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1)Artist Statement/Concept

I wanted to create a take on a surreal and abstract way of expressing death and how it is irreversible.

The story starts out with a man trying to retrieve his dead lover, by listening to a legend that you can do so by going in the deep.

However during his journey to find his dead lover, he encounters sharks and revengeful dead souls.

In the end, he finally found his lover, but when he tries to take her back with him.

He was woken up by being left alone stranded in the middle of the ocean.

 

I placed this clip in to show the surrealism in this universe.

This scene is to show that he is imagining his dead lover and he did not actually meet her yet.

When he wants to go back with her, reality shows that it was not possible and her is still alone.

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2)Technical Decisions

Transitioning and cuts:

I tried to match the danger and sound with 2 elements. The dead skeletons and the shark. Both having their mouths wide open.

While I had short cutscenes like a blink of an eye with a drop of a water. To express being awaken.

 

Audio – some decisions I made during the audio is how to stack the layers and make it more convincing.

Especially my voice, I tried to echo it to make it seem distant like a memory.

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3)Before/After

Since I am talking about death I made the scene feel more cold and unwelcoming by tinting the clip blue.

 

For this scene, I had to adjust the water’s colour in order for it to flow together for the next clips to match.

 

 

4) References

• Woodkid – I Love You MvIn the video, there would be a voice narrating the event that is taking place in the video. Speaking about their own monologue out loud and expressing their feelings through the script.

5)Voice Over Transcript

Some told me that by going below

I would be able to retrieve the dead

I have to go despite the odds

6)Descriptive Text Premise

A man stands at the edge of the shores and was washed away by the waves.
He begins to sink into the ocean slowly with his eyes closed, a lady was seen kissing him on the cheek. He was then seen alone curled up in a ball when his eyes open and there was a sound of a drop of water. A shark also opened its eyes, and the man could be seen running away from it on sandy rocky coral beds. The man than met the blonde woman again and they both circled each other. Till they were seen bubbling up to the surface. The man gasped out of the water and was again seen alone in the middle of the ocean.

7)Credits

• ALPHA (2018) Trailer
• Nate Ruess – Nothing without love mv
• Naughty Boy – Runnin (Lose It All) ft. Beyonce, Arrow Benjamin
• Pirates of the Caribbean – Dead man tells no tales (2017)
• Pirates of the Caribbean (music scene) – Underwater march
• The Shallows (2016) – Sharks Death Scene
• Woodkid – I Love You Mv