Revised story board

Goal

My story board was a little too fixed in position, and the stage was not well enough considered. To make it more like a fictional narrative that conveys the feelings I want I am going to include shots from the person on the beds perspective. I will be shooting all my own material and either using the strait photograph or manipulating it some how, cutting it up, drawing on top of it, etc. The key to remember is that the pixels must be 720 x 480 or larger, which wont be an issue with all my own footage. With careful consideration of what I keep in my shot and more personal feelings conveyed through 1st person perspective I believe I will achieve the desired result with a layered composition.

storyboard

It will start with a short shot of someone laying there, then switch to ropes and chains creeping up the bed to simulate the restriction of sleep paralysis.There will be a guy (me) laying in the bed, looking awake, but unable to really move. He will have an out of body experience, which accompanies sleep paralysis. His astral self will walk off. Then a hallucination in the form of a shadow man will come and plauge me. and eventually he will leave. After he is gone my astral mind will return

Technical review

The Kid Stays In The Picture:
I need to figure out how to achieve the fade in look.
The screen splits and opens like curtains at times.
Juxtaposition of party audio to visuals of an empty home.
Uses a constant combo of Fades and Zooms, always moving, always flowing.
Isolation of color on one figure in old photo to create depth, and emphasis- makes a still frame more interesting.
Uses simple animation of stationary objects in background-water rippling, leaves blowing.
Seperating the figure from the enviroment and moving them sepreatly is very important.
Newspaper clippings floating around screen at different trasparencies and paths.
Still figures are overlayed onto film clips.
Work with what you have.
Their goal is to create a discourse (what IS non-fiction)
Distortion of images make is subjective.
Every element in a scene on a different plane- creates depth.
background skewed let or right, foreground stable.
blur effect to create atmosphere.
Always collecting material for film.
Use of drop shadow can be effective.
Work with saturation and mono-chromatic.
Sunflare to create movement.
direct still images like they were actors.
Few hard cuts, cuts affect flow and feeling
no narration at times, for a break.

In the Realms Of The Unreal.
Use of old film clips
film archives useful
Overly often.
Uses more still images than in " The Kid Stays In The Picture"
Depicting drawings in progress could be a nice effect
animated still images.
Stock footage used to achieve atmosphere
Decolorize everything.
Ridiculous amount of movement by seperating figure from background. and animating them.
Panning in still image used often, zooms as well.
Animation loops, in the explosions for example are used often.
Cuts are mostly fades. or sharp cuts.

Ken Burns Civil War:
Shakes old still images only slightly to make them look as if they are being shot from a hand held video camera, cool technique.
Lots of fade-ins and fade-outs
obligatory panning on still images, and zooming in and out of still images. Audio plays a stronger role with Burns, carries more weight.
use of archive film clips breaks up monotony of panning still pictures.
Also uses talking heads to break up still imagery.
and of course the good ole' Ken Burns effect, where he pans across a still image, resting in places of note byythe narrator.

ANimation in photoshop

My animation depicts scrawled sketchy drawing of what it can be like to experience Sleep Paralysis. It includes the binding feelings and an out of body experience.

Proposal

Sleep Paralysis is in the Parasomnia family of sleep disorders. It is characterized by waking up, and not being able to move or speak. There can be hallucinations in this state, and it can last from 30 seconds to in some cases, hours. Most people suffer from Sleep Paralysis at least once in their life.

By exploring the topic of Sleep Paralysis in a personal, social, and fictional format I hope to increase my understanding of the disorder, and in an interesting way, bring the true cause of the Sleep Paralysis symptoms to people who might not know what it is.

Free writing

So now I need to start my free writing assignment on sleep paralysis, I have had sleep paralysis about 10 times. starting a little over a year ago. The first time it was horrifying beacuse I had no idea what was going on. Later after some research I figured out it was a thing called sleep paraylisis that is in the parasomnia family of sleep disorders. Other disorders in this family are called sleep walking and night terrors. Sleep paralysis is often linked with narcolepsy as well. When you have sleep paralysis it is when you awake suddenly from a state of REM ( rapid eye movement) sleep and your motor functions are inactive. This is because in REM your body disables these functions to keep you from acting out your dreams physically in bed. The result of waking up in this state is being paralyzed for anywhere from 30 seconds to in some cases, hours. You can open your eyes and look around but that is about it. It is usually accompanied by a pressure on your chest a feeling of dread, feeling a presence in the room, and hallucinations. There are two types of sleep realted hallucinations, Hypnogogic and hypnopompic. The prior takes place before you go to sleep the later after you wake up. The hallucinations might manifest as the cause of your inability to move, and the pressure on your chest. There were many reports of creatures, demons, imps, even aliens, holding people down or sitting on their chests. THis is usually very frightening to most people the first and even following times. Sleep Paralysis is usually brought on by sleep deprivation, a strange sleep schedule, muscle atrophe, stress and possibly other reasons i'm not aware of.