04. Captain Yield: a Tale of Woe, Whoa, and WHHOOOAAAA!!

The Saga continues with it’s 4th part… CAPTAIN YIELD: a tale of woe, Whoa and WHOOOAAAHH!!

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So now that I’m approaching graduation, I need to produce something that proves to my professors that I’m capable in my chosen area of study. My chosen area of study was painting and drawing, so of course I chose to demonstrate my ability in… Video. Probably not the smartest thing I’ve ever done, but definitely not something I regret. Another problem, on top of having very limited experience in actually making video was, there were no tenured professors at the University who actually taught video. (the summer class was taught by a sessional professor) This made it rather difficult to put together a BFA committee. But put together it was, then evaluated I was. I graduated, and got by BFA.

Now the project that I put together for my BFA show has a whole other story. Gather around and listen to it’s tale Woe, Whoa and WHHOOOAAA!!!

It all began on a fall afternoon, the leaves were changing colour, the breeze smelled of nature dying, and school had begun anew. For a young film maker this was the moment of change. He had arrived and all was good. He approached the day head on and began to assemble a team of superheroes. He began auditioning the superheroes, and audition they did. They came from all corners of the University, just for the chance to join the team, and they waited, breaths baited for the man that would be their King. And he was a gallant man. Masked, Caped, and Shielded, Captain Yield showed assured the masses that under his watch they would be safe.

Having been selected as the teams super leader, Captain Yield bared his soul. As he wove his tale, a single child sat listening as if the story was just for him. When Captain Yields tale was finished a single tear escaped the boys eye and fell to the ground. The boy choked back his remaining tears, for he was a man, and thus shouldn’t cry. The tear was saddened by this, thinking to itself that perhaps it would be doomed to remain alone forever.

Just as the tear was thinking this, it began to rain, but this was no normal rain dear reader, this was the rain of thousands of tears falling from thousands of eyes, for as the Captains speech had touched the heart of this small boy, so too did it touch the heart of every man woman and child watching. So dear reader, now it’s your chance to watch this “Super” man, and shed a tear or two.