Semester: Fall 2022 Instructor: David Hake
This project gives an opportunity to explore typographic forms in a new way. I choose a font to play with. I need to engage these letter forms in a dream state. Consider strategies that my dreams have taken past or present or imagine strategies based on my own creative impulses. I need to bring in my first round of hallucinations in one week. The final deliverables are 3 movie posters and a movie trailer.
I have one of the most impressive dreams also one I don't want to forget. It is about my grandma. About a week after my grandma passed away, I dreamed of my grandma, she looked young and wore a beautiful dress, but I couldn't touch her. I would like to believe that she seemed to have a happy life in another world, and I saw this in my dream.
I often dream that I am in a plot, in the dream I become the main character in a movie story or game. I have adventures in the dream world and occasionally have superpowers. It's very creative for me when I wake up and rely on my vague memories and processing to be able to put together a very fantastically exciting plot piece. I think dreams can give me inspiration.
I sometimes dream about the same scenes. I even have the plot of a story from a dream a few years ago that can continue in a recent dream. The same buildings and grounds, familiar staircases, and even sometimes when the scene was not a familiar one, but as the dream plot develops, it suddenly turns out to be connected to the same scene. Maybe it's a parallel world, maybe it's a parallel time. I think this kind of dream makes me think of loops, flashbacks, and fragments.
I have one of the most impressive dreams also one I don't want to forget. It is about my grandma. About a week after my grandma passed away, I dreamed of my grandma, she looked young and wore a beautiful dress, but I couldn't touch her. I would like to believe that she seemed to have a happy life in another world, and I saw this in my dream.
I put the words in a plastic bag, and the translucent plastic bag has a blurred look, as if it has a filter. It also looks as hazy as smoke.
I put the words in water and freeze them overnight to make ice cubes, then crack them the next day. Finally put the ice cubes into room temperature water and the ice cubes slowly melted.
Powder and crumbs remind me of "missing", which I tried with flour.
I often dream that I am in a plot, in the dream I become the main character in a movie story or game. I have adventures in the dream world and occasionally have superpowers. It's very creative for me when I wake up and rely on my vague memories and processing to be able to put together a very fantastically exciting plot piece. I think dreams can give me inspiration.
The word "Inspire" made me want to experiment with light and shadow effects. I used the reflection of the mirror to shine on the word and shake the mirror for a dynamic light effect.
Both the silver insulation bag and the tin foil are highly reflective and they are easy to fold into various shapes. The reflections in the sunlight gave me a lot of nice light spot and halos in the camera lens.
I sometimes dream about the same scenes. I even have the plot of a story from a dream a few years ago that can continue in a recent dream. The same buildings and grounds, familiar staircases, and even sometimes when the scene was not a familiar one, but as the dream plot develops, it suddenly turns out to be connected to the same scene. Maybe it's a parallel world, maybe it's a parallel time. I think this kind of dream makes me think of loops, flashbacks, and fragments.
My first thought was that the dust inside the vacuum cleaner was spinning at high speed every time I used it. So I put the word in to experiment. But when the word letters start spinning, the naked eye effect will be much better than the photo effect.
I placed the words along the edge of the turntable and then turned the turntable quickly to get the motion blur effect I wanted.
When we stand between two big mirrors, we will see infinite distant mirrors and countless selves. So I wanted to try this method. But the actual shooting is a bit difficult.
The Shape of Water is a 2017 American romantic fantasy film
Background in 1962 in Baltimore, Maryland, the film follows a mute cleaner at a high-security government laboratory who falls in love with a captured humanoid amphibian creature and decides to help him escape from death at the hands of an evil colonel.
Images which insprire me
There is a lot of symbolism and undertones woven throughout the story and characters. I took away two main messages. The first is that we all need love and that love comes in many different shapes and sizes. All love also doesn’t have to be romantic. It’s about acceptance, support, and safety. The second is that all people are equal. It does not matter if you are white, yellow , black, gay, straight, etc. At times we may all feel like a “fish out of water”.
Set in the distant future, the film follows Paul Atreides as his family, the noble House Atreides, is thrust into a war for the deadly and inhospitable desert planet Arrakis. Arrakis, a harsh desert planet and the only source of "spice,"(which look like sand) a valuable psychotropic drug that imparts heightened vitality and awareness to its users.
In this world "spice" is the most important resource, and this main story is based on this sand.
Materials: Glitter Shaker, Powder
Inception is a 2010 science fiction action film.
The film's plot wanders between dreams and reality, and is defined as "a contemporary action science fiction film that takes place within the structure of consciousness". The film tells the story of a dream maker played by Leonardo DiCaprio, leading a team of secret agents to enter other people's dreams and steal secrets from other people's subconscious and recreate the stories of other people's dreams.
In the movie, the dream builder folds the whole world into a box-like structure. This dreamland is a space that is always open, and there is no end to it no matter how you go, which adds to the suspenseful color of the dreamland. In another dream, on the top of a large building, two large mirrors stand opposite each other and then mirror to mirror, two people to two people, creating a g rand scene of countless mirrors and people.
The top is an important prop in the movie, and it can distinguish one's dream from reality because, in one's dream, the top can be controlled to keep spinning; in reality, the top will fall down.
Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film
it is based on accounts of the sinking of the RMS Titanic and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ship during its ill-fated maiden voyage.
Images which insprire me
Materials: Ice, Water, Light
Inside Out is a 2015 American 3D animated film.
The film follows the inner workings inside the mind of a young girl named Riley, as five personified emotions administer her thoughts and actions as she adapts to her family's relocation.
These five characters are the basic emotions that control Riley's actions: Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger. Riley's experiences become memories, stored as colored orbs, which are sent into long-term memory each night. for example, the yellow ball is her happy memory, the blue ball is sad, and the red ball is anger.
Images which insprire me
Inside Out is a 2015 American 3D animated film.
The film follows the inner workings inside the mind of a young girl named Riley, as five personified emotions administer her thoughts and actions as she adapts to her family's relocation.
These five characters are the basic emotions that control Riley's actions: Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger. Riley's experiences become memories, stored as colored orbs, which are sent into long-term memory each night. for example, the yellow ball is her happy memory, the blue ball is sad, and the red ball is anger.
Images which insprire me
Materials: Balls, Lightbox
Materials: Balls, Lightbox
