Artefact Explaination

My archifact is representing an already, sort of utopian building we have in Leeds (Victoria Quarter) changing into a dystopian style building. I have chosen to do this as it represents everything I have talked about in my essay, which is on how utopias and dystopias are represented through film. I chose Victoria Quarter as it is shown as a fabulous, clean and decorative building. This is clearly where people with a lot of money go to shop, as Luis Vuitton shop and Harvey Nichols are found there. All the shops show a quality of high standards. I thought it would be a good change between the way it normally looks to it being very run down and destroyed look. As there are various types of dystopia I had to think about what type I wanted to use. I went with the deserted look as Victoria Quarter is usually very pack full of people shopping. I wanted to show it without people walking through so it is like it is not important to the community anymore. I used mainly photoshop to create the distorted photographs, I then went into use After Effects to put it all together. If I had more time I would have done a lot more scenes and more in between shots to show it being destroyed slower. I would have also tried to create the feel that you are walking down the building but with the limited shots and time I was unable to do this. I am very happy with how it turned out as it does show the drastic difference between before and after. In my original proposal I said I was going to create a utopia and a dystopia building/ place in Leeds, however with the limited time and the amount of work it would have taken to create a utopia I decided to just keep with the dystopian theme. If I were to have kept with the utopian one as well I would have had to create a whole new building and place it in a dystopian look in Leeds which I didn't think it would have been obvious it what I was trying to do, I really didn't have the time either. I am glad I kept to the one as it meant I could concentrate more on manipulating the still images.