I consider this project my best work for this class. My ideas for this project were vague at best when I began, but I wanted to do an effects heavy project that continued to develop some of my thoughts on dreams and dreaming. To pull this off I knew that I would need a fair amount of natural effects footage to create some original looking images.

So, I went out there with my camara and started shooting almost anything that struck me as fitting for the purposes of creating special effects. The things I shot are surprising simple, but when tweaked with various effects in Adobe After-Effects, they can appear quite impressive. I shot trees, a cardboard box, close-ups of plants, the ground speeding along while riding on a bus, and even the riveted edge of a piece of steel.

I don't want to give the whole thing away, though, since it might decompose some of the dreamy magic of this piece. Let's just say that I imported all that footage into After-Effects and then did my thing. The narrative text of the piece is all original - I just thought up lines as I worked with the footage, and the conversation between the mother and child just seemed to spring out of the act of creation. I rather like how it turned out. While this could have just been an effects piece, the text makes the work both poetic and thoughtful.

There are still a few things I would like to go back and change in the video - some of the effects don't look as good as I would like, and the timing can be fixed in a few places.

Although most of the imagery in the project was from footage I personally took, I need to give credit to George Grie - I used several of his 3D images in the work and have no desire to try and pass them off as my own. Mr. Grie, you are an amazing artist and thank you for creating some beautiful and inspiring pictures.