Sensory Detail 1

Sensory Experience: Memory
Initially, the idea of being immersed in endless white sandy beaches on Horn Island was quite exciting. Comforted that for the next ten days my skin would be drenched in such a luxurious texture. I loved the refreshing and silky feeling of the sand on my bare skin as well as the clean ocean sent it embodies. However, the very next day I felt sun burning down onto my freshly exposed skin, which resulted in pulsating red stripes alongside contrasting patches of smooth fair ivory skin. Later, that night when the breeze kicked up I began to feel as if invisible bees were stinging me, all over my skin. Realizing, the stinging pain that I was feeling was the sand in the wind hitting my blazing, blistered, red skin. However, these gusts of wind were the prelude to a major storm. Hard rain was further intensified by even heavier gusts of sandy wind. These, affects were so painful for my tender skin it became unbearable, forcing me to retreat into my tent for the night. Thinking, finally I can avoid the discomfort; until the wind and rain caused me red tent to collapse on my red skin.

Shooting Instructions for Descriptive Sensory Experience: From Memory
I would shoot this experience focusing primarily on the color red to convey the sense of sun-blistered skin. I think to truly feel this discomfort of this memory I must make the viewer remember their worst sunburn, how their skin looked, felt, and burned. The striking contrast between the skin exposed to the sun versus the skin covered by some sort of clothing.