In Class – Tuesday, September 12, 2017
1.What kinds of explorations motivate your creative practice? What is the problem is that you are trying to solve?
Documenting locations and the memories that are held there is what I’m motivated to explore. The problem I’m trying to solve or bring to light is how our minds really work when we enter physical locations, but instead of it being invisible and only experienced by one person, it can be experienced by others and be something tangible that they can hold and see for themselves.
2.What conceptual, aesthetic, and technical questions drive this project as a whole?
Making it come across as realistic as possible. Aesthetic I want to feel very natural and not staged at all, but I’m also exploring a narrative so this may become difficult. I’m concerned about the depth perception and how realistic this will be.
3.What are the core uncertainties of your investigation? How can you find the answers to these uncertainties? What research sources are you using? Do you understand your domain? Do you know the history of it? Do you know the main thinkers in your domain?
I’m trying to understand if why I’m really doing this. Family drives a lot of my investigation, but it might be because of my desire to relive a memory one day when I’m unable to remember properly. I can’t identify or pin down the exact domains that are helping this project evolve, the newest domain that I’m interested in is “tracing” and family “trace.” I know of some main thinkers that I’ve interned with and have film production expereince, but I also know there are others that I haven’t found yet. I need to do more research on our psyche and how we remember, and also why families and people choose to remember? Why do we want to share our memories with others, even if they’ll never be able to truly understand and grasp the same exact feeling.
4.Are there key qualities that you would like your project to have, or that you’d like it’s user / audience to experience? Who is your user/interactor/audience?
I want it to feel like it’s their family or their story that they’re expereinceing. I want there to be an element that they feel they can identify with. In order to accomplish this, I’d like to possibly have four narratives, and while you watch each episode, the other characters may walk through the backround somehow. I’d alos like to play with color, maybe acertain character has a yellow raincoat, and the other has blue shoes… something that will help you identify and maybe has symbolism with the story.
- TITLE your project.
I don’t have a name yet, but below are some ideas I have these so far…Spatial Memory, Memory Space, Invisible Memories, Memory Trail, Overlapse, Overlap, Memorylapse…
- You should also attempt to answer this question: I am studying X because I want to find out
I am studying documentation and families because I want to find out how people remember relationships with loved ones and time together.
- What impact you want to project to have. What would your project change in the world if it was successful?
I want this to break ground on how we experience a story within a space. I want the film to overlay a real location so that people can watch it in a real life setting instead of at home. It would change how we perceive events all over the world and how we capture our individual memories. Instead of watching a news story, or a home video, you could go to the location and understand the scale and details much more clearly because it will look as if you were in that time and space where the story took place.
In Class – Prototype Development
This documentation can also be viewed in my notes for Inspiration for Week 3
On Tuesday during class I tried to prototype again by using a clear sheet of plastic on a window to draw upon. I’m still trying to focus on creating low res prototypes for my Augmented Reality idea, yet worried that I’m not moving fast enough. However, I thought that this resemebled a new way to test the idea. Similar to a transparency, when you layer over an image, it will project on the screen. AR works in a similar way but with the phone and I imagine it will also layer over real life. I wanted to draw upon what I saw outside and come up with some different versions. I also thought this might help me with understanding how difficult depth perception will be when using AR.
What I realized while doing this prototype was my interest in reflections was turning into something different. Instead of reflections, I think I’m more interested in the layering of space. I’m curious about the overlap of time and space along with the memories. While I was creating this prototype, I realized I was looking through a window, drawing windows, and noticed there was another window within window that was also showing me more windows. I felt like this was an analogy of how we work through our memories and how we all share memories in the same locations, but in different ways. I started thinking maybe my project should be called “Overlapse” playing with the idea of time and how were each over lapping one another. Where I saw this is the middle row of windows and it’s the last window on the far right.
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