I have continued working on my project and still focusing on my on screen version of the story. I have now started prototyping everything in Figma and building my animations in Procreate. I am prototyping an app that tells this story of The Little Red Dress but more so focusing on dementia and to simulate how it can feel to lose your memory. For the app I will have the recording of my grandmother telling the story on repeat, getting more distorted each time until you can't understand anything she is saying. I also will be including an animation of my grandmother older as she is now wearing the red dress and holding a rose. In this animation the petals will be falling off and flying away in the wind showing that now matter how much she tries to hold on to her memory like she holds on to the stem of the rose, it is drifting away like the petals.
This week we read Responsible to Whom, I’d Like to Know By Ken Garland. The beginning of the reading talks about how Garland had to sit in board rooms where men wore ties and were really professional and closed off, while he sat there visually looking the complete opposite. He states that maybe if he looked more like them, then he could've been invited to the ritz after where they have lunch and the alcohol loosened their lips. He states that their biggest concerns were the shareholders and the responsibilities they have to them and that now included Garland. One thing that really stood out to me in the reading was that Garland said that he was told by one of the men in suits on the board, that they could do anything they want as long as they told the shareholders they would get a great return on it and let them show off a bit. Garland defines irresponsibility as speaking your mind on what you believe to be right or wrong and how it really paid off for him when he was on TV and that he was so sure he was going to get rejected on a loan because of it. When in fact it he received the loan because of his “irresponsibility.” This really made me think about myself and how more recently I have bitten my tongue or hid away some of my work because of who I am and the things I believe in, due to fear of not being hired because of it. After reading what Ken Garland said in these pages I want to step away from that a little bit and start being more publicly vocal like he was.
