Week 11 Research / Reflections

This week I had the intention of capturing footage from unusual angles that differs to the human eye in creating these multiple perspectives. I imagined this would contribute to our video in acting as a “sort of short-circuit inside consciousness involving both the spatiality and the temporality of mental life.” (Zippel 2016) of how our minds can jump from one idea to another when dreaming. These short circuit moments I see were insightful in giving me the idea of how they can create areas of spaces within the video that are reflective of the moments in a dream where our senses in reality may be heightened and more dramatised.  

Having found that from dream scientists, “characters, social interactions and emotions are the most valuable” (Fogli,Aiello and Quercia 2020)  in a dream helped me to come up with what type of footage I shoot and what it can represent in the final area. This gave me intention in thinking of multiple interpretations of what I could shoot and their meanings whilst imagining how it may look coupled with other footage. Our group then found it natural in shooting intuitively in areas of our daily lives (e.g regularly visited locations, locations) that were quite familiar to us with the aim of efficiently gathering this type of footage. At this stage of the production process, continuity and similarity in shots were not too vital as creating this dream state we wanted was work to be done in the editing phase for next week.  

References 

Fogli, L. M. Aiello, and D. Quercia (2020) “Our dreams, our selves: Automatic analysis of dream reports,” Royal Society Open Science, Volume 7, Issue 8, https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.192080

Zippel, N (2016) “Dreaming Consciousness: A Contribution from Phenomenology” Rivista internazionale di filosofia e psicologia, Mimesis Edizioni, Milano, Vol.7 (2), p.180-201, doi:10.4453/rifp.2016.0019