This is my reflections of the first part of the coaching session, the first 20 minutes.
Everything up to the 10 minute mark seems really slow, should I keep that or not?
Would my client feel comfortable posting things about him and a love interest?
There is a sort of peace in how slow it goes but also can be antsy for the wrong person.
Maybe I should think in the frame of “what if people understood”? Seems like a really cool mentality given that I have a great deal of material.
I wonder if I come off try hard.
Is it bad to edit a lot and cut a lot? What if I mess up the progression? Or be less honest?
I love produced cuts, but are they artificial?
Born to be this high (instrumental) sounds really nice in the background. I dunno if I am changing the experience. But I suppose that is a good thing.
Really starts to pick up energy at the 20 minute mark
Resetting in the coaching mindset, here is my reflection on the reflections:
We ain’t cutting shit, use the slowness as a texture
Yea we talking about love if he’s down
Let’s use the energy in the antsyness and also find ways to energetically cut
If people understood, we can speak to them more clearly though clips (thinking about cutting clips into episodes and using snippets to be the intro of every episode)
Use the tension of trying hard cut it out when it is distracting
I want to preserve the order, but cut as much as I want to, especially cut more creatively
There is nothing wrong with produced cuts but they take away from this coaching call in this scenario because there is so much there. Use the produced cuts to make shorts.
Can use sound in the beginning and the end, keep the audio clean
Today I feel very tired but at least better rested than normal. I really want to finish my taxes today and I also want to experiment with art therapy and exercise to help get through the stress and effort of finishing.
My initial thoughts about art therapy is that it is all about reconnecting with your body…to do flow theory or follow what you feel. Art is about touching the forms with lines and paint, music is about creating sound, dance is about moving your body.
I’m doing more research. Here is a video that talks about using art to find a safe place:
Here is another video:
Current art therapy ideas:
Express what you feel kinesthetically
Scribbling
Banging on the piano
Flow theory dance
Free writing
Create a safe space, express what feels safe
Drawing
Writing
Music
Repetitive motions
Shapes
Chords
Motions
But how does this translate to greater art creation? How does this create a world?
Thinking about this more, art creation is about the following:
What you want to share with others
What you find beautiful
What you feel wonder about
What stories you want to tell
What is quirky, unique, and creative
What worlds you want to live in and provide others
I have a couple ideas of how to transition from therapeutic art to art art:
My therapy exercise (take a problem and solve it in the story by making the main character face a problem 10x more painful)