This video explores turning dreams into automatic memory re-call writing. Using voice as the medium for relaying this dream but having text in between.
Having the text at the beginning gave the element of a falling asleep into the dream and then when the voice comes it gives a sense of being there in the dream unconsciously conscious.
With the constraint of the close up perspective I was able to give a tactility to the imagery. The angles from below in the first two snippets of video and movement of the camera were effective as they portray someone looking around wondering, especially with the opening line of 'we were in our house, but it wasn't our house'. It makes the viewer question, is this a dream or is it an alternate reality? The juxtaposition of being outside and talking about inside, being upstairs, talking about downstairs gave a dream-like effect to the video due to dreams being the same somehow, but different to reality. The element of things not being what they seem gives a shift in perspective to the viewer, such like when I was experiencing the dream. My house, even though I have lived there for 2 years, was still unexplored.
There is a message and feeling of hope in the dream, to go from a 'normal' everyday situation to that which is so far removed from what would be under your house, especially during the pandemic. This pandemic has put a lot of strain on social interaction, not only that, it has stopped events, gigs and music from happening, these things were where we went to escape the everyday mundane occurrences and they have been taken away now for a whole year. We use these places as a way to escape reality, to experience a heightened state in consciousness through our senses. I highlight in the video the senses because they are important in my work as to give the viewer a sense of living vicariously through me. There is also a juxtaposition in the voice and words to the imagery giving the viewer an altered dream-like state and reference.
Watching the video back the composition of using close ups also gives a naive element; like a child searching and exploring their surroundings for the first time. It brings the viewer into the present, focusing on elements that would normally go unnoticed, and highlighting the beauty in the everyday.
What didn't work in some places was the unsteadiness of the camera due to the tripod sticking as i turned it. In some cases that works if it has been exaggerated, but in this case, it wasn't, I was trying to get a smooth streamline movement. To rectify this when taking more footage I will have this in mind and either exaggerate it or do re-takes when checking the footage back.
The music getting louder with the movement of the streamers is effective; The streamers are a symbol of movement in relation to the body as if dancing to the music. There are also symbolic references and representations; remains of a party, confetti on the floor, like the day after a party but then against the words being spoken its gives another juxtaposition of the 'happening' against the 'happened'. The ending is like being woken from a dream. Everything cuts out and you're left with just the voice and the image of the ground, like reality has hit, you can't stay at the party anymore, you have to go back upstairs. There is a reference to time here; How much time has gone on since the party? Is everyone still waiting upstairs? Is time different underneath the house?
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