Class Exercise B

This was a class exercise based on the concept of Surrealism. In my group i had Sam, Eunice, Pearlyn and Mel.


Idea & Concept

We were asked what our definition of surrealism was and we came up with the following,

Definition of Surrealism: An illusion of reality.

Very simply put we felt something surreal had to be something fantastical and which doesn't seem to match with reality. We also discussed further and provided another definition:

Surrealism is the result of looking at the ordinary through the lens of the extraordinary

But anyway we kind of agreed on the fact that some sort of illusion is created when we say that something is surreal.


Our plan

We brainstormed for a little while and decided to play with the idea of having a laptop screen to subsitute a certain body part in a photograph. For example, the screen would display the body part that it was supposed to replace. We also wanted to show a hand holding a cup of coffee passing through this screen, so that it seemed surreal.

We did a little trial and error before getting the shots together. We took shots of Pearlyn and Sam's hands across Eunice. Eunice then edited it on photoshop and that was how we managed to get the final result.


Here are some of the shots we used to build the final picture:

Some hands:
















And all this led up to...


Final result: