Week 6: 27th of August – 3rd of September:

Plans for the week:

 

The plan for this week was to finish the slides for the presentation and also to finish the script for the short film.

Achievements for the week:

The slides for the short film were completed and were just summarized versions of the project plan. The script was also started at this stage. It was here that I decided what a general breakdown of the scenes could be. These were as follows

• News room and in field reporter.

• Car park set the scene

• Forest Path setting characters relationship

• Begin to slowly introduce stranger occurrences

• 1st sighting

• Chase

• Final Encounter

With these scenes ideas filling in content into each scene. This was much more difficult then it was originally thought. Especially when you have to think about scene shots and other problems. So while it was the plan to to finish the script at this point it didn’t happen. It was decided from the beginning that putting a lot of work on the script would be a good idea. It was also a more time consuming phase and strips were constantly changed when Cory and I showed each other our versions.

 

Plans for next week:

The plans for the next week was finishing the script as well as location scouting.

 

Compare/contrast project

Select a work for comparison

The project Handsight was created by the artist Agnes Hegedus in 1990. This work consists of a dark room with a projection on the wall also located in the middle of the room is a transparent bowl and a hand held eye. By placing the eye in the bowl the user can explore the virtual environment projected on the wall by moving the eye. This project is meant to create is link between the physical world and the virtual world as told by a Handsight summary.

“The work creates a correlation of the physical world and the virtual world.”

(http://framework.v2.nl/archive/archive/leaf/other/.xslt/nodenr-155831)

The reason I have chosen this particular work is because it explores the virtual world and does it in a way that is different from the typical screen/keyboard/mouse interaction. By the user of the eye in a particular environment (that of the glass bowl) the user is exploring different interactions. This work is also immersing in the respect they have control of where they are going in the world. This work also has the potential to go to another level of immersion as well. What this project does as well is gives the user an opportunity to play in exploring the virtual world because there is a world to see as well as a different way of interaction makes the user more accepting of new technology and makes them think about how it could all work and also adds to the immersion factor of the project.

Project Links

http://framework.v2.nl/archive/archive/node/work/.xslt/nodenr-146808

http://framework.v2.nl/archive/archive/leaf/other/.xslt/nodenr-155831