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Prince

Prince is my final film project for the current school year.

It's a film about the loss of my grandmother back in 2015 and a recurring dream I kept having after her passing.

The reason it's called "Prince" is because that was her nickname for me when I was younger. As a kid I would let no one except her call me that and it's part of the reason I was so affected by her loss. Even though it's been 8 years since she passed away, I've never fully moved on which is why I'm making this movie.

Prince is a chance for me to finally properly pay respects to this amazing role model I had in my life while helping immortalise one of my favorite memories of her. The recurring dream. The dream itself is quite bizarre, I'm in a park that has a strong sense of familiarity but it definitely doesn't exist. At the park it's just a younger me and my grandmother, there's a bizarre square shaped building made out of the same kind of plastic as classroom chairs. The floor itself is made out of the same material as gym mats and inside theres a platform that you can climb up to which is what I do in the dream. After climbing to the top I jump down and land on the soft flooring below. My grandmother usually comes over to check if I'm okay which is when I go to hug her, but unfortunately that is when I jolt awake, usually crying. In the dream, there's sometimes a chance that a machine that has the same size and shape of a bizarre merry-go-round yet completely covered besides some vent ports is there too which creates bubbles but most of the time it isn't there.

I've never understood this dream. Perhaps it's a message from my grandmother? or more realistically perhaps it's a way of moving on from her loss. Regardless, when it comes to making this film I'm going to be taking a more budget friendly and innovative approach by making it entirely in VR with full-body actors, this allows me to do a multitude of different things while saving money and without as many health and safety risks. But it also allows me to create my characters as authentic to their real life counterparts as possible while still sticking to my chosen low-poly art style.

As excited as I am to be making this film, it's going to be a very emotional journey for me all throughout it's creation and I don't think I'll be happy with the final thing if it doesn't make me cry upon watching the finished product.

Here is a small lego render of the dream that I made during class one day. Once the film is complete, it will replace this.