With great feedback, new understanding for my project, and excitement to see the new results for the next recording session.

It was very close to the final, so I had to pick up my slack and get back to work on Golem. I was eager but hesitant because of all the time I have to balance to with workload I had with assignments and my part-time job. I had to put on his face, paint the hands and face, and give him feet.

When I got back to my Golem, I was ready to put on the plaster mold of my face but, realized something horrible picking up the mold. The weight of the plaster face would have been too much for the Golem’s body to support. It would have taken a lot of time to fit the face on the body or worse would have required rebuilding the whole building to properly support the face’s weight. Looking around the sculpture room, I decided to make another mold of my face from wax, it was much lighter and be easier to fit on if it had support/weight issues.

When the wax was cooling, I placed chicken wire into the back of the head to let it stick out the back to create a band strip. With the crude temporary head, I had the band strip rest of the temp. head and built the rest of the strap to secure the face to the head as a base.

(Future Note –  Just because Hot-Glue can cool down doesn’t mean it will just fuse with the wax. )

I had to place several wires bent into the shape of stapes to secure the extra straps I made to secure the head and face together. No matter how much hot-glue I put on the materials pulled apart. A few attempts later until I finally got it to bond together. Hot-glue often worked efficiently if I was stubborn enough.

One thing that kept me back from working on the Golem has been the skin tone. I’ve tried reaching a friend who was a make-up expert to color the face in, but she wasn’t reachable. I painted the hands and face instead to keep moving forward on the project.

It wasn’t easy, painting the proper tones was something I can’t do. I know I could have painted it any other tone except the face and hands were based on me, it felt wrong using the wrong colors when I know that’s not the correct shade.

When I had everything done, I called my close best friend to come to the campus to record me. I needed someone I knew well that could record it, chose him because I thought during the scenes when I’m carrying the Golem we have conversations going for entertaining commentary.

That also didn’t go as planned either. His girlfriend came along, the problem was she ended up recording the whole thing and he was sidetracked with issues going on with his class assignments. The commentary I wanted in the video was instead his problems with his grades and his girlfriend recording it in a shaky quality. The problems would only rise.

• My friend’s conversations about his grade problems with his girlfriend took up parts in the video. I didn’t have the skill to remove their sounds.
• During recording, the footage recorded went on for a while with not much to see. The videos would go on for 10 minutes or longer as 20 minutes. Its the proper results I want, but not easy to watch for long periods of time straight.
• The recording with my friends had to stop because they had plans to see a concert in the city. I wasn’t ready to stop, there was more I wanted to due and record for the video.
• The largest problem was how much was recorded, there was so much gathered that it was hard to edit and breakdown for the presentation proper.

In the end, I had to make some difficult decisions.