reflections at the end of first quarter

I've found it increasingly difficult to combine this project with other aspects of my life and keeping the flow of production going. This is mainly because I cannot dedicate as much time to it as many of my ideas would need. I guess this has become one of the main challenges for me. Some ideas can be sketched, experimented and uploaded in a matter of day or two, but many ideas simply don't fit into the time constrains I've set for myself.

So instead of shutting down this whole operation, I've decided to give myself a little breather now that I'm 1/4 through the project. Call it an autumn vacation. I will keep on producing things with the "run and gun" idea of quick sketches and experimentations, but I may not be able to do 52 pieces in 12 months. We'll see what happens.

So far though, this platform—even if I'm just talking to myself here—has been a great excuse and a motivational force to try out some things I otherwise might just keep on stacking in my head. Some very conceptual, some more aesthetic and some just silly. I'm happy for making every one of them so far.

A pleasant surprise for me has been my focus on working with sound. In many cases, I've actually spent more time with the sound in postproduction than with shooting and editing combined. This I did not expect, and I'm interested to see where things will go from here. Sound has always been an important factor for me—something that's never an afterthought, but an integral part of the whole process from beginning to end. But it's always been sort of complimentary to the image. Now I see that image and sound are starting to find a different balance in my work, where they are on the same level, neither one the subject of the other, but two expressions of an idea that resonate together in fascinating ways.

I see also that my work has trouble staying in the constrains of what a "film" is usually considered to be, and branching out to the realms of text and music. For me this is not a problem, but in fact a positive thing. But I may need to rethink the premise of this project more during my autumn break.

Thank you for tuning in.
I'm looking forward to producing more pieces with renewed energy.

Best,
Juha