Your Gorgeous Reality by Berk Civan
His creative imagination world indicated that communication somehow replaces face-to-face relationships. He feels more confident in his fake world because no visual cues make him worry about others’ reactions. He suppose himself the actor he admire and lives his life in his mind. However, he starts to face your own identity and at the end accept himself with his own characteristics. The shirt he wore during video symbolizes his obsession to look similar with the actor he likes.
This short film project, which includes common objects of both Turkish and American cultures, criticizes how people become addicted to the world they create with their social media profiles and the main character is the guy who starts to suppose himself the man he watched in movies. His creative imagination world indicated that communication somehow replaces face-to-face relationships. He feels more confident in his fake world because no visual cues make him worry about others’ reactions. He suppose himself the actor he admire and lives his life in his mind. However, he starts to face your own identity and at the end accept himself with his own characteristics. The shirt he wore during video symbolizes his obsession to look similar with the actor he likes.
This video is designed for a school project with no profit motive. There is no purpose of making any money from the music used.
Written, directed, edited by Berk Civan
Starring: Nate Dallimore & Sarah England
Camera/ Art Director: Ece Nur Saygın
Special Thanks: Arda Erlik (for Istanbul Images)
The songs used: (there is no purpose of profit from these songs)
True Loves Travels on a Gravel Road"- Elvis Presley(1969)
"'Hopelessly Devoted To You' - Olivia Newton-John, Grease (1978)
"Sarabande" in D Minor - George Frideric Handel/ 2002 edition by Yehudi Menuhin
"Me and your Mama" - Childish Gambino (2016)
"The Pursuit of Happiness"- Beyries (2017)