Assignment 3: EGO

HELLO YOU EGOISTIC PEOPLE

FINAL Project 3 Layout

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Book sketches

After deciding on the usage of juxaposition in my equation, I drew up many sketches to showcase this aspect, and as seen above, you are able to tell that may thoughts have been put into this.

While sketching these, I felt that I was able to portray these expression  better in the case of editing my real face and changing reality through this process.

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Photo-taking

With my home having a available home studio, I was able to take professional looking images with the good equipments and wonderful lighting. This made my final pieces to have a good constant look and is not patchy or unprofessional looking. The clean background also made my life so much easier when I was editing the image and changing the colours to include the colour theories that we have been imparted.

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Experimentations on surrealism

With the photos taken, I then took to account of the style of edits that I had researched and referenced from to create these few images. These are the ones that did not make the cut as I feel they were either not clear in the explaination, was serving no purpose to the equations, or could be improved even further which was then included into the final pieces.

EXPLAINATION OF EACH PIECE
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INTROVERTION / SHYNESS 

Using the tearing of paper to reveal my face to showcase me hiding behind something and also the colour blue emphasis the mood here of being calm and collected.

eFORGETFULNESS (GOLDFISH BRAIN)

The goldfish have always been associated with being a creature with a really bad memory. The showing of it eating bits of my "brain" off helps heighten the explaination. Been forgetting stuff lately, blame this bugger!

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SERENITY WITHIN ONESELF (ME)

The silhouette of me breaking through the paper and going into a "goldfish undersea aquairium" shows the calmness and tranquility I have in being me.

hSTRESS OVERLOAD

The juxaposition usage of a kettle in the form of my head emphasis the feeling of overheating/ boiling which symbolises and show the stress I put myself into sometimes. The redness definitely adds on the the whole feel of the image.
dTOXIC THOUGHTS (DOUBTING MYSELF)

As gory as it looks, I wanted to have a powerful impact on this situation & to have both blood and toxic waste to be spilling out of my head to show the expelling of these evil thoughts!

gFRESH NEW IDEAS (A BETTER ME)

Here I again use the juxaposition method with the lightbulb in the form of my head an vice-versa. this creates an interesting look and is also a fun way to have this meaning made.

cREALNESS (BOTH IN AND OUT OF TECHNOLOGY)

I used this method of having half my face to be of the phone while the other to be the real me to show that they are both same and that realness is what I want to portray as an individual.

lSAVING TIME / TIMELY PERSON

Me holding time; my watch, and having a halo above my head to symbolise this matter. Me looking down with a look of grace comically helps to show this reasoning of the image I created.

kILLUSION (THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN IDEAL PERSON)

Challenging the brief, I created this image that is interesting and provoking at the same time.

i copy copyHARDWORK / GRINDING MY SKILLS

This form of levitation of the adobe icons being crammed up into my head shows that I am trying to learn them all, but it is with difficulties. but with hardwork, all is possible.

fSHORT-SIGHTEDNESS / BELITTLING MYSELF

Adding a fun and punny explaination of this equation, it shows me struggling with my sight and also being shorter, both which adds up to it. I feel this this is a interesting outlook of the depressing sentence.

bADOBE SOFTWARE GENIUS (ME IN 5 YEARS)

With my head being opened out like a book, something associated with knowledge, I have pieces of pages containing the icons of adobe softwares to have a nice dynamic to this final answer!

Assignment 4: Make A Film Trailer (FIND ME)

Synopsis:

“When everything falls apart and the light goes dark, love comes.”

“And truth is not the same as what it seems.”

Elijah is an aspiring photographer who is preparing for an exhibition. Unfortunately, he experiences a car crash and his parents passed away. His eyesight starts to deteriorate, believed to be caused by a severe form of depression: hysterical blindness. His conditions worsens as his world falls apart.

As a photographer, Elijah suffers even more. His photography skills are affected by his impaired vision, his exhibition is at stake. Janet, his assistant, noticed Elijah’s sufferings and is willing to help him through thick and thin. He develops a liking for Janet.

However, Janet starts to find out that something is not right regarding Elijah. His parents did not die due to a car accident. Elijah starts to remember something buried deep in his memory, a dark past that he has forgotten from that tragic day.

Who is Elijah?


 

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Reflections

From this project of shooting a trailer, our group learnt the ups and downs of actually taking the time and filming one. Even with pre-preparation through watching trailers made by the professionals, going heads into the project and really doing it with our hands was a great experience that we feel could only be taught through this.

First and foremost, we changed our original plot due to the fact that the main character was not as relatable, nor strong. This created a sense of distance for the audience and changing it helped the story to flow better with better dynamics. We also thought that incorporating a mystery also adds a very interesting twist, making the trailer more compelling.

While filming for “Find Me”, there were definitely setbacks that held us with instances like how to plan our shots, how to tweak the story to make the character/story more appealing, deal with inconsistency with our story, or even locations that were not suitable and had to be changed at the last minute.

Overall, it was definitely a wonderful experience that was fulfilling and also very fun, mainly due to the ability for us to work so well as a team. Everyone was very co-operative and extremely supportive of each other, we are very thankful for having each other as teammates 🙂

 

Process – Story

The story is a combination of Find Me by Alfred and Clandestine by Gladys. By taking almost equal amount of elements from both stories, we crafted an interesting twist in the final story: Find Me.

Original Find Me by Alfred is about a young man who lost his family in a car crash. He was depressed because of the deaths of his parents and eventually developed hysterical blindness. Love seemingly rescued him from his depression and also his disabilities of losing his eyesight. In conclusion, the story is about his struggle and how he fought his hopelessness. (Genre: Tragedy, Drama)

In the other hand, Clandestine by Gladys is about corporate warfare in the modern setting. The story is about the wife of a businessman who is caught in a moral dilemma: to support her husband’s evil schemes or to expose him. (Genre: Psychological Thriller, Drama)

As a result, the final Find Me took the idea about a young man who lost his parents from the original Find Me and a woman who faces moral dilemma from Clandestine. To create a better flow of the story, we added the idea that the death of the parents are not because of an accident, but potentially a murder which is a mystery to unveil.

 

Process – Editing

An early trial edit of the first few footages taken.

The result felt more like a short film, we ought to make it more trailer-like by jumbling some of the sequence and changing the music.

 

Roles

We did most of the work together, planning the story sequence and art direction as a team.  

Gladys: Main editor and cameraman, actor

Alfred: Main actor and story writer, editor

Feli: Main Animator/effects and story writer, cameraman

 

Music

Trailer: “I Started A Joke” by Becky Hanson

Process: “The Last of Us” by Gustavo Santaolalla

 

Locations

Kranji memorial park

Shaw Tower

Gladys’ house

NTU’s Hive, ADM, Hall

Singapore Zoo

Bugis area

SAM

 

Bloopers

HAVE FUN LAUGHING!