Week 7 - Circulation - "Inside Out"
FOCAL POINT
1st person POV of character – parallels his experience
Free – navigating through normal world
Fixed – viewer controls get frozen when
man gets trapped by confusion
examining a note – leads into a cinematic memory
zooming in from a telescope in the world
EXITS
Internally
- Confusion triggered
- Humming calms confusion
Externally
- Rocking chair – place from which man calms himself
(rocking chair POV)
PATHS
Respects topography for normal perspective
Lack of ability to freely navigate through world once confusion sets in
Detours
Barriers to movement – lack of viewer control or jumbled controls
Caused by confusion & overlapping memories
RULES OF THE WORLD
Dictated by the severity of influence that dementia wields on the man’s perspective
The external world morphs to reflect the changes in his mind
1. Legibility - Text becomes unreadable/ blurry as character can't comprehend it
2. Solidity - Ground morphs from solid to dissolving/breaking up
3. Z plane Depth - Normal, Hyper, & flat
Normal = "reality", normal healthy perception
Hyper = signals transition to confusion, immersion in hyper memory
Flat = claustrophobic confusion, blankness, recorded static image
4. Spatial Relationships - Normal, inverted, distorted
Normal = "reality"
Inverted = transition - signals overlay of memory with present
Distorted = confusion
5. Dialogue - Talking to himself, utterances
Signals that the man is trying to remember or make sense of something
Lucid vs. nonsensical
6. Dialogue - Replaying Memories of Conversations
Normal
Jumbled/Distorted
Far-away
7. Phonograph Music
Close perspective/Loud – present, normal perspective
Becoming farther away/softer – distance from memory
Jumbled – distant from normal perspective
Humming tune – trying to regain normal perspective
8. Clock Sound Speed
Slow - calm
Fast - agitated
Jumbled - confused
Reminders of what he is looking for
9. Clock Sound Perspective
Close – reminds him what he’s looking for
Far – distant from original objective
10. Appearance of the Cat
Sound or image - represents a threshold into confusion or clarity
11. Time lapse/Time Passing
Lighting/Time of Day - Length of a Day
Grass/Ice spreading - A month
Summer to Winter - Seasons
Houses morphing – Years
12. Notes/Photos
Further inspection triggers memories
13. External Perspective
Morphs/brakes rules as mind gets distorted
3D becomes 2D, planes break video plane
Pseudo Stereo (maybe)
14. Humming
Challenges the dissolution of the world
Helps the man pacify the confusion & return to reality
Calms his mood
BLANK SPACE
Literal
Black video – man’s mind is lost, dark
Foggy w/ Ghost Imagery – trying to return to reality
Sensory
Quiet/blank/nonsensical – confusion
Loss of Viewer Control
Parallels man’s inability to affect/comprehend his world
