A night of stranght nightmares from which I awoke three times, twice couging and struggling to breath easily due to a very tickly and very dry throat, and in a cold sweat. The third dream in particular was a spectacular narrative in a universe where novels or stories created new spherical universes which expanded, but these interfered with reality, when their boundaries crossed. People could vanish into these stories if they believed in them, as though the distinction between fiction and reality were belief. I had some sort of mission to repair a faulty story, or perhaps track down a friend who had vanished into one. Either way, the stories were damaging reality, causing earthquake style disasters. Three evil people, perhaps malevolent authors, were also torturing innocent animals and children in a castle dungeon of sorts, finally killing their victims for their perverted pleasure. All of the dream was vivid and disturbing.
In other news, today was the first day of filming for the Jabberwocky video, some scenes of Deborah, as story teller, speaking and acting the song. Each verse tended to have a different shot. The scene was dressed in various props and olde-worlde looking objects. I made and painted a fake brick wall for the real(ish) fireplace.
Filming took about two hours. I had two small singing exercise sessions too, which seem more beneficial than one large one. It seems that a certain power is needed for those higher notes, which I seem unable to sing quietly... I wonder if this is a matter for training itself. I seem to be improving at starting at these higher notes, rather than needing the training ramp of a scale. Steady progress.
This video will be my main focus. I'll film lots of different scenes and then start to assemble it.
