Optical Illusions Further Film Research

After my film was chosen to be made on Tuesday, myself and the only other person in my group currently, Nick, met and discussed the idea. He seemed to like where I wanted to go with it and we decided to research more optical illusions and see what we could film. After having a look on the internet for optical illusions in the surrounding area that we could perhaps go an film (of which I could find none) I did find one that had been created in the local area that we could perhaps create a version of.

I love the simplicity of this one, and the photographer credited with this idea created a variety of these around the country, including Surrey.

I also came across a youtube channel featuring a wealth of optical illusions, with explanations of how and why they work. I love these because they use a variety of materials which offer a way for us to make our own illusions or at least use these in the re-appropriation part of the piece.

Now this is all well and good, but the aim of my piece is to show how little we see of the world based on how our brain incorrectly perceives it. When we see an optical illusion, it is because our brain is hardwired to try to make sense of the image it sees, finding patterns etc. Which is why an optical illusion appears to make sense, often in many ways, but ends up contradicting itself. 

So optical illusions are the tool, but the film needs something more to really run home the message. I was toying with the idea of hiding something in various points in the video, things the audience won't notice because they are focusing on the video. I feel like this would be something to give the audience a better understanding of the film by the end, and I've seen it work really well in other videos before. For example, the gorilla video and another video I saw many years ago:

It's just an idea, but I do think there needs to be another dimension to the film.