Here is a small screen capture of a very WIP / rough cut of a storyboard for my dream project. Following the template that was shown in our first class (orbasquara.com) my dream project is essentially an abstract, poetic dreamscape, a hyper-real experience and journey that exists on the web. It's a series of manipulated images, videos/motion, typography and song strung together that creates the piece as a whole. I am still gathering information and imagery, so there is not a narrative or really a flow as of yet, but I am starting to see it take shape with what I have collected so far.

I was absent last class, but I made my best attempt at a general storyboard for my design portfolio. I have worked on it since creating a rough outline, reshot some of my old projects, and will bring in the PDF I have thus far.

Here is another image edited with some typography. The staircase is alluding to the steps towards your dream world, where you can release your mind and let it run wild and free. I want to make sure these are spaced out relatively evenly within the project, these would almost act as the opening slide to each next set--but they all have a similar aesthetic.

Movement/light again illustrated here as a theme. Traffic lights in combination with bold movements and expressions as well as illusions/reflections that are also going to be explored further. 

These were my favorite shots from the shoot (click to see animation) Movement is something that is always so strange in dreams. Often times you're moving and don't know how, flying even though you're not capable, transporting through time and defying gravity in every way possible. We were lucky to find an outdoor elevator during our photoshoot and captured that free immersive feeling of feeling totally invisible during your dreams and in your movements. The first one is the original color, the second was stylized and edited, and my favorite is the last, the black and white. 

These I am still looking to fit together. I have a few different surrealistic ideas for them but I'm not sure how I feel about them yet. I am a big light/sun person and it is a theme that is often present throughout my dreams as well as the darkness to contrast. I have a few videos of the wheat/sun flares that I could make work with this set but just not quite sure how to move forward with it and how to involve typography.

Animated gif for the dream project (click the image above to see the animation) I researched the idea of spinning dreams as it is something that occurs in my own. Most dream interpreters say that spinning dreams often mean something in your life is out of control, that your anxieties are taking over and you are feeling overwhelmed and that spinning feeling is representative of that in your dreams. However, I find that when I have spinning dreams that my life actually seems to be moving along just fine, perhaps a lot may be happening all at once--but things are actually becoming clearer as I go. And so I chose to illustrate the flower coming into focus, to represent that feeling of finding clarity in contrast with the endless spinning.