Blade Runner Collage and Creative Process

 


Creative Process: 

Preparation: 
- Watch Blade Runner directed by Ridley Scott 
- Research Philip K. Dick who wrote "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"
- Review notes from previous movies such as 2001 Space Odyssey to draw parallels 

Incubation: 
- Eye was a recurring symbol and theme
- In quote "eye has seen things you wouldn't believe" 
- Red in the eyes of replicants 
- Tears and raindrops must be incorporated in some way 

Illuminate: 
- Center: creator 
- Inner eye: replicants; people deemed "bad"
- Outer eye: bladerunners, police officers, Racheal (exception replicant)
- Tears with pictures of attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion, C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate 
- Rain: no pictures

Evaluation: 
- Creator is center of all evil; overall antagonist; creates these "good" and "bad" groups based on what he deems good or bad 
- Inner: Roy, Pris, and other replicants placed here and surrounded by red eye because their eyes gleam red, but also indicates evil. Although they themselves did not choose to be evil, they are perceived as evil for their violent, destructionist nature. 
- Outer: Deckard is the main bladerunner ridding the society of these "evil" replicants to maintain order and prevent chaos. Racheal is placed here because although she is a replicant she is programmed with memories thus has an emotional complex differentiating her from the other replicants. She does not cause any harm or chaos and ends up falling in love with Deckard. 

Implementation: 
- draw and eye and place characters accordingly cutting out images to form the shape of an eye and put them in their respective areas 
- cut out raindrops with no pictures on them to represent how all the memories Roy has seen, all the thoughts he has had will be washed away when he dies just like tears disappear in the rain and become one without meaning. 

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