Summary:
To produce a 3 minute installation about a girl’s journey on a train to illustrate a sense of predestination.
Synopsis:
A girl travels through sections of a train representing different segments of her life.
Description:
This installation is about a girl’s journey on a train. Each of the cars in the train represents different part of her life. At first she gets in the second section of the train from curiosity and desire, while she gets forced into the last part of the train because things get caught on fire. This project is about predestination. I understand trains or skytrains as transportations that go from one destination from another. Sometimes one cannot get off after she/he gets on or does not know where the final destination is. I see trains similar to life journeys because sometime I think one’s journey for life is predestined: one goes to school, gets a proper job, get married have a kid, etc.
This whole installation is composed of surrealist narrative animations. There will be symbols, scenes that portray feelings and state of the girl’s life. This will be a loop installation so the final moment of each loop will be the viewers standing from the protagonist’s point of view looking in the interior of the train (4 screens). It will leave the viewers a question after watching: whether or not our lives are predestined, whether you want to leave the train if you have the option to.
Visual Treatment:
I am going to combine both traditional and experimental methods in the production. I am going to project 4 screens of animation onto the four walls in a room, creating the 3-dimentional atmosphere. Each screen will be connected so the character can travel from on screen to another, so it is like a 360 degrees cinema for the viewers. For each of the sections of the train, it will look visually and aesthetically different. My first thought of this are texture and traditional drawings deposited digitally for the first car of the train, digital texture and maybe some other experimental technique for the second car and 3d maya for the final segment.
Sound Treatment:
I will use both sound effects and composing music pieces. I am thinking of creating different mood for each of the segments of the train using music pieces while connecting them with sound effects like footsteps and door cracking sounds. For the first part of the train, it is going to be a more childish like, mild and calm piece while during the middle part of the installation, there will be a more intense and emotional piece.
Budget:
Paper $50
Scraping/ Texture/ Pattern Paper $100
Composer $250
Miscellaneous $40
Total $440
