Bugis Meeting: 23rd May

Jerrome and I met to discuss on the project.

I shared with him the details of wednesday's FYP Mid-Point Assessment, such as the concern about:

1. What is the new media element?
2. What is the point we are trying to make (the message)
3. How can we achieve that message?

We brainstormed and thought about moving towards another direction in our FYP.

The results:

We went back to our previously brainstormed ideas and were inspired by comic strips.

Each comic strip panel showcases a scene in the comic. We thought about exploring how different the ending to the comic could be if characters took different choices to advance the story at each panel.

Here's what we came up with:

We thought of combining flash with video in our idea.

Title: The Office

Project Type: Video

What's so new media about it?: Inspired by the combination of hypertext fiction and comic strips. The video is about the happenings in an office. But at the conclusion of every scene in the video, the viewer chooses between two or three paths to advance the story. How much of the story the viewer decides to explore will affect the conclusion of the story. For example, if the viewer decides to end the story after going through 60% of the story, the main characters will end up with a bad ending. If the viewer goes through at least 80% of the story available, the characters will experience the normal ending. If the viewer painstakenly scours the office to reveal the whole plot, the characters will experience the "perfect", or best possible ending available to them.

Technical details: The scenes will be shot on video and edited into segments as in normal video-making. However, flash will be used to allow the viewer to make certain decisions based on what happens in the video. For example, in the point of view of a character who is on his way to his own office, but hears some noise from a supposedly empty office room, he can choose to investigate or ignore the noise. What he does affects how the story progresses.

Of course, to make it realistic to be completed by two of us, the entire story would take no longer than 10mins to complete. However, we estimate that the longest possible route available would take less than 20mins to complete.


~Windez & Jerrome

Upcoming Meetings!

Hi David,

Apologies for the long absence. From this friday onwards we will be stepping up our efforts.

Here are our upcoming meeting days and locations:

23 May Bugis National Library 10am -5pm

25 May Bugis National Library 10am -5pm

From next week onwards, we will be meeting every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.

Meeting minutes will be recorded and updated on the day the meeting is held.

Windez =)

FYP minutes

PODCAST COMPETITION?
*Conjunction with school
*Invite students to join in
*Top 3 will have their entries listed
*Specific content.
COMIC VIDEO?
*Story of a “CAT”
*Play through panels
*Panel = scene
NEW MEDIA MUSIC VIDEO
BLOG?
Incorporation of Video and Lights (perception of a guy and a girl?)
New Media Installation
*Space in Between
*1st person view
*Viewpoint of guy will see the gal
*Viewpoint of the gal will see the guy
*Installation
*Message of the art
*Where to store the installation?
*Documentation of the installation – Stage of the whole project
*How to convince the assessors
*Mock up for assessors
*Miniature of the whole thing
*Drawings
*Videos for the assessors to watch
*Processing and documentation (Important)
*Pictures of the restaurant
*Photoshop the images to the restaurant

Friday, 02 May 2008

Khian Wui~

Today I met Mark D'Oliveira. With reference to the FYP2 part of our talk, I was advised to create a weblog for the Final Year Project as soon as possible so here I am.