The storyboard for now

Project idea Synopsis

•A Surrealism Film

•BINARY: the two sides of human personality

•To present the inner sense/ opposite side of ourselves,     reveal the original undomesticated of a human being.

•Visual Design:

•Making a comparison with a mirror.

•the one inside the mirror represents the ‘original me’

•the character outside the mirror is the ‘face’ that we use to confront the public.

Character Design:

One character with the opposite personality: ‘Good’ vs ‘Bad’

Black and white contrast to show the ‘bright side’ and ‘dark side’ as to match ‘good’ and ‘bad'.

Screen capture from Better Than I Know Myself Music Video By Adam Lambert

Surrealist cinema

In his 2006 book Surrealism and Cinema, Michael Richardson argues that surrealist works cannot be defined by style or form, but rather as results of the practice of surrealism. Richardson writes: "Surrealists are not concerned with conjuring up some magic world that can be defined as 'surreal'. Their interest is almost exclusively in exploring the conjunctions, the points of contact, between different realms of existence. Surrealism is always about departures rather than arrivals."^[1] Rather than a fixed aesthetic, Richardson defines surrealism as "a shifting point of magnetism around which the collective activity of the surrealists revolves."^[1]

Surrealism draws upon irrational imagery and the subconscious mind. Surrealists should not, however, be mistaken as whimsical or incapable of logical thought;^[2]rather, most Surrealists promote themselves as revolutionaries.^[2]

Surrealist works cannot be defined by style or form, but rather as results of the practice of surrealism.^[1] Rather than a fixed aesthetic, surrealism can be defined as an ever-shifting art form.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealist_cinema

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Examples of Surrealism in the Cinema

These are some example of surrealism in cinema and showing its development in last century.

after 1st review

after 1st review, Jeremy told me it better to focus on my sound work and develop it. So in the following weeks i will do more research and develop my soundtrack. It's also I love to do that.

Animatic work

the drawing

After drawing picture, I will try to make them to be a stop motion animation

example of first person view movie

First person view movie!!!

A very good example for the first person view movie! This video can be a very good tutorial to make me know how to film the first person view and create the scaring vibe. The movie also using the flashlight for their main light!!! What a perfect example!

1 min sound effect

The tutorial of Audacity

This tutorial help me to know how to find the sound materials and edit them by Audacity.
The left things is to create them

Preparing for 1 min soundtrack

This sound for 1 min trying. I used the sound recorder to record the sound such as step sounds on the wood floor or the sound of door open and close.

This is my SONY recorder. I used this one to record all sound materials for my subject.

 My house is wood floor, it easier to record the step sound and my room's door is quite old.When I open and close it, the sound will be very loud and clear, it's a good source to record.

Storyboard of idea

Storyboard

Please forgive my drawing skill!!!

CONCEPT IDEA

 First person view movie

The camera will follow the character’s view in the whole video. The character back to home at night. When he open the main door and try to turn the light on. He found the house is power off. He take his flashlight from his pocket and turn on. The camera will follow the light and there are some bloodstain on the wall and also has some blood marks. Character will walk forward slowly and carefully. When he walk to the corridor, he sees the women is standing in the front of his room. This women is bowing her head and character cannot see her face. When he come close, the women rise her head and show her horrible demon face with a harshly scream.

First person view is the good way to create some special atmosphere especially in the horror movie.

The camera position in this movie is always on the character shoulder.  Because of this, the video image will keep first person view and the audience only can see the character’s arms.

The sound of the video is my focus one. I will create the effects to make the video feel more scary. 

The idea of research from Horror movie

This ghost film's VFX shows us how to make people disappear and make special effect on people's motion. This video gives my concept about how to put the effect on the person. I can not only put effect on person but also put effect on anything such as wall; goods and animals.

This video shows a good example for sound effect to create a scary vibe. I would like to catch up to study how the soundtrack influence the video and create my own spooky soundscape.