The Younger versus The Older Self.

Fantasy versus Reality.

Throughout my performance process, I’ve been influenced a lot by the use of space and aesthetics used in music videos.  The above video plays with the dreamlike reality/fantasy world that I aim to create in my show, with the flowers and the transitioning from one world to another being of extreme importance in my piece to create and enhance this vision.  In the video this is achieved as it almost follows the journey from childhood to adulthood, with her child-like self breaking through into the adult world, leaving behind her childhood and her dreams (although in my show I hang on to them!)

This is the video to the song Dream by Priscilla Ahn whose lyrics I have taken and incorporated into my performance by reading them rather than singing them.  This will form one of the voiceovers within the piece.

References:

BNLGUSA (2008) Priscilla Ahn – Dream (Official Video) [online video] Available from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKfDwChOoHI [Accessed 7 May 2014].

KatyPerryVEVO (2012) Katy Perry – Wide Awake.  [online video] Available from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0BWlvnBmIE [Accessed 21 April 2014].