SURGE – Nick O’Brien, Auley Ryan, Kal Zhang
SURGE focuses on the immersion of its audience in the emotions of its characters. Through watching the piece you are transported in to the head space of three main characters and feel their emotions of fear, lust and intoxication.
SURGE is an experimental video work featuring rhythmic editing and tonal montage. Through these techniques along with extensive rotoscoping we hope to both display these emotions as well as immerse the audience within them.
SURGE does contain three narratives, one for each of the emotions, but the movements of the plots are not the main focus of this piece. Instead we have focused on the moments of affect, the moments between moments, the moments of emotional reaction. This focus allows our audience to not only see the story unfolding but also become aware of its effects on the characters.