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Wednesday 10th October 2007

To describe oneself is not very easy, so many factors and experiences define a person’s personality. The best approach to this brief would be to focus on a particular feeling or trait
that describes me the best.

The obvious thing to do, would list absolutely everything I like and dislike, do’s and don’ts. During the exercise I began to get very personal, I didn’t like to expose certain things about myself which could attract undesired attention.

At the production meetings we were told to work out of our comfort zones and do not do obvious things. The more I wrote the more I started to understand and realise the things that affected me.

I realised that I was extremely paranoid, whether that was something to do with cleanliness or the way I had a cynical view on life. So I would then concentrate on this particular area.

The challenge then is to interpret these thoughts and feelings and visualise them. As the subject matter was a psychological feeling, my research revolved around watching films and analyzing photographs and typography that dealt with the darker side of society.

Movies like Seven, The grudge, Silent Hill and David Carson gave me ideas in which I presented my project. I experimented with taking photos of areas that would create a sense of danger and would be thought as provoking. I looked at different typography that was edgy, scratched and gave a sense of unpredictability.

As time went on I felt that the images of people and environments I collected were all too predictable so I decided that typography would be the best form of delivery. I used eight to ten different type faces and over 50 different brushes in Photoshop to create the right atmosphere.

I then gave the animation a story line. The start explains the parnoia problem the middle shows a conflict and the end shows my failure to overcome the parnoia.

Next was the challenge of composing the right sounds.

The audio that would accompany the footage had to be strong, irritating and emotional.
I cut and looped different sounds and played it in reverse until it sounded right, some parts were slowed down and some parts were speeded up to get the atmostphere I needed.

I Hope you enjoy this personal insight in to mylife. All Clips are in the video bar in the top right hand corner.