Proj. 2

This project, however annoying probably yielded the best reaction from me once I was finished with it. There were a couple key concept that I included that were deliberate and I hoped achieved their goal. First off, to cure the boredom of the standard slide show, i staggered the images. I also knew i didnt want all the images to be shown at once, so i brought them in one at a time however i DID want the viewer to see the magnitude of the number of pictures so i left them all on the screen at once at the end of each slide so the viewer could see how many there were. The trick w/ the pictures was to make them small enough for one slide but big enough for people to take note of the places they were took. There were two parts to the visuals, the first concept was to see exactly how many cigarettes I was smoking, (hence showing them all at once) the second was to make a sort of time line depicting the scenes of my life through cigarettes. Being that I had a pretty good view of all the paths to my classes on their respected days i think this goal was also achieved.

Proyecto Uno

Now that I've performed project one, I am glad that I got to organize it by myself, it gave me the chance to enforce my own ideas. Crystal's comment about how the performance was closer to the original idea reminded me of this fact. This way I was allowed to play more with things like sound instead of worrying about getting my own idea across to the audience. What I found most interesting about my project visually was the play w/ the streetlights. Being the brightest bit of color in the projected backdrop, the light also illuminated the person who was standing in it just like a real streetlight would if someone was standing in it. It gave the backdrop a sort of 3D feeling due to the light that appeared to be shining over the people performing. Sound wise, I played with two forms of sound, the first being street noises such as cars and people, the second being rainfall. Because the scene included a hobo which would most likely be found in a more industrial area, I opted to use the street corner noises. When I played the rainfall noise, the scene seemed too peaceful for the type of scene I was trying to portray. Acting was fun as well, working with Kevin kind of allows for a little improv because we both know the idea, and changes can come from all sorts of different things, such as having to act at the front of the computer lab rather than an open area.