This film allows us to look at some key components of the Long Term Project through the means of a visual masterpiece. It highlights the importance of having a narrative in a body of work and visual components to support that narrative. In this sense, a long term piece of artwork should resemble a film in many ways. Though it is simply a selective snapshot, it can still tell the same story…...a picture is worth a thousand
words after all.
Preview: As you watch the film, I’d like you to consider the following questions.
Theme: What are the underlying ideas?
Imagery: What images or scenes are used to support the theme?
Personal Imagery: What imagery is used throughout the film that is personal to various characters in the film. (eg. Imagery, that’s connected to a character, that shows up in various places).
Mood: What different moods are shown/felt throughout the film? How are they created? (What colours? Dark vs. Light values? Images? etc.)
Narrative: If you had to create a single image to narrate the theme of this whole movie, what would it look like?
Review: After watching the film, form groups and discuss your ideas on these questions. Reply with your answers as a group in the Comments section of this post. Minimum requirements are as follows:
Theme: (at least one major idea)
Imagery: (minimum of three ideas)
Personal Imagery: (minimum of two examples)
Mood: (minimum of two ideas and descriptions of how they are communicated to the audience)
Narrative: (describe, in detail, the images components and why they are important)
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ReplyDeleteGroup 1
ReplyDeleteTheme: Love, heaven and hell.
Imagery: His wife's paintings, his memories.
Personal Imagery: His wife was painting his heaven.
Mood: The mood depends on the location. The heaven has a light mood and hell had a dark mood. Overall the movie had a depressing mood.
Narrative: An image to represent the movie would be a purple tree (the one she destroyed) or their house that shows up in every place.
Theme - It is all based upon pictures, and emotions that his wife has put into her paintings. He likes to make it part of his world in heaven, his dreams are his reality.
ReplyDeleteImagery - The sence they use the most in the movie is sight. When the film is sad they use lots of greys, blacks and yellows and some imagry that surrounds that emotion are spiders, fire death. But when it is happy they use lots of purples and bright colours to enhance that sence and they also use imagry like flowers, sunshine and animals.
Personal Imagery - One image they come back to a lot in the movie is the picture of her husband standing by the tree, this image depicts a sence of loneliness and abandon and another image they go back to is the picture of their dream home/world. It gives a sence of believing and hope for the future.
Mood - The two main moods in the movie are happiness and sadness. These two emotions are portrayed not only by the actors but the setting surrounding them. When the feeling is happy their surroundings are filled with colour and paintings that are happy to give the viewer a greater sence of that emotion. While on the other hand when sadness is the greater emotion their surroundings are dark and filled with sorrow and death.
Narrative - A collection of all the pictures and paintings that his wife made or that they liked, like the man by the tree. Their dream house - with flowers and lots of green bushes. The picture of her daughter, around the age of 10. And the picture of the purple tree she made.
Group 2:
ReplyDeleteTheme: The entire movie was based in love ( with his wife and kids), Life because everyones got taken away and 'live life to the fullest' because they wished they could do more while they still had the chance.
Imagery: This movie used a lot of imagination between the characters. It was a very visual movie in the sence of the art that was created.
Personal Imagery: Chris's memory of his family constantly came into his mind. His wide committed herself because of thoughts of him and how they are some how connected. Certain paintings had deeper meaning to Chris, they were highlighted ones.
Mood: It's depressing because everyone died, so that makes us sad. At the end when his family was reuinited, it was a happy mood. They showed this by using very bright and light colors to show happiness, and when the sad parts came they showed grey and dark colors.
Narrative: The paintings were important because it was his heaven. His wife was creating it for him on a 'work inprogress ' painting.
Theme:
ReplyDeleteThe things your willing to go through for love.
Personal Imagery:
-the dog
-the “dream house”
-the tree
-the painting
-the different characters they were in heaven
Mood:
-anger/frustration- tears, yelling, thunder/rain/lightning
-joy- happy/bright colors, music
-fear- hell, dark reds and blacks, fire, spiders, old and broken down, dead
Narrative: The painting of the tree. Half of it would be bright and purple, to symbolize their love and all the good times. The other half would be dark, leafless and dead to symbolize the anger, depression and frustration.
btw that was group6
ReplyDeleteWhat Dreams May Come
ReplyDeleteBy: Kalan, Chris, Jacob(Group 5)
What are the underlying ideas? His kids died, then he died and then his wife committed suicide. He was trying to find his wife within hell.
What images or scenes are used to support the theme? Fire, paintings, scenery, death. They used paintings and other types of images to demonstrate emotion and looks.
What imagery is used throughout the film that is personal to various characters in the film? (eg. Imagery, that’s connected to a character, that shows up in various places). They used paintings that she painted to create his afterlife. They also used flashbacks of his life to show memories of what he was thinking.
What different moods are shown/felt throughout the film? Sadness and to always keep hope. He never gives up, that is a sign of hope. When he is talking to his son in hell, which is a sign of sadness. When he finds his wife and brings her back to his afterlife that is a sign of happiness
How are they created? (What colors? Dark vs. Light values? Images? etc.) There are dark colors to show sadness and depression and brighter colors where used to show happiness and hope.
If you had to create a single image to narrate the theme of this whole movie, what would it look like? It would look like half dark colors and half light colors to show the difference between hell and heaven.
Kylee, Ben, Kaitlin.
ReplyDeleteTheme:
• No matter what happens in life something sad will always happen.
• Dreams are mostly things that we wish for or want, and sometimes it comes true.
• Heaven is all colorful and everyone is really happy and then Hell is all like death, dark colors, and people in pain.
Imagery:
• All of heaven looks like one big picture someone made.
• His own heaven is made up with his own thoughts in his mind.
• The love from the father was used to help the mother get out of Hell so she could be with him forever and their kids.
Personal Imagery:
• The pictures that the mother made, like all her paints.
• The dog in heaven with him brought back memories for the father, also when he was out to go find his wife he had other memories too.
• The father and the mother stayed together through her own paintings
Mood:
• There was major depression from the mother when she has lost her whole family to car crashes.
• At the end of the movie there was happiness because the whole family was together again up in heaven.
• There was anger from the father when he found out that his wife was in hell and that he couldn’t see his kids yet.
Narrative:
• We could take some of the paintings she did like some of the really happy ones and the really sad ones and put them together.
• We could draw heaven with a happy stick person and then hell with a really sad stick person.
• We could draw an angel showing the father to heaven and then a dark angel showing the mother to hell.
What dreams may come. Group 4
ReplyDeleteTheme – Never giving up, never falling out of love.
Imagery – They use different types of artist tools like paint, charcoal, are drawing. In all of the painting that his wife did they all had many textures and make the painting where they live in after they died more3d and real.
Personal imagery – when he was with his family. Being with his wife in happy times when they first meet. But he also has flash backs to the times when his son was getting scolded for not being good in school.
Mood – The moods were sad, something’s that would be able to describe this mood was when the tree that his wife was painting wilted from the beautiful flowers of purple to a black bunch of branches. And then happy when he gets the flash backs of his kids and they are all laughing and playing around. Another one would be scared, when you see in the movie that he gets out helping out at the car crash you know what’s coming and you have that feeling of anxiety.
Narrative – If I had to pick one picture that would describe the movie in one picture that would have to be the scene where the hole family reunites with each other in front of the house that his wife had painted to be there dream house. And they are all happy and the mood is just great.
Theme: When he dies he wants to remember his wife, so he turns her paintings into his heaven and she uses her paintings as a way to still be with him.
ReplyDeleteImagery: The movie depends on your sense of sight. They use dark colours and an omnipresent feeling through her paintings. (He's in most of her paintings)
Personal Imagery: One image that we see a lot throughout the film, is of the tree, that she inevitably destroys. She visions him standing beside it. Another is how in his heaven, everything is made of paint symbolizes his wife who is a painter.
Mood: The movie gives off an overall mood of depression, but happiness too. Everyone dies, which leaves us with a depressing feeling. The movie is shown with dark colours and with somber lighting, making the film appear darker.
Narrative: One image that could be used to represent the movie, is the image of a man standing beside a tree. The image is of a painting his wife did of him. Another one is of the dream house, that is in every location in the film (Earth, Heaven and Hell).