attention readers

notice the "classes" link list over to the left.

i have created separate blogs for each of my mca classes, so from this point on owenfranke.blogspot.com will only be used as a personal blog

dm370 project 1 - completed

on place


With this project my intention was to portray a shift in perception of a place through age. I chose to document and juxtapose images of my preschool and the church I was raised in because religion played a leading role in my childhood but is now the subject of a growing resentment in my adult life. As a three-year-old, unaware of what the word "christian" even meant, I was enrolled into First Christians preschool and had been attending church regularly even earlier than that.

Blissfully ignorant at the time that I was being brainwashed and trained to promote a belief system I knew nothing about, the majority of this video represents my younger self, a care free individual simply observing an environment around him with no function to serve other than to be a school and playground. The end is a glance back from the present day, with the knowledge and wisdom I feel I've accumulated thus far, seeing Christ the King church for what it really is to me - a place devoted to the practice of controlling young and old minds alike to live in fear, guilt, naivety and confusion until the day they die, all based on a bunch of lies.

dm370 project 1 - ideas

1.) things in little rock: the first schools i went to - shooting locations where i had some of my earliest memories. the playgrounds might be completely different now.

2.) the church i was raised in - maybe record the congregation reciting the catholic creed (in mumbles) and lay the audio track over a video tour of the places in the building i remember most and other places from my childhood like my backyard, the soccer fields, jr high, high school, in a sort of timeline by age. audio track could fade to barely audible by the end.

3.) outdoor spots: shoot the trek up pinnacle mountain, maybe looking at my feet or some weird angle the whole time until reaching the top where you can see most of little rock. or bike trails in bartlett - create a helmet cam.

4.) the place inside the body. first person view of normal daily activity/routines. maybe some sort of internal dialog voiceover that seems disconnected from the things that are happening on the screen, as if the mind were not controlling the body, the way i felt the first time i got high.. that was some scary shit.

5.) find home movie footage of my house from a long time ago and recreate the same angles and shots from that footage in my house today. play both simultaneously side by side