Audio storyboard

here is the audio storyboard. it sounds a bit hokey and cheesy, and pretty pretentious, but i think the rhythm i set up will be effective.

I won't keep the voice over in the final piece.



the track is 'heysatan' by sigur ros. here is a clip of them playing live. amazing group. solid heritage.

i hope to compose and record my own track for the final product.

next up: visuals!

below is the script for the storyboard.



in a world filled with ...
boxes ..
buttons ...
order, the technical, the routine, the HABIT.
in a shallow world, with shallow worries, it's easy to just

drift off.

or to see a world filled with

hate
fear
loneliness
war
poverty
starvation
environmental disaster
destruction

we become PARALYSED
by the PERPETUAL
this brings about an impersonal PERSPECTIVE

like we're missing something.

....

- sometimes when we dream, we become aware that we are in a dream. this is called becoming lucid, or lucid dreaming.
if you want to experience this phenomena on your own, try making habit of asking yourself while you're awake

"am i -really- awake?"

if you start to become 'aware of your awareness' so to speak, when you're dreaming, it will be easier to slip into a lucid state.
IN YOUR DREAMS ...
lightswitches might not work.
watches won't make any sense
words on a page will change, or be completely incomprehensible
in our dreams, we live in a world of

CHAOS
NONSENSE

have you been paying attention?

sometimes it seems like ... we get caught up ...

wound up....
completely distracted by the world we see.

in our carefully controlled chaos
it seems like we took a good thing
packaged it, wrapped it up, put it in a box, told everyone that they wanted it and then put a price tag on it.

too bad when we opened the box, it wasn't there anymore.
we can't regulate it. or package it or sell it

...

but we are capable of growth. and change.

Brain research is beginning to produce concrete evidence for something that Buddhist practitioners of meditation have maintained for centuries: Mental discipline and meditative practice can change the workings of the brain and allow people to achieve different levels of awareness.

This may sound like fantasy, but real scientific studies are taking place.

Richard Davidson, at the university of wisconsin took on some of the Dalai Lama's most practiced students with 10-50 thousand hours logged in meditation practice.

10 student volunteers were used as a control.
both groups meditated on unconditional compassion.

the results were astounding.

meditation activated the trained monks' minds, showing record numbers of gamma waves, and showing that their brains were moving in a more organized, more powerful way, some monks showing numbers never reported before in a healthy person.

our brains can change
adapt
grow

we can achieve new levels of awareness, that transcend this ordered chaos, this shallow world of fear and hate.

this gives us hope for the future

our path isn't fixed

there is no box

are you -really- awake?