Elisa Benaggoune DFSA

This is my final presentation for my self portraits which I printed in A4.

For my experimental film, I want to make a simple concept more intense by using a white room, a bed and my character whom is going through a dream like state "lucid dreams" which she has no control over, but then she ends up in her own dream in a white wedding dress covered in blood and then carries on dreaming and wakes up as she was before she entered her lucid dream. For this idea, I was inspired by Billie Eilish's music videos of how they are shot so simply to say a bigger message and Tracey Emin's bed. I haven't planned this fully, but I'm going to book a studio soon and hopefully get Evie Gibbons to play my character sitting on a bed. Tracey Emin, my bed - HUCKMAG. As my experimental film explores femininity and female oppression in the media through lucid dream aspects for the concept, I want to add blood as an uncomfortable effect on the audience to what they are seeing on screen to make them more uncomfortable about the one female ch...

So, in comparison to my last blog post researching portraits my ideas, and concepts changed when I decided to stick with my first concept which was capturing vulnerability through making myself perform in front of my window in my most vulnerable state that I don't normally allow an unknown crowd to be aware of, and to look at which was the main concept of the entire project to make it a performance between myself, and people outside the window. The entire project was in inspiration of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window and Maria whom also performed for the sake of her concept. I also did test shots on 35mm, and digital before carrying out the final shoot which was shot in the evening because I felt like that also was a vulnerable time for people in general. I was also inspired by a British photographer Nadia Lee Cohen who shoot self portraits in different characters and played around with that idea of capturing different states of self. I was also inspired by Dear Strangers ph...