Concept:
Our final project is going to address depression. Currently two famous young Korean actresses both suicided because of depression, which largely shocks the public and further arouses the attention to this mental disease as well as social problem. What we want to do is to express our interpretation of depression through our project, calling for concerns and cares for such community rather than behave indifferently or disrespectfully.
Sources:
- “I Remember” by CLM BBDO, Werkstatt L’Atelier Interatif and Clement Tery
Link: http://i-remember.fr/en
This is the original resource that inspired us at the very first beginning. The webpage stores plenty of memories for those who has Alzheimer, who would gradually forget everything when time passes by. The whole page is well designed, fits in the theme greatly and utilizes various techniques to the expression. We then got a general feeling of what a complete project looks like, but how we’re going to develop our own project needs further brainstorming and designing, rather than just make a similar one as this.
- Guoran Mai, Selected Work
Link: https://www.kwokyinmak.com/
This is a portfolio of Kwok Yin Mak, a designer currently in New York. When we scroll the webpage, all the colors change from the black-and-white type to how they originally look. We were inspired by this effect because the change of colors sometimes also indicates different moods and even life attitudes. Therefore, this resource might be helpful for us to present life tracks of people with depression, which is quite related to the theme of our project.
Production:
As for the beginning, there might be an interaction part, which we haven’t come up yet, probably using HTML, CSS, JS as well as p5 animation to serve as the introduction of depression.
Later we’ll focus on one certain person with depression, depicting his or her whole life track from birth to being infected with depression, to struggling between the colorful outside world and the bleak inner space, to suffering from the pain of being alone, and finally to suicide. P5 technique will be used to express his or her inner world through the contrast between original and black-and-white type colors as well as other special effects. We haven’t decided whether realistic approaches would be used, such as images, videos, etc. Through such life track, what we want to call for is people’s better understanding of depression, more cares and respects of this special community.
Lastly, the focus will zoom out with the help of animation, making this certain person look like a small dot among numerous similar ones. In the larger picture, countless small dots with different brightness exist to interpret different life tracks of different sufferers. Some people choose to commit suicide like this one, their small dots become gray; Some people just got the disease, therefore the corresponding dots are relatively brighter but are becoming dimmer gradually.
Overall, the group of people with depression is really huge, and what we can do for them is really limited. But we still hope that people can do their best to offer help, or at least pay more attention to them rather than the contrary. Also, if time permits, we hope to make a message board where people can write their stories and experiences, and those who see this can leave a message below to express their blessings and encouragement. We hope that this webpage will eventually become a platform for depression patients to communicate with the outside world.
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