Proposal - Never Ending Nightmare

Anna jolts up from her sleep in the middle of the night, you can just see her face from the moonlight shining through the window. She looks at her clock as it reads 2:30 am, switches her bedside light on catching a glace of the photo of her younger self and father in a frame next to the clock. Anna notices her bedroom door has been opened slightly. As she gets up to close it she notices a light coming from behind the door. 

Anna steps through the door into a dark room that she quickly realises is her bedroom, except with a few differences. Her stuff is all over the place, with the wallpaper ripped off to reveal blood drips and her name written in blood all over the walls. Anna quickly goes back through the door only to realise she can't escape and is back in the nightmarish room. Lightning strikes to reveal a dark figure standing behind her. As she steps back Anna notices her photo frame on the floor. Picking it up she sees the photo of her and her father only now her face has been ripped out of the picture. 

The lightning strikes again, this time revealing the dark figure standing right before her face. In a panic Anna drops the photo frame and falls back onto her bed. Her eyes open again as she jolts up back in her normal bedroom. She looks at the clock to see it's still 2:30 in the morning. 

Introduction to Creative Project Realisation

The aim of this module is to plan and build a set using paint, wallpaper, props and other items that create an effect, with the idea of 'The Uncanny' in mind. The areas that are going to be covered during this module are art direction/ production design, SFX & VFX, proposal writing, research and 'creative realisation'. 

Art direction/production design - we are going to be given a tutorial in using hand tools in preparation for building the sets. We will be creating mood boards to help with communicating our visual ideas and working on set as a art director, decorating and building the sets.  

SFX - Special effects are props that are used on set to create a visual, e.g. using fake blood to drip down the walls.

VFX - Visual effects are created in post-production when using after effects and photo shop, e.g using green screen to place a still or moving image onto a shot. 

Proposal writing - This will be a free writing exercise that will help to inform an idea I have for the specific theme for the set building task. 

Research - This is going to be important with helping me to fully understand what 'The Uncanny' is and what sort of props or moods are going to be relevant for using as part of the set. 

Creative Realisation - An overview of a film making process with specific changes, and offers practical skills and introduction to new software with a view of extending scope of imagination. 

In preparation for writing a proposal for a idea we took part in a meditation process that is supposed to clear your mind to help with creative writing. From this I took away a sort of Alice in wonderland based idea that is all about childhood, imagination and going through a 'rabbit hole' to discover deeper thoughts.