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HSC Showcase: Industrial Technology Multimedia 2022
Class of 2022 HSC Major Work in Industrial Technology Multimedia
Alicia Bansemer
Strawberry Blonde is an animation project of the child's film genre about an Asian girl in a white school. The project is inspired by the experience of people of colour (POC) growing up in a white society, using personal experiences as well as the experience of those around me I shaped the storyline and motive of the animation. Symbolism using people and their physical appearances was used to symbolise the cultural difference for people of colour to communicate the struggles and difficulties faced in adjusting to the western customs and values contrasting the Asian environment they were raised in.
Alessandra Campagna
Audition is a dance drama short film. It is inspired by my own interactions within the dance audition world as well as the harmful aspects that I have heard about and witnessed. I wanted to portray this through the main character, Elaine, and her bad habits that have dictated her days and morning before her audition. Elaine can be seen entering the waiting room for the audition where she has flashbacks to the days and morning prior to the audition. These noticeably negative impact Elaine but she proceeds to do her audition. Unsure of her fate, she goes home and waits for the answer and she gets the part but the audience is left to question, whether it was worth it and if it was really a good thing for her.
Elizabeth Curran
The project ‘Self’ is a music video and magazine which explores a teenagers suffering with insecurities and self-doubt and the effect that has on their mental health and mood. The concept of this project has been inspired by Billie Eilish’s song ‘idontwannabeyouanymore’ which explores her experience with self-deprecation and self-doubt. The projects intended audience is 15-20 year old females with the aim to convey the universal experience on insecurities and the power it holds over how one perceive themself. The music video explores the experience of self-doubt and the effect it has on the protagonist ‘Chloe Barns’ and her emotions. The magazine plans to highlight how insecurity effects all, exploring the famous makeshift persona ‘Chloe Barns’ and her battle with insecurity even after she releases her song, being a pre-existing one which features in the music video.
Belinda Heaton
A Lost Light is a short animated film accompanied by a promotional poster, about a small creature finding and befriending a floating light, and helping the light save its friend and home from a dangerous shadow monster. The animation and story line was inspired by children's media such as Studio Ghibli films and Coraline and includes fantasy themed visuals and music to aid in its fantasy setting/ story.
Aliyah Issa
Hiraeth is music video style short film centred around the concept of ‘hiraeth’ an old Welsh word that refers to a homesickness for a home to which you cannot return or a home that perhaps never was, the nostalgia, yearning and grief for long lost places of the past or future. The film is a bildungsroman style genre with a fantasy and mystery undertones. The visual style is vintage inspired, 1930s to ‘60s, however it has an overall timeless look that cannot be pinned to a specific decade.
Ardelle Kurniawan
Bright Mind is a lifestyle magazine with cultural influences, along with a promotional video. My magazine is calming for the audience and informs them about negative feelings and strategies to overcome such feelings. I called my magazine "Akarui", meaning 'bright' Japanese, and the English title "Bright Mind". I chose this name to leave readers bright minded, feeling better and inspired, with a bright, calm and aesthetic magazine. My intention is to leave readers feeling inspired, showing leisure activities, and articles which resound with them. Akarui is directed to teenagers and young adults who often feel stressed, through an artistic and creative lens.
Nikki Mehrseresht
Unspeakable World is a music video with an emphasis on lighting and sound design. The title comes from a speech by Alan Watts by the same name, which is incorporated into the soundtrack of the video. My music video explores the journey of a girl’s hypnotic expedition into an "Unspeakable World". The video begins with the protagonist stepping onto a train and putting on a pair of headphones. As she shuts her eyes, she finds herself deeply entranced in the beauty of an alternate plane of existence; a neon world of colour and distortion. In this way, the headphones symbolise freedom and a form of escape from the material world. The genre of the music video is conceptual, and it takes inspiration from the aesthetics of the Expressionism art movement.
Caitlyn Muscat
Oneirophrenia is a short film animation with sound design, which was created to represent the problem of creativity suppression in everyday life, expressing the need for logically minded jobs, which, in turn, forces society to supress their creative side. This animation follows a protagonist who studies and works full time, the lack of colour representing the suppression of creativity in her current life. However, in a state of ‘oneirophrenia’, the audience follows the protagonist through her dreams, all of which are in colour. A series of short stories and scenes represents the different dreams that one may experience when asleep. As the protagonist wakes up on the final day of her studies, her life is in colour, representing how, after this final day of exams, she is free to live her life and be her creative self, allowing her dreams to become a reality around her.
Sabrina Sultana
Defectum is a short film accompanied by a digital poster. I was heavily inspired by Edgar Wright's film ‘Scott Pilgrim vs the World’ and aimed to create a satirical representation of common video game tropes such as the good versus evil and good guy always winning stories. Additionally, I held a feminist focus throughout my film to subtly subvert the common image of male superheroes, and used an entirely female cast within both my protagonist, villian, and side characters. The overall storyline of my short film follows the character of Valentina after she was selected within the opening character selection scene. Following this, she finds a poster of the villain ‘Queen Defectum’ which triggers the remainder of the film following her quest in defeating her.
Alexia Vaggis
Seventh Heaven is a Music Video paired with an Album Cover that displays the effects of drugs on the brain and on a person, and how one can become dependent and consumed by them. The story follows an adolescent girl who relies on drugs to escape from her reality. Colour is intended to reflect the emotions and feelings of the person at the current time, and how they rapidly change throughout the video. The use of animation reflects the hallucinations she experiences whilst under the influence, which contributes to her decisions. Set in her house, juxtaposes the different realities and how her perspective changes when her mind is altered. This altered state creates a new reality, a one in which she would rather constantly be in, communicating the dependance of drugs.
Sarah Wiseman
Strawberry Creek is a 2D Top-Down Game which is accompanied by a review video of the programmed game. My game is heavily inspired by the aesthetics of cottagecore which draws on nature and a natural palette. I wanted to execute this artistic vision through the design of my assets and sprite and through the colour palette used in my game. The game centres around the main character who has moved to a farm and must make friends, trade and grow food to upgrade her farm. It is both non-abstract and conceptual, as the player has the ability to move the character through the designed tilemaps and explore the different areas of the game.