'Insomnia' A short documentary: Finished video

Below is the final cut for my video.

I am very happy with the final product as I feel that it captures insomnia in a light-hearted way and judging by the feedback that I got it was effective and people learnt from it, which was what I was aiming for

'Insomnia' A short documentary

My brother has struggled with insomnia for many years now and so I intended to use him as my art piece, this makes it more personal and therefore I feel it has deeper meaning to it. For the post 16 gallery I wanted to create a film piece based on him and so I began to interview him and collect picture from his childhood.

To the left are the questions that I asked him and my reasoning for choosing those particular questions. My initial plan was to have the film playing over the top of the threaded box, but when I experimented with projecting more over the top of it I realised that the box would take away from the film and the film would also have to be very small, so I chose to just have the film playing in a room on its own, chairs were placed around it in a theatre position and the film was on loop so that any parts of the film would not be missed, I kept the box in the room and used it as an opinion box, I had a sign asking for people to write their opinions on a piece of paper and place it in the box and to the right is some of the feedback that I got

 I began by importing the clips of film that I had using Adobe Premiere Pro, I chose this program because I had worked with it before so I was familiar with it

 I decided to start the film using only sound so that the audience could build up their own picture of what he might look like, adding to the aspect that people will judge before they know, I added a title at the beginning go it and had the pictures cross dissolve into one another so that it would show that the young photos are my brother.

 I decided to add titles at the end to highlight the last line which is ''Fix it, somebody fix it'' I feel that this is the most powerful line in the video, I feel that it sums up the illness and it should have a greater effect on people

I created this video not to pinpoint the illness or to make judgement of it, but I created it in order to educate people.

This is the board I had outside of the room which it was projected in, the room was dark and had chairs placed to make the board the centre piece with a box from a previous piece which people could write their opinions in

Insomnia Workshop

I have began to turn my project to the direction of 'Insomnia' as I feel it is something that has not been explored enough yet, Our class did small workshops based around their topic and I showed students the power-point below and gave them each a box with various utensils and asked them to ''Show how insomnia makes a person feel''

Here are some images of the workshop and the students in progress, when I asked the students how they thought the workshop went, they said they enjoyed it and it helped them to be more confident in just doing rather than thinking to in depth about an idea




Below are some of the final products that were created, they all helped me to think about colour and using products that I found anywhere

Alongside all of this I was still thinking of different things I could do using the perspex box and so I came up with a few ideas.
An idea that I pursued was wrapping it in white thread, we had made a combination piece with a few students where my box had another students images projected over the top of it, which mimicked my layering style, and so I thought a video piece projected over the top of this would be a good combination, which is where the idea for a video piece began...