Making A Start

Well today has been a long one (as you can tell, I'm writing this at half 12 at night). The goal of today was to just make a start on the action plan we made up in my tutorial yesterday, which was basically to ask people what they thought a ghost was and then go from there. I am so lucky to have such creative and funny people around me, some of the answers I got for this question were amazing, a few of my favourites being my friend Amber, the most logical person in the world. She tried to talk me through something called infrasound, which is a low frequency sound, that is below the limit for normal human hearing, so is sometimes used to try and explain ghosts and some experiences people have claimed to have with them. Then there was my flat mate Max who sent me a paragraph long explanation of what he thinks spirits are and what they do after they leave the body. 

I just love how this subject means something so different to so many people, and also how so many people took the question so literally, and how others described it as a feeling or a thought. I think it can mean what you want it to mean, as technically one of the synonyms for a ghost is something that's absent, whereas I also found a definition on Urban Dictionary (which is a very, very scary place) that used the word ghosting for taking a hit of a bong so hard that when you exhale, no smoke comes out. Clearly, we've moved on a lot from the time when a ghost was just a scary thing rattling chains and moaning, so I'm going to focus on twisting the classic ideas of what a ghost is in my book. 

Here's a draft of my first storyboard, I'm not sure which bits I'll keep, but I compiled a few things from other peoples definitions of a ghost, as well as what the concept means to me. So far I've managed to keep the little ghost guy and the high street images but we'll see how we go with it.

I'm feeling a lot more positive about it now, I definitely think this idea has a lot more of me in it, and I've so far really enjoyed working with the words to create something a bit more thoughtful.

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