Final video

Statement

The average person has 4 to 5 dreams or nightmares a night. These dreams can last 15 seconds to even 45 minutes. When you are experiencing these though, it may seem like forever. We hardly ever remember our dreams but it does happen, especially with nightmares, at least in my case. This is what I am going to be exploring in my project.

The project will be a series of dreams and nightmares that might occur within a night. Instead of situations and actual figures I will only be using landscapes/cityscapes. I believe that there is something both beautiful and terrifying in our natural world that could cause a good dream, and a nightmare.

I want the viewer to see what it would be like to experience a dream without any figures or situations, just a blur of images during the time they sleep. I want to show the world for what it is. How we view the world and different places. Why we see a grassy hill as good, but a dark cave as something a bit more scary at times. I want to explore why that is, and what we might possibly make of it in a dream.

My project will be a compilation of several things including animation, photo-manipulation and photo-montage. I believe in this way, with animation, you can get a smooth transition between each dream sequence. The photo-manipulation and montage will be used to dramatize everything to shed a different light onto it. Not necessarily over the top, but just enough to give the viewer a different perspective on it.

Contact sheet


Final Video

Nightmare

I found my hard-drive! Here are the pictures for the nightmare section of the animation.

Dream and Nightmare

Statement

The average person has 4 to 5 dreams or nightmares a night. These dreams can last 15 seconds to even 45 minutes. When you are experiencing these though, it may seem like forever. We hardly ever remember our dreams but it does happen, especially with nightmares, at least in my case. This is what I am going to be exploring in my project.

The project will be a series of dreams and nightmares that might occur within a night. Instead of situations and actual figures I will only be using landscapes/cityscapes. I believe that there is something both beautiful and terrifying in our natural world that could cause a good dream, and a nightmare.

I want the viewer to see what it would be like to experience a dream without any figures or situations, just a blur of images during the time they sleep. I want to show the world for what it is. How we view the world and different places. Why we see a grassy hill as good, but a dark cave as something a bit more scary at times. I want to explore why that is, and what we might possibly make of it in a dream.

My project will be a compilation of several things including animation, photo-manipulation and photo-montage. I believe in this way, with animation, you can get a smooth transition between each dream sequence. The photo-manipulation and montage will be used to dramatize everything to shed a different light onto it. Not necessarily over the top, but just enough to give the viewer a different perspective on it.

I don't have any images yet due to losing my hard drive.

Dream sequence Final

Statement:

A dream is images, thoughts, and feelings that an individual experiences during sleep. Sometimes these can be good things, or they can be bad things. Dreams aren't necessarily exact memories but more of a combination of several thoughts or memories all combined into one. In my project I put emphasis on the bad things that happen in dreams. These are called 'Nightmares'.

The images found in my project are a look into something that I would consider a nightmare. It is also composed of things that I see or have seen in my life, or that I have experienced that have left an imprint on me. In this sequence of images I look at things in my past and present that bother me in some way. Almost every object in the images has some sort of negative memory attached to it. With everything combined, a nightmare is born.

I achieved this piece by taking photos that would make up a 'Journey' into my bedroom, and between two books in which I would find the bulk of my nightmare. The object between the two books is a photo montage of things that represent something bad, or a specific memory. I combined both the still images and the photo montage images into an animation that would represent the nightmare. There are black spaces in between each photo to show how things are lost in a dream, and that the whole picture is never shown.

What I want the viewer to get out of this is that dreams are not just random thoughts or things of the imagination, but have a lot to do with things that are in their every day life. I wanted to show that everything we do in our day to day may affect or create our dreams or nightmares. I also wanted to emphasis the point that dreams are something that we forget, but are often times important. Dreaming in my opinion can help heal, or remember things that we either need to get over, or want to remember in some way.

Thought process:

These are my contact sheets of the photos that I used or thought of using for my project.






























































Final sequence:

Project two progress (contact sheet)

This is my contact sheet for the Design for Media project 2. The concept is nightmares. The images shown will cut to one another with a space of black following each one. The end 'creature' will move within the last frame. Last week powerpoint was mentioned so I am giving that try.

Dream Scene 1

So, these are the photos for the first Design for Media project that I did. It was a representation of a scene from a dream I might have had. I was asked to maybe put more negative space at the top and show more detail. I added the negative space and honestly didn't care for it. Here is both the original and new work.











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New