Viv Brief 3- Seek

“Seek” is the final project for Xperiencegenerator studio. 

We all think of a bedroom is confortable and somewhere they feel very personal with. Somehow it is not always the case. This final project is to expressing a different emotion of the space by filming.

 This work is inspired by a fiction novel called “Before I go to sleep” by S.J.Watson which is a very exciting mystery story.

‘Each night when Christine goes to sleep

her mind erased for the day.

 Each day when she wakes,

 she tries to put the puzzle of her light together.

  But how can she know who she is

If she forgets her past?

How can she love someone she cannot remember?’

Through the description of the book, the character has experience the frustration and the anxiety of alienate from the surrounding.

Everything seems perfect but is it truly belongs to her?

Christine has secretly been writing up a dairy and keeps in the closet of the bedroom. The dairy has become a big part of her, she felt the journal is the only thing she can trusted; it tells her the truth about who she is.

Brain storming and Exercise

imitate the situation from text to image

The aim of this project is taking on the characteristic of the character's emotion and trying to simulate of her situation.

It has developed as a film which is expressing the emotion of terrifying and nervous about the gap in her life. 

  

List out some major distinguishing feature
of the book.

    

Drawing out the location of the scenes which are the places she show her emotions.

Through the semester, the exercise of 'real and unreal' project was also looking at the similar situation of different experience with the space.

Her bedroom is the most dominated location where she spends the most of time.  The architecture  model of her bedroom is to demonstrate the association between her and the space. 
 The decoration of the bedroom is created in a modern simple style. The wooden floor with repeated pattern wall paper has expressing the characteristic of the people who are occupying the space.

Plan out the bedroom

  

Research

  The film ‘Meshes of the afternoon’ by Maya Deren is the most influencing work to the project.  During the film, Deren using the same house over and over again to create an intensive situation. Light and shadow is a big part of the representation of the film as well.

'Meshes of the afternoon' by Maya Deren

Experiment

 -Lighting
-color effect
-different angle shot

Testing with different colours and different angle of viewing the model



filming test with different material and light in the real space



Final project -Seek

 In this project is using first person’s perspective to observe the space.  The different lighting has started to build up a narrative of tension. 

Choose the closet as the main theme of interpretation the space, not only because the character has using the closet as her private space but also it is very success to create a peeping experience to the audience.