Final Project Concept

Final Projects

The Fear Of A Sting

Concept -

A person who sleeps and gets flashes in her dreams about a legend. A board game now known as 'snakes and ladder'. This girl is extremely sacred of snakes nonetheless she knows this thread of dreams shes having are all leaning towards unrevealing a mystery.

Type -
Box Novel/Graphic

- containing pictures of real events, drawings, video shots
- Cover Page
- several leafs
-the box would be the game board
-video clips/ gif
- not too direct and easy to understand

Process and content
- show reality vs. dreaming (how dreams become reality)
-shows her a path towards the game, but the path itself shapes the game.
but all the pauses (reality checks or waking up is when she gets stung by a snake in her dream.)
-wakes up with marks but doesn't remember anything of the dream.
-makes sketches in her sleep.

Confused between Paper graphic novel or Video graphic novel?

Memento

In this movie by Christopher Nolan, Leonard is suffering from short term memory loss. He has his long term memory intact but the 'new memories' after his accident he cannot retain. He lost his wife, when a guy named John G. raped and murdered her. Hence, Leonard's mission becomes to find this man and kill him. For remembering all the tasks he writes himself post its, polaroid pictures and notes in his jackets. The clues to finding John are all tattooed on Leonard so that he never forgets that.
Another very interesting thing in the movie was they way he recorded himself as sammy, the person who has a short term memory loss. He recorded that on the phone device and made that into a story (which indeed was about himself). Every time he slept he forgets where he was and what was he doing there.

In the structure of the movie, they show the event first and then they show how Leonard got to it. So in  a way the entire movie is in flashback. That first the climax of that particular scene is showed and then it goes back in time to show the preceding events.
Chronologically the black and white sequence should come first and the coloured ones later.
They use memory inside memory, this was quite a head spinning film .

Jorge Luis Borges. "Circular Ruins" And "The Library of Babel"

1st Paragraph - Circular Ruins

The man who was called 'Tacitum man' manages to reach a ruin that was a temple. There he sleeps and intends dreams about a man. He was attended to by the natives so all he did was is sleep to carry on his dreams about that imaginary man. He was disturbed when he could not dream for a few days due to insomnia, he was very restless. Soon enough he created a person organ by organ, his son. The son would've been only a product of someone else's dreams. And soon enough to protect his son, the man himself finds out that he was also a product of someone else's dream.

This is like the circle of life.


2nd Paragraph - The Library of Babel

This library had several hexagon shaped rooms in which four walls had books shelfs that had thirty two matching books but the title did not match the inner contents of the book. The library seemed to follow two rules one being that there were 25 writing symbolism and the library existed since forever, there were other readers as well. Most of the books did not make any sense but someone said that there is that one master book that explains all the books in the library with translation of the 25 characters. 

Project 7. Documentary: NAKED

For this project I was partnered with Vanna Chan who is also in my time class. 

We were supposed to make a documentary on a fake event/object/ topic and make it look as real and true as possible. For our project we had to list down 5 ideas each. We deiced on one of the topics I came up with. 

It was the Naked Disease. Which was based on a virus that ate up clothes fibres in a matter of seconds and that was contagious on other clothes as well. So we started by showing :

An establishing shot, going onto the victim facing the depth of this crazy disease that ate up clothes in her entire closet. Soon she puts on the news and saw a surveillance video of another girl going through that on the street. It had become a widespread disease by then. Further ahead we interview a scientist who explained us the disease and the precaution that they had come up with.  We ended it with a news article that said, Did you get naked yet?

We had an amazing time shooting and thinking about the story line. We were very excited and using a mix of premierepro and imovie was truly enthralling. We used all that we had learned so far in my time class.

During our critique the major let down was the sound quality, which was surprising as if you hear in the video there isn't much problem. But yes it was hard to hear a few parts in our video. But people seemed  to like our plot and found it hilarious. Our teacher said that he liked that how we choose a funny disease and made it look very serious. But just to keep the humour alive we did put a few extras to make it light and engaging. 

All in all, the class just keeps getting better and this project by far was the best I've had. 

Thanks, I hope you all like it!

Concept And Progress For The Documentary

 DOCUMENTARY

 Title : NAKED

1)Theme: There is a virus that is in the fabric material of clothes that actually eats up the clothes that can suddenly make a person go naked and can also make all the clothes in his or her closet disappear. This particular situation is called the "Naked Epidemic."
Perspective of theme:
Vision: Have clips of actual incidents happening, news reporters, witnesses, scientists and ultimately show that there's a way to kill the "Naked Epidemic."

2) Opening- Record a normal morning routine of a girl, then showing her opening up the closet and seeing that all her clothes are missing.
            -Have a news reporter talking about this virus
            -Have an actual incident where a person's clothes vanishes while walking on the street
            -Have a witness that saw the incident
            -Have a scientist telling the details of this virus and what they're working on to cure this.
     Ending- Have flashes of newspapers that talks about the "Naked Epidemic"

3) -Establishing shot of the city in the morning, the apartment and the room
    -Girl getting ready in the morning (shooting her bottom half only)
    -Girl calling her friend to tell her that her clothes are missing from her closet (shooting from the
     back)
    -Friend tells her about the virus and tells her to watch the news on tv
    -Close-up on tv
    -News reporter reporting live from the scene where a person't clothes disappeared while walking
    on the street (focus on face)
    -Show the clip of the incident as something from the surveillance camera
    -Shooting different angles as the news reporter and witness talks
    -Shooting different angles as the scientist talks.

Attached photos are of the progress while taking the footage..

Documentary 101+ Story Board

Our topic is - NAKED! This is about a new epidemic that is the 'Naked Disease'.

This documentary will give an insight into what the Naked Disease is and how extreme its effects could be. We planned our story out in a way that we would show a how this epidemic is effecting a person in real life setting. Later we would interview a doctor/scientist who could give us more information about this disease. We wanted to make it dramatic including, funny, shocking and serious scenes. 

For the opening we are going to show the establishing shot, then shot the events that are taking place with people, news and the interview with the scientist. 

Our story board with take you through the blueprint of the story...