Aura is a short film created around a doll I created out of China clay and wires.

The original video (the first half) was inspired from Zane Ruttenberg's song "Baby Possum", and it was filmed on a large whiteboard. The second half was created to contrast the two original smells I had in mind for the video.

The film was meant to resemble a dream and involve smell; because smell is barely recognized in dreams, I wanted to engulf the audience in an unrecognizable dream and incorporate the smell.

However, while filming Aura, I became more involved with the various textures and was unable to experiment with the smells.

It was then that I realized my visual attention dominance over the smell aspect, and I became just concerned in making the video visually curious before the presentation.

The idea of incorporating the doll and whiteboard together is in itself a breakthrough for me. With the addition of the green screen during the melting scene, I believe I'm moving in a possitive direction towards experimental animated films.

I'm looking forward to exploring those aspects more in the Spring '09 Dream and Delerium Act Lab class ;o)

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