Out of the Blue

A mystical, gentle and dreamy bedtime story for children—The story of a cloud, hiding under a shell, quietly dreaming of the sky above—longing to rise and witness a sunset it has never seen…"

This video project was made for an assessment during my DMP master studies. After workshopping the 5 creative arts therapies modalities (drama, dance, music, art and play), the assessment was to incorporate and explore the connection of the modalities into a video project. This was my favorite assessment! I plunge into the creative process, allowed the story to unfold and the modalities to intertwine themselves. I lost myself into the process... I spent a ridiculous amount of time drawing, filming, dancing, making music, finding costumes, sets and waiting for a clear evening, with the least of rain and clouds (a huge challenge in London) to capture my sunset. I spent many hours in front of the computer, editing and putting all those elements together. I was getting caught in playing with the sounds, tweeking the movements and the dance, arrange and rearrange rythmes and collaging everything together within a 5mn maximum video! I ‘hired’ my roommates to become the props holder, the camera women and to make sure I was staying on track.

The creative process began in the drama therapy workshop where I created a story out the ‘6 part story making method’, a well-known assessment tool in drama-therapy initially created to support traumatized children who witness war and conflict in the Middle East. While I was making the story, there were no intention to either make sense of my story, or make a film at all. I created my 6-part story in the moment, as it should be.

I drew images representing the characters and the space.

I embodied the 6 parts which helped my imagination, make sense of what the characters, the environment felt.

I then used and played different instruments from the music therapy room without planning or structuring anything . At that moment, I had no idea what, where, how, for what, it was completely random. So here I was, alone in the music room, holding and trying instruments I had no idea how to ‘properly’ hold or play. I realized later, while editing the film, that all my sounds from the instruments recorded in the music room were very soft. I am unsure if I was lacking confidence or shying away from playing the estranged instruments.

With all that in store, I started to play and make the film.