Abstract:
The project is an approximately 15 minutes film. The title of film is
wake up. The premise of the film is that reality is indistinguishable from a
dream. The desire we have in real life would reflect to our dream. When we
can only get our desire in the dream, how should we do? And when the line
between the reality and the dream gets blurred, how should we distinguish
them?
The story of the film is about a man. This man, who has a happy family
with a lovely wife and a normal and steady office job, persistently has some
crazy dreams. In his dreams, he is a bad guy and a criminal. And these
illegal activities give him a feeling of excitement and freedom he does not
feel the same way in his ordinary life. When he wakes up, he can remember
some of the pieces of his dreams and these pieces seem to be connective.
Encouraged by his wife, he decides to keep a record of his dreams.
After a period of recording, he knows more about the man who lives in
his dreams. He is infatuated with the life he experiences in his dreams
because he can do whatever he wants. While he buries himself in recording
the dreams, his ordinary life gets messed up. He starts mixing the events in
the dreams with real life. However, things he is doing in the dreams are
getting out of control. He has done a lot worse than he intended. At some
point, he suddenly realizes that it is difficult for him to tell which life is real
and which life is not.
The goal of “wake up” was to prove that I am capable of being a
director in the future. This project was a culmination of the skills that I have
learned within the realm of digital storytelling, while pushing those
capabilities to unexplored depths. I utilized theoretical and technical skills
that I learned during the past two years in this project, including my writing
skills, the ability to direct and shoot a scene, knowledge of camera and
shooting, and the post-production skills, such as using the Adobe Creative
Suite for post-production.
