悟想浮游 THE FLOW

2014

「游如魚？綻如花？吾命，吾定。」

"悟想"指一些人把一些事想了很久，最後悟出意味深長的回答。"浮游"意味著一種既浮動又不穩定的狀態。所以，當"悟想"和"浮游"結合在一起時，這就意味著人們雖身在浮動不安的社會中，但他們始終能找到最適合自己的方向和定位。

"悟想浮游"由“花”和“魚”兩部分所組成，“花”的故事是由短片來表達，而“魚”的故事將由插畫創作來表示。

“花”代表那些有意識或能夠保持自我的人。主角明白自己的異常性，但他拒絕承認，令壓力積聚繼而崩潰。幸好經過與自我的交流後，他始終發現到自己的真實想法並重新定義出一個全新的他。

“魚”代表像沙丁魚一樣浮游的人們。以五個小故事來解釋不同種類的“魚”的定義。觀眾亦能通過針對每個故事的音樂，了解人物的深層情感變化。

Concept

This project is created base on Arthur Schopenhauer’s saying which is “People waste most of their life for acting as others.” Fear about mistakes, self-distrust and inactive on choosing are reasons that why people prefer going with the stream rather than having self-selection. However, there are still some people hope to make their own decision but lack chances, stop by others or lack hope about reality. Therefore, this project is designed for someone who still wants to maintain their personality and give them some suggestion for move forward.

Symbolism is an important method to explain the message with strange but interest ways. The most important symbolic images are “fish”, “flower” and “fruit”. ”Fish” represent people who go with the stream just like sardines. “Flower” represents someone who maintains his personality and blossom. “Fruit” represents the one who create his new mind after blossom and new point of view is developed in his mind. Those symbolic images appear on both video and illustration for more interesting and effective message transfer.

Storyline ( video )

He always feel sick about going with stream like others. One day, He suddely faints down and starts to transform. His parents and colleague shock by his illness since they cannot discover any different in his daily life before the transformation.

After a period of time, he wake up and find that his head transform into a blossomed flower from relfrection of mirror. He escape for his resting room, start to run and stop when he saw a person who has his original face.

On the dam, a self-communication about feeling toward going with stream last for a long time. He finds out the meaning of his transformation and refuse to go with the stream anymore. He understands that everyone should be different from others. We should proud of it but not try to destroy our personality.

Storyline ( illustration )

There are total five stories which talk about five different kinds of “fish”. First story talks about a “fish” who go with the stream with no negative feeling and she enjoy such life. Second story talks about a “fish” who always make thing wrong and she think that go with the stream is a method for her to adapt to the environment. Third “fish” contain negative mind since he always get pressure from others. Fourth “fish” just gives up himself and waits for the end of his life. The last story is about a “fish” who is just a madman and get crazy because of the pressure from the environment. The level of negativeness increase through each story.