Final Project 'Dream Bed'

Heres the video of all the photos i've taken of the 'Dream bed'.

My project was based on the concept of 'Dreams' what interested me most about dreams, was how strange they were, as I rembered having many dreams that had the craziest story lines, and most of the time, they didn't make much sense. So for the final project, I chose to collect and write out peoples dreams on bed sheets. I wanted to learn about about other people's dreams, and to hear their interesting stories. I chose to write them out on bed sheets because it related to the 'field' in which my project idea came from, and to also make it interactive in some way. eg You can sleep in it

I'd like to thank every one who I pestered in telling and letting me use their awesome dreams. These people include:

Ceren Gunes

Catriona Laird

Lorna MacMillan

Kayleigh Macleod

my mum

my dad

my sister

Hayley Moore

Gabrielle Downie

Rebecca McClung

Tabitha Bruce

Stephanie Bazeley

Emma Rankin

Mairi Laird

and anyone else I annoyed while doing this project :D

Photos

I've finished writing all the dreams down on the bed sheets.

With the help of my buddy and fellow computer art student Ceren Gunes, she helped me take photos today of the 'Dream Bed'. She also posed in a few of these picture too, and let me borrow her digital camera when mine stopped working. Here are a few photos.

There are quite alot of photos, im thinking of putting all the photos together in a video with photos of close ups of each dream written on the duvet covers.

Dream Collecting

So i've been going around the place, and asked quite a few of my friends and family about a dream they remeber. I've found some really interesting ones, involving getting eaten by crocodiles, and meeting celebraties such as Johnny Depp. I've bought the plain white bed sheets and some colourful pens so im about ready to start writing them down. In the mean time here is a sketch idea of the 'Dream Bed'.

ANOTHER new Idea and this time the FINAL project Idea

Again, I've had ANOTHER idea for the final project and this time it's my final idea.
The reason I came up with another idea was because again, I wasn't really happy with the whole comic idea.

My new idea is a project im calling 'Dream Bed' In this project, I'll be asking around and writing down random dreams people have dreamt. I then write down the dreams on Bed sheets and take photos.

Dream comic work in process

Heres the first page of the comic. It starts with a man bored with his life and living his dull life, so I pretty much went with my second idea for the story. The first page isn't finished yet but its just to give you an idea.

New Idea!

Okay, so the dream animation idea is not going so well, mainly because, I feel I don't have the time or the skill to create anything that I would be happy with.

Good news is i've thought up a new idea. Instead of, creating an animation, I would draw a comic strip instead, showing the confusion of dreams and how dreams reflect reality. Not sure on the story yet, I have a few ideas though:

1, Man has trouble sleeping and so has to go into theropy in which they study his dreams.

2, Man has boring dull life, but when asleep, his dream world is alot more fun, colourful and crazier.

Gonna have to work on the idea.

Dynamic Communication work

After looking at some Salvador Dali paintings, as reasearch for ideas on my seed, i came up with these two images (rough unfinished sketches) on the idea of dreams. The girl with the cut out face reveals the random thought going through the girls head. The other one conveys how the dream world and the real world are parellel worlds.

Dynamic Communication work

After drawing some ideas for my seed I needed to think of where my area of investigation was. I decided it was my bed (my seed being dreams). In this picture i drew I show how dreams are made up of random thought, fear, memorys hopes and dreams and other elements.

Dynamic Communication work

In these pictures, I show how people can some times not be themselves in reality (eg the charcol picture) but in their dreams they are allowed to be who they really are (eg the coloured picture.)

Dynamic Communication work: The dream of dreaming

Here are some sketches for my 'seed' in dynamic communications module in my course. This one investigates the words 'The lunatic is a wakeful dreamer' In this picture, I try to convey how people try to understand dreams when some times it is impossible to.

Nightmare animation

Okay heres the nightmare animation, sorry about before, the GIF didn't work so heres the video.

Animation work process

So far, I've come up with the nightmare part of the dream. In this Gif I drew a few different pictures of a screaming man in the dark which I scanned in, and put them together on Flash.

Not sure what sound to put with it yet, Im thinking of recording some lines and sounds and putting it together and editting it to make some abstract sounds. Unfortunalty Im having trouble thinking of what else I can add to the animation.

Final Project Idea

My idea for my final project is a short animation in which it shows the abstract visions in dreams.