Lights

This was the hardest idea to create. In the beginning I wanted to show how we sleep constantly in order to survive but then that transferred into the thought of turning the lights on and off doing different poses each time the light came on to show how we waste power. Here I took that idea to a whole new level. Instead, I had my roommate video tape me coming home from class emphasizing how tired I am, I walk over turning off lights, yawning, and throwing my backpack to the floor in order to turn on my flash light so I can turn off my light to lay in bed and go to sleep. I forget to turn off the flashlight and it remains on while slowly, all of the other sources of lights surrounding me turn on one by one showing this very act in wasting power. It was hard to get all the lights into the frame and show how bright it kept getting so this took many takes like the hair video. But here I believe in all, it demonstrated this very idea by not only emphasizing the waste in power but by also executing it in its own perspective. This is shown through the constant movement caused by the panning of the room and the angles of me and the objects consuming the small space. The lights burn brighter in that space in order to show you that they are there even when we don't notice them. They contrast the darkness of the room giving me light instead of darkness. In the end it all balances with the different lights all showing up around me. I just stopped it there rather than turning off the lights because we waste power constantly without knowing it so it had to stay that way.

Hair

This was a very different concept compared to the rest of this project. I had thought about how people are constantly complimenting my hair whether I had done anything to it that morning or not. Here I took that ideal and twisted it around to give it a whole new sense and meaning. I wanted to show myself with different hairstyles to see if the viewers still think that. In order to post this question in their minds, I had placed a sign in the background to ask them the question, "Still think my hairs beautiful?" I had used perspective by showing just my head as though the camera was the mirror almost looking up to see what sort of hairstyle I have in store for it. From there I put a lot of time and effort into creating about 9 different, crazy looking hairstyles that slowly move above my head and surprise me. First off, I balanced the scene out by putting the light in the picture to balance out both sides since my sign was on the other side of me, placing myself into the middle. I also place emphasis into the picture by the many different hairstyles and the way I act. I act all goofy and "into character" every time a new hairdo is placed on my head to emphasize the crazy hairdo more and emphasize the fact that people always act and feel different when dressed up as someone else or have a different style than the day before, while in reality they are just the same person as yesterday. That is why I over-act differently to each paper wig as if I was a different person while outdoing it to show that I'm really not. Looking at the hairstyles, I use contrasting styles and colors to make them stand out along with my personalities as well as emphasizing the very characters themselves. This all comes together in unity creating the same effect.

The Art of Mastication

The Art of Mastication is simply the art of chewing with your teeth. Honestly, I have thought about the pattern of us eating day in and day out over and over and noticed how I never really think about it. It's just a habit that keeps us alive. In order to show this properly I had come up with the idea of showing just my mouth chewing and swallowing the food simultaneously up close like the lips in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. This emphasizes the pattern of our eating habits day in and day out while also showing our great need for it. I had also used scale as well as proportion in order to carry these ideas effectively which is shown through the close up of my lips, nose, food, and teeth. Along with this, I had pasted chewing and slurping sounds to the film to give the viewer an even closer picture that they probably prefer not to see. This also gives it a sense of rhythm. If you look real closely I am also eating many different things to also give the sense of it occurring multiple times a day.
These foods include:
*Carrots
*Pita chips with humus
*Black Bean Soup
*An Apple
* Rice Crispy Treats
*Froot Loops
*Bread
*Part of an Omelet
*French Fries
*Cake
*Drinking Water
*etc..
all in one sitting.