Writing / constructing the script & thinking about cinematography / shots
Focus on storytelling, filming-techniques and implementing research.
Collecting media
Collected media (video + sound) from: Rottenmann (Austria) + Bad Bentheim (Germany)
Storyboard_02.11.2025
Building scenes around the script and camera-movement ideas – showing slow descent into madness
Simulating derealization / dissociation
Visual representation of panic attack symptoms / derealization, losing grip, feeling weird, hot or cold, getting pulled “back”
Building a small environment using Unreal Engine
Testing out various inspirations of forests in Unreal Engine f.e. structure of the “wedding forest” of Gildehaus (Germany – Bad Bentheim) to see if a mixed media format would create a better sense of “something is off”.
Heatmap experiments and mixing up FBX models
Using the 3D-constructed forest to blend it into camera footage and messing with gradient maps in Photoshop – later with “colorama” in After Effects.
Motion extraction experiments with moving objects / plants
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12Sg7XpMkQ-LktDE_veki6wQsUOlxAg20?usp=share_link
First forest walk_tryout
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-Xzxt4H2z5DgQecNXJ_zqRApjXhDsH7A?usp=sharing
Testing out different types of colorful scenarios to learn more about After Effects and its video-editing tools.
FB – 23.Oct.25_Research and Concept
FB – 10.Oct.25_First ideas
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