so for our project we are planning to have a small game similar to the game Talking Tom where there is a main character standing in a room and the user can interact with him by clicking several part of his body or choosing several activities for him to do.
i will act as the main character and we are planning to film the activities and the movements of the main character separately and when we trigger certain movement the website should display the corresponding video.
we will spend most of our time filming and we should focus on how to make the interaction between the main character and the user interesting rather than merely letting the user do whatever he/she want to the character. (maybe design some conversation like siri?)
i constantly hear single stories. especially those of the people in other provinces. for example, people from sichuan or chongqing must love spicy food, or people from the northeast china must have super high cold endurance, or people from inner mongolia ride horses everyday, and there are only dried grapes and roast mutton in xinjiang. those were very strong stereotypes that we use to have, and those were exactly how those provinces were depicted and dilivered to me when i was little. especially the provinces that has mainly people from ethnic minority groups if the spice endurance of sichuan people and cold endurance of northeast people has at least some evidences, the stories of inner mongolia and xinjiang are very disappointedly wrong.
but i think the only way to get rid of this kind of stereotype is to get involved in the groups which are “single storied”. if i have never been to xinjiang myself, i would still probably hold the view of a hot lifeless land with mud houses and people who always dance and sing, rather than knowing the other side of xinjiang which is full of grass and water, and even a little bit cold. i’m not having preference to either of them, i’m just saying that how much the single story are expanded when you actually experienced the culture you’ve “long heard”.
for this project my work was mainly collecting the sounds and make all the web elements on the page and make them look good (css).
firstly we thought of making a music selector and producer where we can first select some of the sounds from each floor and then go to a new page where there is a beat machine and use the sounds the user chose to make music.
then we find it impossible to transfer information from one page to another, so we decided to make each floor a beat machine. I actually made a touch pad (without functioning of course) of the beat machine.
the music pad that i made
but then we figured that the js coding for a beat machine is too hard for us and then we changed our minds again to make everything on one page, meanwhile we used the loops that were originally made rather than letting the user make them. so Thomas did some remixes on his computer and we put those loops on the page.
there is still something that we could do to make the page better. one is that we could make it so that when user tried to add some tracks, the track can be added without restarting the music. and also some of the sounds’ volume and tempo aren’t quite at place so we could do more editing on those sounds. and one little thing about the background that the bg pic just didn’t seem to fit the page and the size varied from computer to computer…… i thought it would be easy to solve but nothing seemed to word when i did my css……
she allows the reappropriaiton of her photo only in the theme of the rebellion in Nicaragua, and doesn’t allow any other interpretation of her work. in fact the author was doing something that is far away from the theme the photographer wanted to express, and has nothing to do with this or any other photos as well as whether they’re copyrighted.
after reading this article it became clearer to me that it has to be under the same range of area that we can talk about plagiarism. for example we have to be another academic article writer– and most probably is writing about the same or similar topic–to be a potential plagiarist to another article. same here, the photo and the drawing is conveying totally different things, so there was nothing as plagiarism happening here, and same is all the recreation of the drawing of Molotov Man.
there was a meme on the Chinese internet which says that any usage of Chinese language is a plagiarizing the Kang Xi Dictionary (the biggest chinese character dictionary ever). and also chairman mao once said that plagiarizing sometimes can be good bc you’ll learn from the thing you copied.
so who knows? maybe what i’m saying here in the post has already been said by someone else who also read this article? so i am — to some extent– plagiarizing.
but i do feel that there is a clear line between plagiarism in a narrow sense and its complementary set in plagiarism in a wide sense. or in other words, me copying someone else’s article as your graduation thesis must be different from me writing about plagiarism here.
