From the class Integrative Studio 1 · Learning Portfolio post, October 23, 2019
Description
In this project, my team and I made a video that was based upon our dreams. For footage, we tried to capture ourselves when we were not looking or paying attention to the camera and did not know we were being recorded.
The Dream Team
Kasper Bielecki
Fiona Marshall
Taylor Hooper-White
Nia Murray
Summary
This project is a collaboration between the four of us, The Dream Team, if you will, to create a visual compilation and representation of not only our dreams as individuals but dreaming on a whole. We made ourselves a group of onieronauts, recording our dreams, moving through them, digesting them, cutting them apart and putting them back together, admiring what we created along the way.
Progress 10/23/2019
Last week we discussed our personality test results after the dream activity. This led us to discuss our skills and compile a list of who is best equipped to do what. In the dream activity, we wrote some of our dreams down and cut the dreams up into snippets. These snippets were mixed up in a pile and then randomly drawn from to create a new narrative. We could not come up with any exact ideas for the plot of a possible video but we came up with an idea to get inspiration. We all agreed to keep a dream journal for this week and write anything we could down. Now we’re going to put our heads together, write a script and split all our work and start working, or at least that the plan.
10/30 Progress Update
My Dream Journal that I Kept on My Phone.
Dropped a Macbook air in front of a library and it snapped in half
Moved to japan
My friend ralph wanted to eat so we went to a restaurant
We couldn’t order anything cause everything was in Japanese
I went to download google translate to translate the menu
I sat down next to two guys
My math teacher from junior year Ms. Troha walked in
She said hi to me and one of the other 2 guys
She then walked into the bathroom
She criticized the two guys for decorating the bathroom door by covering it in beer caps
A girl named Cristina Dunst is hosting a get-together/sleepover
Her mom offered to buy me an apartment to sleep in as to not sleep with the girls
My friend pierce comes over and parks his car poorly going all up on the curb
My Dad started reheating leftover pancakes for breakfast but he would wet his pancakes in the sink before re frying them, he said it made them better.
My girlfriend was in a wheelchair
She had keys to my house
I went to Avli a greek restaurant by her house
I got a chicken sammich
It was served alongside a pink drink and a beer and a newspaper
I drank pink drink left the beer
Felt kinda bad since I don’t like drinking
I Played the card game spit with my friends Georgia pierce and Jacob
K was there with her pink hair and refused to tell me her fav movie when i asked what it was
My girlfriend knew what that movie was for whatever reason and told me
Ralph was at my house he asked me “hows the girlfriend ”
I said good and jokingly said “hows urs?” thinking he had a significant other he hadn’t told me about yet tryna
he admitted to having one
Ralph was dating the polish girl named Julia from Jake’s Oktoberfest party.
11/6 Progress Update
Last week we went to Columbus Circle and shot scenes from my, Taylors and Nias dream respectively using a sony video camera rented from school. At the park some imagery we filmed for me included but is not limited to scaring some pigeons, playing with sand, sitting alone and throwing a water balloon at Taylor. On our way back Nia and Fiona got onto the train first and filmed me from the inside of the train rolling out of the station as I walk after it. Once we met back in the studio classroom we devised a plan to use the green screen to put old-timey cartoons behind us as we do outlandish ridiculous non-realistic things. Lastly, Fiona compiled a rough cut. This week we plan on filling in any gaps within the video and editing it more to get it smooth and flowing.
11/11 Rough Cut
11/13 Final
I learned that I don’t hate shooting video as much as I thought that I did. It’s actually rather fun provided you are interested in the subject matter. I also played around with different camera lenses that provided different angles.
I also learned a lot about film theory and the words to many concepts that I was already well accustomed to.
Originally posted on my Parsons Learning Portfolio.