Tinderella Moment from Jacob Searles on Vimeo.

In my previous draft of storytelling I mentioned how the storyteller tells stories to access an imaginative state, away from reality. Personally, my project does just that; since making the project, he and I have since stopped talking, which caused me a little grief. Being able to reflect on the great date we shared and the times afterwards allows me to escape the unsettling way we ended the relationship and remember the way we first met in New York City. I think adding the visuals to my project has furthered my ability to tell the story and contrast how we date in modern times versus how couples in the ‘50s dated/ decided to go steady. Finding archival footage to include in my project was somewhat difficult, especially with my theme of contrasting the two types of dating because of the way same-sex couples and dating was looked at prior to the 21st century. The films and sex-education movies I was finding that centered their idea around same-sex relationships were troubling and negative, which ultimately led to me using scenes from films of opposite sex relationships flourishing and ultimately ending in marriage. Through the process of finding archival footage to match my audio project I’ve realized that my project goes further than comparing the ways we went about finding dates. It also now delves into what society has granted as “acceptable” and normal. The story I am telling audibly will hopefully find less people uncomfortable than if I had the ability to upload it in the 1950s when these archival footages were taken. Not only that, all of the films I came across were very whitewashed. I think that by contrasting the two stories being told (both visual and audio) you can understand what dominated society as far as social norms and current issues. Being able to tell two different stories through visual and audio allows the audience to compare and contrast the history and strides we have made as a society. The visual elements of my film helps advance and promote the agenda of what was a comical audible story to an accepting and socially progressive mindset which we know express in the 21st century. **The footage I personally shot was the waitress walking over our 8th round of shots at 1 minute and 42 seconds