Assignment 4: Urban Fantasy 1

for assignment 4, we're required to do a photo montage on the theme of "Urban Fantasy". it was pretty tough to conceptualize something like that and the fact that we had to base it on surrealism didn't help much.

concept that i came up with:

"Singapore is a place where buildings get built as fast as they're being teared down and sometimes it seems like buildings appear or disappear all of a sudden. it's almost like whatever we're seeing in reality is like a clipboard in another space/dimension where buildings get moved around like paper on a clipboard."

below are the pictures of the first draft that i came up with and the different components that i took in a day walking around city hall.

urban fantasy

singapore flyer

random bus on the road

bridge opposite esplanade

construction

underpass

critic that i got was that the piece was too logical and not surreal enough. some suggestions were to make it more obvious that it's a clipboard by adding a background of an actual clipboard and have pins on it. there was also another suggestion to make the picture look like it's been torn. time to look for ways to make all those happen.