Mijo (my son)
| dc.contributor.advisor | Raval, P. J. (Paul James) | en |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Lewis, Anne | en |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Spiro, Ellen | en |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Wilkins, Karin | en |
| dc.creator | Jeyaram, Chithra | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-08-20T17:20:30Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2012-08-20T17:20:30Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2012-05 | en |
| dc.date.submitted | May 2012 | en |
| dc.date.updated | 2012-08-20T17:20:37Z | en |
| dc.description | text | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Mijo emerged as an alternate project to fulfill my MFA thesis requirement when Foreign Puzzle my initial thesis project faced serious setbacks. Foreign Puzzle is an hour-long documentary about love, life, breast cancer, dance and the transcending power of the human spirit. In an attempt to unravel an individual's struggle with mortality, to understand a child's adaptation to a mother's illness and to document the healing power of creativity, I began filming Sharon Marroquin's life from September 2010. Unfortunately, when filming real people undergoing life threatening medical illness it is impossible to stick to a timeline. Sharon Marroquin, the central character in the film developed serious medical complications that pushed the deadline for Foreign Puzzle significantly. While, I was committed to the completion of the film Foreign Puzzle, I did not want to delay my graduation from film school by almost two years and hence was forced to come up with an alternate thesis project. I had an animation script ready to go into production. But, I was so deeply involved with the production of Foreign Puzzle that it became impossible to work earnestly on a completely new film. The only viable alternative was to make a short film from the footage filmed for Foreign Puzzle. For the film to work and function independently, it had to have a strong and distinct thematic strand and not seem like a trailer or a scene from a longer film. This report is an elaboration of the process that went into the creation and exhibition of Mijo and its influence on Foreign Puzzle. | en |
| dc.description.department | Radio-Television-Film | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.slug | 2152/ETD-UT-2012-05-5049 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2012-05-5049 | en |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en |
| dc.subject | Mijo | en |
| dc.subject | Breast cancer | en |
| dc.subject | Documentary | en |
| dc.title | Mijo (my son) | en |
| dc.type.genre | thesis | en |
| thesis.degree.department | Radio-Television-Film | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Radio-Television-Film | en |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Texas at Austin | en |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | en |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Fine Arts | en |