Self-Portrait Ideas

I have many scattered ideas for my self-portrait; their only connectedness lies in the fact that they are all involved with me. For example, I’ve filmed long takes on a tripod of me sitting and moving in different areas, and in editing I will overlay and crop different moments of this shot to resemble me being in multiple places, doing multiple things, at once. I intend to have montage shots of me writing, reading, playing instruments, filming, my book collections, movie collections, LEGOs, fantasy, etc.

Aside from incorporating many hobbies and passions of mine into this video, I will aim to represent different traits of mine; my constant internal energy, rarely ever thinking about just one thing, etc. I will more or less show what I do and, in the process, parts of who I am.

I will try to challenge myself by focusing, thematically, more on the personality and lifestyle aspect of the video. Montages of hobbies will be made with the intention of coloring parts of who I am, but I want the underlying structure of the video to resemble my core, and that will be harder than it may seem to grasp. One internal theme would be of the multiple “versions of myself;” this is not to say that I act differently around different people and environments, however.

In truth, I live a very eclectic lifestyle. I prefer to have solid understanding and power over many different things, rather than master over just a few. There are times when I feel like “butter spread over too much bread,” as Bilbo Baggins might put it. I want to see more films and shows, I want to listen to more albums, I want to learn more songs on the instruments I know, I want to read more novels, I want to learn more about astronomy, I want to re-sharpen my German lingual abilities, I want to learn new instruments, to spend more time with the friends around me, to write more, to do so very many things.

Overall, the theme of my self-portrait might just be eclecticness, with unity at its core. That will be a difficult but worthy concept to aim for, and I’m excited to really get started.