This group project is probably the one that I feel most comfortable doing. Usually the group project that I have done are much different than what I would have envision if doing an individual project. Yet for this time, I think the main difference is that I was lucky enough to be randomly placed into a group of cooperatived members, who are willing to all put efforts to get this thing settled with.
First, the idea is from the apocalypse story that was from the readings in previous weeks. We quickly decided this to be our background because, well, it is very easy and at the same time very inclusive to all different type of themes and ideas. We think of different kind of items that should be prototyped, and for example a watch that monitored people’s status, a sensor that attached to the brain, and some others, in the end we realized that many of our ideas connected with mental control and status monitoring, and thus we combined some of our ideas together, and created out a helmet that could do mental control, block certain part of one’s feeling in order for one to make diffcuit decisions. This also fits with the theme of zombie apocalypse, like in the story of Walking Dead there are many times when the team needs to kill some one of their team because he/she was infected by zombie virus.
During this process, each individual of us have a role in this performance. I am the script writer of this drama, the full script is attached here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wng6TmDsXArGsIHGceWDLhUC3F4wQzK5Lgo3arzO2B0/edit?usp=sharing
While writing the script, all of us in the group were giving insights on how this should play, and how the helmet should look. In the end of this post I will share a folder which contains all the image of us working and performing. I was focusing on the script, and the others where working on the helmet, since we come up with the idea that both Angel and Riley would have to wear this helmet, we also have to adjust the helmet size to fit both peoples’ head.
When someone was tired, then he/she would come to the google doc and fix/write the script with me, all of us change ideas, fixes the lines in the script so it could fit each individual’s tone.
Other team’s performance:
I think the team that perform the dream recorder is rather interesting. This is a machine that could be weared during the day when one has a dream in previous night, and he/she could recall what was in the dream, be emerged in the same feeling like he experience the same dream. This is somehow relatevent to the interactive freature in the fictional novel, like the room that could mimic the environment in the novel. Personally, I would wish things like this to be true. There are many times I feel in real life that there is a deja vu feeling, and I felt that I have seen this in my dream.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1USmdHCVNbd4yVUCQmVVKyewjdDcdKl-q?usp=sharing