Screen Arts Proposal

Screen Arts Proposal

Is it true art to have meaning behind it or is it merely to confuse and shock its audience?

Is it a reflection of the subconscious mind
Makes scenes to very few,
makes you think and delve into meaning
deep thinking deep thoughts


Surrealism 
I chose the surreal to study firstly, because out of all the options it was the only one that sounded interesting, but also just because it pulls at the mind, streaches the limitations of reality, makes you question everything.

Pioneer to study: David Lynch
Overview: David Lynch was a surrealist film maker from America, Born in 1946, he moved around a lot as a child due to his fathers work (APA), David Lynch was married and had a son around the age of 21,

Overview of their work:Some of Davids Lynch's works include, Erazorhead (1977), The Elephant man (1980) Blue Velvet (1986). One of his works by the title of "Erazorhead" was one of his first films and was inspired by the living conditions of the neighborhood in Philadelphia in which he had lived a while.

Another one of his works Rabbits (2002)



Techniques and methods used: And how they are used to convey meaning
Timing, in his films there are always long pauses, though it can get boring in some cases, it can cause tensions and unease in the atmosphere, in these pauses there is rarely any sound,




How i'm going to incorporate techniques and explore in my own works:
Equipment and Software I will use:
I will mainly be using Photoshop as it has many tools I find useful for drawing, and it is possible to create giff's withing the program so that might take a part withing my body of work.
I also might possible use Fire alpaca, though that is more unlikely,
I can see it possible to use ToonBoom to animate some aspects of an artwork then transfer it into a gif.


Experiments to be conducted and intended results:
I want the effect of my work to be unsettling and disturbing, I want to try and create flashing images (not too fast as that can have negative effects on some people) For example it may come across as some sort of glitch or lightning, even a flickering lamp.

I want to see whether having the picture simplistic or cluttered, I want to find out how with will effect the atmosphere within the image and how my viewers will react to each one.
Seeing as i'm going for a sort of horror/thriller theme, inspired from David Lynches two films Rabbits and Erazorhead, I want to mess around with grey scale, and dull colors, while greyscale can make something creepy dull colors in the right places might enhance the creepy factor of my experimental works.


References:
http://www.openculture.com/2013/10/david-lynch-presents-the-history-of-surrealist-film-1987.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxKPBLjHAEA
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000186/
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000186/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm