shot type - eye vision

POV shots for landscapes

pan landscape



then quick close up flash as panning



these close ups are shot via zooming but then editing out the zoom

they are broken up by black spaces for blinking

essay notes. from lecture

psychoanalysis: a paradigm for understanding art 

used over the years to analysis artwork - look into past artworks. how it is used to analyse other films 


FREUDIAN SLIP 


OEDIPUS COMPLEX 


WISH FULFILLMENT 


SEXUAL STAGES 


LIBIDO 


DREAM SYMBOLISM 


EGO ID AND SUPEREGO 


REPRESSION 


ORAL AND ANAL PERSONALITIES 


UNCONSCIOUS 
3 ways to access the unconscious
-dreams
-freudian slip
-jokes



interpretation of dreams 

dreams contain long forgoen memories and the day's residues
contain a MANIFEST CONTENT and an unconscious LATENT CONTENT which are both connected by via a system of transformations
interpreation turns he alien manifest dream into something with pyschica meaning an unconscious wish hat the subject is trying to express



ID (instincts) (i want)    EGO(reality) (i will)   SUPEREGO (morality) (i should)



displacement is a unconscious defense mechanism, our mind transfes an emotion from one object to another, because the emotion for he original object is deemed to be dangerous
it accurs when the ID wants to do something that the SUPEREGO does not permit, the EGO thus finds some other way of releasing this tention. this creates repression.  

how to find meaning 

referential meaning

explicit meaning

implicit meaning

symptomatic meaning





freuds stages of pyschosexual devlopment

centres of pleasure changes

oral(mouth source of gratification from others)    
anal(anus sensual satisfaction and self control)
phallic (genitalia, mastrubation, oedipus complex)    
latency (pleasure from physical and intellecual activies, sexaul impulses repressed)
genital (pleasure directed towards full sexual maturation and function of sexual characteristics)




sexual drive can be displaced onto non sexual objects to become pervesions. this sexual enregy can also be channelled into non sexual actives



mirror stage 

lacan suggested that psychic roots lay in the unconscious creation of a spectacular fantasised mirror image, he concluded that children identify an ideal image of themselves in order to devlop their motor capacities
when the kid looks in a mirror he gains a mistaken image of himself as an independent being (without his mother holding him) he described this as a form of misrecognition and this fantasy of being autonmous persists into adult
the fantasy of the ideal ego remains with us , the kid is the signifier and the mirror supplies the signified
language allows social



lacan's three orders 

imaginary, symbolic and the real represent the stages of psychic maturation

the real is the absolute being, its the body and desire

the imaginary is the preself conscious state of infant up to the mirror stage identified with the mother  (realm of apperances and semblances)

the symbolic is the social language realm that we enter at a later stage and identify with  the father with the masculine and the world of order and authority



symptoms arise from trying to hold the 3 orders together

voyeurism 

to be looked at
from camera to characters
between characters on screen
between viewers and the screen


male : peeping tom
sexual gratification from observing others
from sigmund freud scopohilia
pleasure in looking is a childhood instinct which is sublimated into a interest in art or get fixated into the female body
ID desires in voyurism appeals to adverts and pornography
film making works on voyuristic charactristics
objectification and fetishism are related to scopohillia. people are treated like object to be enjoyed by the voyeur.

essay psychoanalical concepts

psychoanalysis is a set of theories created by sigmund freud and working on concepts created by josef breur.

the basic tenets are

1. a persons devolpment is detirmended by often forgotten childhod events rather than just inherited traits

2.  human attitudes are influenced by irrational drives that are rooted in the unconsicous

3. people must bypass psychological resistance to bring awarness

4. conflicts between the consciuos and the unconscious throught repressed meterial can materialixe in the form of mental disturbances

5. liberating the elements of the unconsious is achieved through bring materials to the conscious mind.

theories 

link to wiki

TOPOGRAPHIC THEORY mental apparatus can be divided into the conscious, preconscious and the unconsciuos. these systems are mental processes     (replaced by structural theory) 

STRUCTURAL THEORY divides the psyche into the id, the ego and hte super ego. the id is the repository of basic instincts, it is unorganized and unconscious, it operates on the pleasure principle.
the ego devolps gradually and works on mediating between the urges of the id and the realiosties of hte external world it works on the reality principle
the super ego is the part responcible for self observation


EGO PSYCHOLOGY is the idea that conflicts arrise from the egos function to try to repress and control our natural unconscouis impulses. it creates repression, it shows that mental impulses are basic needs. also the ego creates the idea of bizarre symbolic fantasy where pleasure is found in things which dont fit with the concousiness.


MODERN CONFLICT THEORY centres around hoe emotional; symptoms are character traitrs are complexs solutions to mental conflict, it gets rid of the idea of fixed id, ego and superego and shows conscious and unconcouis conflixt among wishes (dependent, controlling, sexual, and aggressive), guilt and shame, emotions (especially anxiety and depressive affect), and defensive operations that shut off from consciousness some aspect of the others. Moreover, healthy functioning (adaptive) is also determined, to a great extent, by resolutions of conflict. 


OBJECT RELATIONS THEORY explains how variations in relationships happen throught study og how internal representations of the self and others are organized. it aims to expain disturbances in an individual's capacity to feel warmth, empathy, trust, sense of security, identity stability, consistent emotional closeness, and stability in relationships with significant others.  it also explains how internalization of self and other create distubances of outwards behavouir. this is explained in frueds mourning and melancholia argueing that unresolved gried was caused by an internalixzed image of the deceased becoming fused with that of the surviror and this causing anger towards the deceased onto the now complex self image.



SELF PSYCHOLOGY emphasizes the development of a stable and integrated sense of self through empathic contacts with other humans, primary significant others conceived of as "selfobjects". Selfobjects meet the developing self's needs for mirroring, idealization, and twinship, and thereby strengthen the developing self.


JACQUES LACAN PSYCHOANAYSIS ideas of the mirror stage(The mirror stage is based on the belief that infants recognize themselves in a mirror (literal) or other symbolic contraption which induces apperception (the turning of oneself into an object that can be viewed by the child from outside themselves) from the age of about six months.) the real ( refers to that which is authentic, the unchangeable truth in reference both to being/the Self and the external dimension of experience, also referred to as the infinite and absolute—as opposed to a reality based on sense perception and the material order.)  the imagnary(marks the movement of the subject from primal need to what Lacan terms "demand." As the connection to the mirror stage suggests, the "imaginary" is primarily narcissistic even though it sets the stage for the fantasies of desire,Once a child begins to recognize that its body is separate from the world and its mother, it begins to feel anxiety, which is caused by a sense of something lost. The demand of the child, then, is to make the other a part of itself, as it seemed to be in the child's now lost state of nature (the neo-natal months)     and the symbolic (the symbolic is about language and narrative. Once a child enters into language and accepts the rules and dictates of society, it is able to deal with others. The acceptance of language's rules is aligned with the Oedipus complex, according to Lacan. The symbolic is made possible because of your acceptance of the Name-of-the-Father, those laws and restrictions that control both your desire and the rules of communication) 

futher reading



INTERPERSONAL PSCHOANALYSIS - ccents the nuances of interpersonal interactions, particularly how individuals protect themselves from anxiety by establishing collusive interactions with others, and the relevance of actual experiences with other persons developmentally (e.g. family and peers) as well as in the present.


FEMINIST PSCHOANALYSIS agrues male is subject and female object and the mother is the object of the infants rejection.  the "woman" can either accept the phallic symbolic as an object or incarnate a lack in the symbolic dimension that informs the structure of the human subject.the gaze and sexual difference in, of and from the feminine

GAZE The viewing subject may be offered particular identifications (usually with a leading male character) from which to watch. The theory stresses the subject's longing for a completeness which the film may appear to offer through identification with an image, although Lacanian theory also indicates that identification with the image is never anything but an illusion and the subject is always split simply by virtue of coming into existence



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PSYCHOSEXUAL STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT - freud believed that the natures of the conflicts between id, ego and superego changed over time as a person grows. they go through 5 stages each with a diffrent focus #: oral, anal, phallic, latency and genital. each focused on a diffrent physical center of pleasure. each stage relates to conflict between biological drives (id) and moral conscience (superego) . ability to resolve these conflicts determine ability to function as an adult. failure to resolve a stage can lead to someone becoming fixated in that stage leading to unhealthy personality traits.




MASLOWS HIERARCHY OF NEEDS






book psychoanalysis film theory and the rules of the game



the unconsousness
biology and culture
need demand and desire
the symbolic order
the real
the imaginary
desire
the two objects
fantasy
enjoyment
screen theory
gaze
what is not heard (the voice )
antagonism elided





how to use theories to analysis meaning 

• apply the theories to how the film was created 
• apply the theories to how the film is viewed 
• changes in the viewer as film is watched 
• theories applied to characters in the film 
• purpose of the film 

5 images production

i had my initial theme and my ideas for my photography i then went out to place my objects

i had practice before with placement and angles of the photos and their influence via light

this showed i had to have the object closer to the camera and at a comfortable angle 

 this showed that leaving the object in nature to become one with it made it look alot more natural and reflective of the theme

 this showed how important light is so the object and the background are kept seperate and focus is drawn on the object

this showed how colour is important. it gave a influnce meaning wise and also to create contrast 

this shows how the lighting should be done having the diffrences between dark and light it also was nice framming giving the object weight 

finally this shot showed how the background can be used in each photo to show meaning, this one sheep

so i went out to leave my objects 

i first went to place my microscope 

this picture looked really nice, the object blended with nature and gave a real purpose to being there, i used a high dof to bring more of the picture into focus, i made sure there was alot of space in the frame to allow moment of thought and not make the object look out of place 

i then left my painting. it looked really nice under the light and gave a real look of transcendence. i liked the reflections in the glass and hoped the wood would look good when more weathered 

i then left these 3 objects. they looked really in place when i took these pictures and had a natural relation to the place i left them i liked it. 

I then left them a week and came back 

this is where things didn't go so well 

i took lots of pictures but something felt off. 

firstly the painting looked to placed it didnt have a natural ting to it which i wanted 

secondly the andy golderworthy esc leaf paintings just looked silly but without them i felt the meaning was lost 

i didnt like the framing and felt like i didnt feel the right things were being pertrayed, it felt overromantised 

then i went to take a picture of the micro scope 

IT HAD BEEN STOLEN 

i kinda lost passion for the project and that point 

but then i started thinking about the permanence of objects and thought back to a photo i had taken on my journey and this inspired me to take the theme down a different path 

tree carving 

i started thinking about how we create this idea of permanence for ourselves and how we influnce nature to create this idea. 

this idea of carving into a living bio organism to promote our love and our identity which hugely interested me  

i decided i wanted this to represent part of me so decided i would go out and carve the trees myself. 

i thought alot about what the message should say, either I exist or a sentence....i decided on i think therefore i am as it represents a lot about the nature of self.  

i choose my location farnham park as i knew it had lots of trees and a wide range of enviroment 

i first started practicing craving on a log to get the technique i wanted 

i then found the trees i wanted. the represnt the passage of life. young tree, old tree, dead tree, logs then reuse

each carving took a long time but i made sure i spend as long trying out different shots on them so i had one which was perfect. i wanted the style to look like someone had just stumbled across on them. 

i had to be careful not to cut myself and wore gloves ect. ive done carving before so know what i'm doing

i wanted the backgrounds to be visible to give it a place in time.  

i then started carving. one or two didnt work either the wood was too wet or i messed up but the majority worked. i kept the writing as simple and readable as possible 

wanted it natural with human influence but no Photoshop

i wanted all the photos to connect to each other via landscape, life time, and words 

i wanted natural light but to play with the elements of lighting in lightroom 

wanted the photos to look amateur like someone had stumbled across the place. 

wanted the photos simple so the message isn't muddied   

wanted the photos to have a lot of texture 

had to look like the were away from urban 

i placed a reference to my old idea in one of the photos (the photo on permanence)  

i took alot of diffrent shots and framings working from the stuff i had done before to create what i wanted 

i was overall happy with my photos 

i then moved onto post production and lightroom 

i wanted no photo shop 

i only use light room 

from the shoot i had worked very careful with light at it's ability to illuminate the objects and leave shadow for definition 

i used lightroom to really bring out that contrast and clarity 

i then brought down the satiration whilst raising levels for yellow (writing)  and green (nature) 

i kept the tone constant between each photo to reiforce the relationship between them.  

presentation wise - i wanted a map to illustrate the journey and the placement of ourselfs in the world

this was the before and after in lightroom 

for the presentation i went to hmv to get the poster i wanted 

presentation

this is the link to my presentation




https://prezi.com/ceh0xpfviqu0/edit/#163_45341393 

photography backup idea development objects -perminance

scratching on trees objects


memory stick

photo

spray paint

diary

phone

ruler



what writing says : see me i am here        this is me i exist       I EXIST

photo change

this (scrached on tree with memory stick)
is (written i mud with diary )
me (chalk on wall with photo)
i (facebook post)
exist  (tattoo )