The Art of Dreaming

CCR In depth analysis of production processes, decision making, strategies utilized, and overall effectiveness of film opening of the movie The Art of Dreaming.

So... this is it! I am glad to have had you as my personal audience throughout this journey, but now its time to say goodbye. I hereby present the final product of this project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrCjGoTyREk

KEY QUESTIONS How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues? For my film opening I decided to portray the thoughts of a young boy and the way in which different in modern society is constantly considered out of the norm or weird in a non-acceptable way; I illustrated this through the main's character perspective of the world and his abnormal views of life and nature.  How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?  My film has the hook feature of leaving the audience in suspense, asking for more because of the way that it shows a magical or supernatural elements right before the end. This hook appeals to a range of different audiences, from teenagers to young and mid adults. However the target audience I had chosen for my movie was teenagers of ages 13 to 19; because I believe they would be the ones greatly identified with the main character and his story depic...

It has been a struggle to start recording. I had focused so much on the theme and the narrative of the film opening that I forgot to plan the logistics on how to get it done. I already had an idea of who I was going to use for my main characters and extras. My brother is twelve years old and I had in mind using two of his best friends, Santiago and Juan, as my main characters and some of his friends from the neighborhood as the extras or minor characters for the background. The problem arose when I asked my brother to contact his friends and the fact that they are kids became an issue, I had to ask for their parents phone numbers and call both of their mother to arrange to pick them up and have them participate in my project. After providing a thorough explanation of what the project was about and why I was asking specifically their sons, the parents gave me permission and we schedule the recording to take place the week before spring break.  Another issue I had, was the fact...

It is time for me to explain the idea that I have settled in for the movie opening. After the long and exhausting process of brainstorming what to do, something that leaves the audience wanting more and creates a sense of mystery I decided to add a Snapchat editing filter of bubbles and visual illusions to convey a contrast between reality and fantasy. To make it dynamic, I will include a fast-forward and a flashback consequently to each other by only depicting the main character but at three different stages of his life: adulthood; childhood; and adolescence. This movement in time back and forward will add action, confusion, mystery, and overall dynamic to the film opening. NARRATOR I made the decision to have a narrator voice-over to add a sense of deeper meaning to the life of the main character, and to the occurrences in his life; as well as to invoke reflection through the young and immature voice of the speaker talking about insightful topics. INSPIRATION The idea prev...