Taking the quote and forming a proposal

I have chosen to look at the quote by Susan Sontag.
“Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”
From what I can gather from this quote, it is saying that we you just do what went, block out all distractions, pay full attention to what we are doing. When paying full attention to what we are doing, we can do whatever we set our minds to. So we should keeping doing stuff, do not wait for other people’s input, keep going ,and pay full attention to what we are doing. Pay attention and stay eager.

For my design, I am proposing to create a video, which would be fully animated. Taking the quote into consideration, the video could be about the struggles of coming up with ideas, and turning them into their own creations. A person, metaphorically, having inner struggles with their own ideas, constantly being distracted by their own thoughts and worries. The person eventually tries to clear their minds of these, and pays full attention to what they are trying to create, and eventually creates their best piece of work yet. The video could start with them scrapping many failed ideas, with many thoughts piling up in their head as they are throwing away the ideas. They eventually get a single idea, and put their full concentration on this idea, focusing and putting their fully attention on it, blocking out all thoughts. Whilst building up said idea, the background and overall artstyle of the video could go from dark, monochrome colours to eventually becoming and colourful, symbolising the “vitality” and “eager”ness of focusing on this idea and making it work. The animation does necessarily have to be about a person thinking of an idea, the video could merely be about the idea of focusing on something to get it done to a great standard.

The video itself will be animated in either Flash or After Effects, and I will be drawing all assets for this piece. As mentioned previously, the start of the video could use a dull colour palette which eventually changes to be vibrant and colourful to fit the mood of the video. I have chosen to use animation rather than video as animation allows for exaggerated expressions on characters