Starting off I made a mood board presenting images that relates to dream. I used surreal images such as a woman up high standing out of a cave as she sees twinkling stars, there are pictures of dreamy airy colourful skies. Also there is a horror theme based to the mood board as it relates to me as i have horrific dreams such as fairytale dreams too where these images are surreal too where there are silhouettes of human figures rising up into the dim gloomy air above housing.
Dream Brainstorm
Blade Runner 2049
The blade runner is an action film set in the future, in my point of view the setting did look surreal, with a lot of neon lights the colour of orange, blue, yellow. There was noble and antagonist characters, and unreal people where real people cant touch them.
Audience– The film is targeted for people who are interested in action and movies.
Techniques- The film has science fiction objects such as visions of people run by technology, the way the atmosphere is surrounded by strong vibrant lights, the cars look really unique in a modern style where everything is set the audience can tell its based in the future.
The soundtrack aside from being too loud, it really consists mostly of weird sounds noises. There were gunshots contains sounds of violence.
What was the writer’s purpose?- The writer intended to continue the story-line from the original BladeRunner.
Opinion- What i didn’t like about the film is it was very slow, and i didn’t really understand the meaning of the film as it wasn’t explained well.
Get Out
(What is it about)- The film Get Out based on a black man going meet with his white girlfriend’s parents for a weekend, as the parents give out a polite presence, whereas a while after he has stayed there, he realises that there is a dark side to the white family and that the girlfriend brought him there for a reason for bad intentions. They try to torture him by taking his eyes and brain out as he fights for his life they try to kill him but he manages to escape without being murdered.
(The audience)- The film is mainly targeted at Mystery/Thriller fans , as the film builds lot of tension that have people and the edge of their seat,and suspense where scenes are unexpected.
The techniques that have been used- When Georgina’s mother is talking to Chris sitting down about his mother while she stirs the tea with a spoon slowly, bringing him deeper in to the trance; as she says sink he falls into the chair into an everlasting deep black hole. At the end of the film Chris rises hes in a dangerous trap as he tries to escape , she uses that technique by stiring the spoon to hypnotising he making him fall asleep.
When Chris begins to realise what is going to happen to him, the lighting starts to change and get darker this is done to make the film daunting, this gave the film a horror movie setting. The writer uses characters such as Georgina to show that something is not right, this is done when he is introduced to her in the kitchen and she gives Chris a weird stare.
The Dark Room
In the darkroom we made pictures on photographic paper this paper is extremely unique it is touchy to light and furthermore it makes astounding picture, we just made a couple of pictures. It took a few endeavors to make however tragically we lost our photos that we done on the photographic paper. These photos were made by me and Jordan, we needed to utilize contact sheet to build up the picture onto the photographic paper. We continued falling flat and this was on the grounds that the light continued getting onto the paper so it influenced the paper.
Double exposure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRScatYWYyQ
For this topic i used Photoshop and joined two photographs to make an intriguing looking photograph, for instance, I utilized a photo of one of my photography works and me I consolidated them together and this is the manner by which it turned out which I’m content with. I have utilized the video above to assist me with my twofold presentation. the photos underneath are the when of my trial on twofold presentation.
Photoshop Double Exposure
On Photoshop i created a stunning, photographic double-exposure self-portrait. What i did well is i chose a beautiful self portrait of my self and a spectacular background of nature to go along with the double exposure.What i found difficult about it i couldnt move the tree layer for some reason to adjust it; i couldn’t use the dodge tool and the burn tool to make parts of my self portrait darker and lighter thats why its the same shade.
How Hip-Hop Videos Use Surrealism as a Protest Tactic
Hip-Hop artists employments surrealism as their challenge strategy to precise racial separation. The most reason is to give individuals the message of how there’s individuals within the world e.g Dark individuals who are abused since of the colour of their skin and stereotypes from white supremacists. There are innocent black people who have died because white police officers.
Joey Bada$$ ft. BJ the Chicago Kid – “Like Me”
Sense of what it is about?
The meaning of this music video is about how in America black people are killing each other as there an enemy of a gang or the white police are shooting black victims for no reason as they seem them as a threat because there black so then they end up killing them.
In it, the young rapper spends time with his girlfriend when an armed robber attacks them. Though Joey is an innocent victim, he still ends up as the target of police brutality as the situation escalates.
Throughout the video, Bada$$ is portrayed as the kid who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. After witnessing the death of another man, he tries to avoid the police, but gets shot himself in the process.
FILMS BASED ON DREAMS:
Camera Components
These are the different part of the setting of the camera for the picture to present different effects.
ISO
The ISO controls
APERTURE
The aperture controls the depth of field.
Aperture Adjusting Ring – Used to change and measure the size in the ‘F-stop’ located around the Lens, in order to control how much the light that can pass through to reach the digital sensor.
SHUTTER SPEED
The shutter speed is the ‘curtain between the lens and the film. It controls the exposure, sense of motion and how much light enters the camera.
Shutter Speed – Depending for the amount of light that’s exposed by the time that’s set to capture the photo. A moderate shutter speed will result a movement obscured photo with much more light and development of an question or a individual than a quicker shutter speed that comes about to an moment solidified picture with less blur.
Lens
Lens – Optical lenses that helps the image/film presented to be as a focus point.
LCD monitor
Liquid Crystal Display’s are flat panel screens that is used to just for cameras but other technologies as well such as laptops, desktops, phones and more.
Westminster Kingsway history
The college has around 14,000 students 60 nationalities and around 50 languages spoken Students are mainly from London.Westminster Kingsway College was built in 2000, furthermore the college is built in other boroughs in, Camden, Padditition , Hackney. Aswell as the college is connected with other colleges like City and Islington and has other branches in Victoria, Soho Center, Regents park Centre, Alexandra College, . Theres over 15,000 students of all age groups most aged 16 and over. The college has a wide range of high education courses with different levels. This college was rebuilt into a new modern style, with the color coordination blue, white, brown and grey; with 4 floors. This department has around 45 staff members who contribute to one of the most dedicated learning support departments in central London. Also people who went to Westminster College are now famous such as Jamie Oliver who is now a Celebrity chef, where he is most known typically English cuisine and seen on numerous television shows and restaurants. Also another famous person Steve McFadden hes an actor the most popular soap staring in Easterners, the character known as Phil Michelle.
Artists PHOTOGRAPHER RELATED TO DREAMS
Ronen Goldman Nicolas Bruno
Nicolas Bruno is a 21 year old American photographer. He suffers from a condition called sleep paralysis for the rest of his life since he was 15 years old meaning hes awake but half asleep where he cant physically move his body, aswell as experiencing terrifying hallucinations. Through this he he recreates these horrible dreamland and turns it into inspirational art work. Bruno describes his work as “unsettling handshake with a stranger”. Bruno started photography classes in high school, he created photos of his terrifying dreams, this is where he found to turn his negative dreams into a positive thing. He says when he wakes up from his dreams the first thing he does is write what he remembers down and sketched out the vivid image what hes experienced Part from his dreams he also takes inspiration from other painters and sculptors looking at artists such as Caravàggio, Caspar Friedrich, Jacques-Louis David, and even contemporary painters such as Gilles Beloeil.
Ronen Goldman is an artist and a photographer who was born in California but now grown up he lives in the city of Tel Aviv. He has a unique style on photography based on dreams .Ronen’s work has been featured in art fairs in London, Brussels, Spain, Germany and also has a social documentary which is part of the ‘World Press Photo’ Exhibition held at the Eretz Israel Museum In Tel Aviv. Below, we chat to Ronen about the processes and stories behind his work, and how he began working as a photographer. The camerea he uses is A Canon 5d Mk2, to get outstanding effects of his pictures. He chose this topic because he has always been intrested of dreams he says dreams have such an impat on my life then he uses my imagination to complete it into the final image that he sees.
Filmaker Artist Michel Gondry
Michel Gondry is a is a film, music video, and commercial director as well as an artist and a screenwriter. He was born in France, as a young age he would create animated short films, for that was his passion after he finished his school years he enrolled in art college in Paris. Gondry will often draw his films from the sort of dreams he experiences and remembers at a specific time. he love to invent things, but it is true that creativity is very much associated with a certain form of immaturity, where that personality is still in him.when he was little he his hobbies is into art but not like museums and stuff he liked to draw and build stuff as well, like planes or cars.
Barbican Review
The Barbican is an art gallary a cinema screen and food cafes. Having a tour around the beautiful place we visited to watch an educational video the meaning of it is about global warming and the effect on nature. It was presented to us to educate us and to warn us about the polluted area around us. The Barbican Centre targets an audience of all ages because education should be for everybody. In my opinion the centre is modern with interesting pictures and it was a great opportunity to experience the building.
Picture Analysis
This image looks suspicious where there are several polices in a countryside. They have objects in their hand looks like a fire extinguisher. hammers. smoke rising up from that deep hill. The atmosphere looks abandoned.
https://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo/2017/contemporary-issues/amber-bracken
Review on Black Mirror: Nosdive
Black mirror is about where everyone life is depended on social media their life status relies on the amount of likes and friends you get on it, so they have to be nice to one another to gain that, even if they dont like that person. Its called Black Mirror because its a reference to the reflection you see on devices when turned off where they see them self reflected. However if the rating goes down then that character would be judge considered as homeless, gets no opportunity in that life. such as the character Lacie wants to buy a house and she doesn’t have enough ratings as money is converted into ratings. So too gain more she was extremely polite to every one and posted more to followed high rated people. The biggest rating is if she made a speech at her “friends” wedding who used to bully her at high school. Two days before she was about travel which led her into trouble because she had a fight with her brother. Her ratings went lower to zero. She had no value where people looked down on her like she was nothing.Black mirror is interesting to see the predicting future of hows society is going to be in the future swell its already starting by social media also I find it weir how everyone has a fake personality and boring because everyone acts the same and can’t show their true personality to survive in that life.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CONNOTATION AND DENOTATION
Connotation and Denotation is describing the meaning of a word.
Denotation- is more of an explicit to describe a word e.g the denotations of the word snake might be “reptile,” “scaly,” or “without legs.” Where it will inform the for readers.
Connotations- of the word could include “treachery,” “evil,” or “betrayal.” Which is a more negative description.
Shutter Speed
In photography, shade speed or presentation time is the timeframe when the film or computerised sensor inside the camera is presented to light, in like manner when a camera’s screen is open when taking a photograph. The measure of light that accomplishes the film or picture sensor is relating to the introduction time.
An illustration is showed up in the photos above when I have used light photography as I have played with the screen speed and ISO so I could achieve this sort of photography.
Final production
My dreams are often used to tell me what im afraid of and what i truly desire. The meaning my dreams is really what i interpret it to be. I created this final production because these are the examples my dreams appear to be dreamy.
Fantasy
I have dreams that i have a subconscious desire such as successive dreams, they are surreal in nature.
Adventure
I have that dreames that end up in the middle of no where like in a jungle or in a maze, and i cant see myself to escape, i think its reality until i wake up.
Mystery
Sometimes i have a mystery dream which often leads to a cliff hanger, when i wake up i always try to think deeply what happened because sometimes i cant remember the dream.
Travelling
I love travelling and i remember one of my best holidays where i go which is the Caribbean so i have dreams that im sitting on a tropical island with palm trees surrounded by me watching the beautiful aqua sea.
Food
I live for food more than food lives for me, thats how much i love food so sometimes i might have a dream about eating a whole buffet and when i wake up i feel hungry and notice it was just a dream and i feel disappointed, wishing to go back to sleep and continue with my dream.
Christianity
I have a dream about this because i am a christian, it could be one of those de ja vu types where i reflect on myself walking into a church or praying, of what ive done in the past.
Evaluation
I enjoyed doing this project based on dreams i found it easy as i can relate to dreams where i have one often. I managed to achieve what I was asked to do to meet the criteria. I have used my smartphone to take the photos to express the purpose of the type of dreams i have taken several photos of my own more of them were taken in central London. I took them in central London because its more exciting and cleaner as i thought it had a verity of aspects of my types of dreams i wanted to present.
What i could do to improve is I should suggest on using a proper camera to shoot my photo and and to add effects to the photos to make it appear more dreamier.
I chose to do photography based on dreams its because i had an idea of what i wanted to create. It was a great opportunity to explore different kinds of photography through research.
Jai McKnight 