Experimental post 16 second edit

We added the paper room to the rough cut after formatting, renaming and sorting into bins. We then opened a new sequence specifically for the stop motion as we would be working with hundreds of clips on one time line, the first problem encountered was that we hadn't shot the stills in 16:9 and whilst we new how to change the scale for each individual clip we didn't know how to apply this to all the clips. So we decided to put them through pro res also so that we working in the same format across the whole project, whilst also sorting out the scale and blending frames together to create a smoother animation, we then adjusted the speed to a speed that we thought worked best. In the ideal world we would have connected to an external stop motion editing software for this, but we had no time or knowledge for this. We then created a fine cut sequence and connected the three sections. 

Half Way through this process we had a tutorial with Dominic when we only had a rough cut of the woods and the full file of the paper room. He seemed quite impressed with the quality of shots and the work involved, and said the success of this piece would come from how we moulded the three sections into the final piece, he also said we needed to think of a stronger ending so as to part with the over used woke up and it was all a dream cliche. As previously mentioned of losing the experimental part of the wood scene, this was navigated around through his suggestions that the beginning lulled the viewer into a false sense of reality which would then be harshly disrupted by the light art animation. 

I think you could argue that this film has surrealist form, having recently studied surrealism for an essay for the approaching research module, there are elements of this film that are reminiscent of my findings on the theory. ‘Surrealists are not concerned with conjuring up some magic world that can be defined as 'surreal'. Their interest is almost exclusively in exploring the conjunctions, the points of contact, between different realms of existence. Surrealism is always about departures rather than arrivals.’ (Richardson, M. 2006) There are these 'cotact' points between realism and the dream world creating multiple realms of existence. Surrealism was ‘a new genre of films that would reproduce the illogical world of dreams or Briton's desire to create a new reality via the superimposition and montage of everyday reality and the dream world’ (Ezra, E. 2004) I think this furthers the argument for our films surrealist form having every day reality meet with the dream world, a dream world created through the variety of experimental techniques we utilised.