For our final project presentation, Kat and I decided to follow some sort of narration throughout piece. We start off by being in a crowd of different people and the person suddenly receives very stalkerish text messages. Essentially, the goal is to find who the stalker is by clicking on other people’s faces to receive a limited amount of hints while the person keeps receiving texts. The story will also be divided in three parts, or “days” in which the viewer has to be able to find the stalker. At the end of the third day, however, the viewer is unable to find out who the stalker is and then the scene is changed.As it turns out, the whole scene was an imagination of a schizophrenic person who wakes up in an hospital bed with his psychiatrist telling him that he forgot to take his medicine.
We drew inspiration from the artists of Starry Night. In this piece, the viewer is supposed to click on what seem like stars in outer space, and then a specific email from the archive respective to the star pops up. Initially, we had a very vague idea of what our project should look like but we both agreed on the fact that it should include objects on the screen that when clicked, would become brighter. Now that we have a very good idea of the direction of this project, we want people’s faces to become brighter as they get clicked on for hints. Moreover, another artist that inspired us is a modern impressionist painter Lenoid Alfremov, whose almost overwhelmingly colorful and vivid images are something we wish to reproduce in our own way with the aid of sounds, text and images, creating the impressions memories are consisted of. We would like to adopt his use of colors, and bring it into the way we use these media.
For the project, we want to use the different types of mediums that were taught to us this semester to create the finish product. We want to incorporate the use of html, css and javascript, and the use of audio to give to give the viewer a memorable experience. In terms of interactivity, the viewers get to click on certain faces in order to get the hints provided, they will also get to choose the face of the character they want, even add a name of their own.