The group of Jack and Amelia holding two ideas of the identity and multifaceted of a person. I joined them with the concept of reality and illusory contrasting. Having been talked a lot about how to combine our idea, we wanted to show the contrast between the outside and inner side of a person. Amelia found the artist Huang Qingjun who is from China. He likes to shoot families with all of their objects to show their identity. Amelia thought of international students would have different objects to show their identities because of the cultural diversity.
Jack found a reference from La Cimade which is about prejudice. He also wanted to use a mirror to show two sides of a person.
I found a collection of clothes from CSM’s designer Jojo which could show the contrast of reality and illusory. Because clothes are kind of surrealism and not for daily wear. After many times of conversation, we decided to show the contrast between the outside and inner side of a person by showing their wearing and their objects.
Before the shooting day, I borrowed these clothes and planned to let Sophie and Timami wearing surreal clothes in their bedroom to represent the contrast. But Jack thought these colorful clothes did not suit for the identity shooting. We should present the actors’ real-life. So we changed exaggerated clothes for their wardrobe clothes. Actors presented a style which is completely different from their daily life.
Jack recorded videos and directed Amelia and me how to edit them. We wanted to present the effect of flash in the video and end with a zoom out from the actor’s face.
The first actor Sophie wore bright-colored orange top and pants in the video while she usually wears dull colors. We also set common objects like the computer, books to contrast with her clothes.
Timami loves bright-colored clothes but she presented an office lady style in the video. We used strong visual objects such as a big helmet, mess clothes, colorful suitcase to contrast her formal suit.
After the presentation, Vicky told us the music of Timami’s video was a little bit empty. So I tried many versions with different background music and flash sound effect later.
I asked my classmates to watch and give some suggestions. Most of them fancy the original version but I fancy the second version as well.