I began by gathering source material to craft both audio and video components. I used both Bye Bye Blues and Rosemary’s Baby, with the “la la la” melody from Rosemary’s Baby as the most distinguishable section and the deep resonance and droning notes from Bye Bye Blues (I reversed the audio clips and slowed them down by 90%). I also included additional sound effects like snapping and screaming. From Prelinger Archives, I used two videos: “Design for Dreams” and “Garden Wise.”

     I wanted to simulate the absurdity and sometimes terrifying nature of dreams. To do this, I spliced together short clips in quick succession to create chaos and often reversed video clips to complement the reversed audio clips and establish an unsettling tone. The curling flowers and the intense zoom-ins elevate the drama and exemplify the anxieties present in dreams. The quick changes in pacing and overlapping images imply different dreams that occur during sleep and create a sense of disillusionment. The video also opens and closes with a parallel scene of a woman in bed, zooming in at the beginning and zooming out at the end to signal the start and end of the dream.