Writing Exercise
Lulu Ammitzboll | Creative Writing
Lulu Ammitzboll | Creative Writing
My desk sits in the void between the kitchen, the living room and the stairs. It sits in suspended space, not quite blending into anywhere in particular, but not quite jarring enough to upset Mum’s sense of feng shui.
My desk sits against one wall underneath Mum’s favourite painting. I think it looks like motel art. It’s pink flowers on grey, and when the light shifts in the room the flowers seem to switch from Barbie-purse-pink to Bratz-doll-purple. When I work late, the tendrils that surround the flowers sometimes look like they’re moving. Though I’m no where near the ocean, I think of the water. They’re like seaweed that touches your foot and makes you squeal, or kraken tentacles curling around ships.
When I work late at my desk, the whole house fades into the brightness of my monitor and the ache in my lower back. It gets dark enough that I’ve been known to knock things off my desk. They clatter and roll, but no one ever calls down the stairs to ask if everything is okay. I think everything is okay.
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Briana Foster | Animation
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Cinematic VR
Alice Wilks, Lara Adams, Oscar O'Callaghan | Screen Production
Alice Wilks, Lara Adams, Oscar O'Callaghan | Screen Production
“Not the Same Sunset,” is the working title for our experimental 360 short film, based on the writing prompt of the same name. The film itself is somewhat devoid of structure, instead more with a focus on conveying an uneasy and anxiety inducing atmosphere to the audience. Throughout the short, we hear the echoey remarks of a girl picking apart her flaws, drawing from aspects of personal life to her own insecurities about her body image. The film itself conveys these insecurities visually by situating the perspective of the camera in a black void, and as different issues our lead characters has with herself are mentioned, a different coloured spotlight shines on them. An example of this has to do with the main character addressing her distaste with her hands and the shape of her fingers, and as she mentions this, a hand is held close to the camera, illuminated by a sickly yellow spotlight. As the film nears its conclusion, the voices become more and more incessant and deafening, the edits more frequent and the background music gradually more intense. The viewer, watching the film in a 360 format will be looking all around them as the spotlights turn on and off in different positions before eventually dying down as our protagonist quietly mentions something to effect of having to keep moving on with her life despite these doubts.
