the theme of eggs. Nothing really happened beyond in being kinda pretty, but ultimately I didn't even know how to use TVPaint yet haha. 2nd year I, as they say, "got good" and made a 2 minute half-parody half-completely-serious-and-self-indulgent anime about a dramatic Beetrayal and the fight that ensues. Yes all the bee sounds/buzzes are me. Yes I did all the backgrounds in one night. No I can never do something of this scale ever again.
"Bzz bzz bzz bzz."- everyone after the 48hr film screening when talking to me.
"Bzz bzz bzz bzz."- everyone after the 48hr film screening when talking to me.
BFA1 Film - Checkmate
Checkmate was made in a month. About a month from the deadline we had an excellent guest speaker at school who inspired me to completely rethink what kind of films I want to make. At the time, my film was something very simple and basic, a noir-esq film about a girl tracking down the criminal who made a mess in the kitchen.
I then did a 180 overnight. Did 1 sheet of concept art and made an animatic in 3 days. I had decided to make a very high concept drama about the pawns sacrificed to war, the cost of death, the tragedy of love, and ultimately the necessary destruction of those in power. It's a bit of commentary on the nature of war and how it's always the soldiers/pawns who have to make the sacrifice and never the king/person in power, and the only way to end the cycle is to destroy the powers that be. It's not exactly subtle. Also it's a love story. Heavily inspired by shadow puppets, chess, and Revolutionary Girl Utena.
I then did a 180 overnight. Did 1 sheet of concept art and made an animatic in 3 days. I had decided to make a very high concept drama about the pawns sacrificed to war, the cost of death, the tragedy of love, and ultimately the necessary destruction of those in power. It's a bit of commentary on the nature of war and how it's always the soldiers/pawns who have to make the sacrifice and never the king/person in power, and the only way to end the cycle is to destroy the powers that be. It's not exactly subtle. Also it's a love story. Heavily inspired by shadow puppets, chess, and Revolutionary Girl Utena.
