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PITCHING OF PROJECTS ASSIGNMENT 3 PART 2

Now to narrow down to two projects:

Since I am more interested in the body this season, I will be working more Brainwave wonderland and Body language.

  1. Brainwave wonderland ( Telekinesis Wonderland)

This project would be exploring on controlling things with the mind. The installation will consist of doing several tasks with just the power of our minds. We could light up a room of even create a light show with our brainwaves.

WBS:

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network diagram:

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i am thinking of a budget of $5000

Timeline:

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This project is inspired by Star Wars and mutants that have telekinetic powers. This could explore the limits of the brain and what it can do, beyond controlling our own body.

2.Body Language

This project would be exploring on the sending of a hug over the internet. Using robots.

The budget that I might need is also around $5000 dollars to get the electronics and also the sensors for sensing touch.

I might need a team of 3,me plus a person who can do coding and a person who can do the electrical engineering to get the electronics wired up.

WBS:

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network diagram:

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i am thinking of a budget of $5000

Timeline:

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This project is inspired by the limits of technology and the internet. It questions if physical touch can exist in the world of the internet.

 

 

PITCHING OF PROJECTS ASSIGNMENT 3 PART 1 (add on)

Here are some more projects that I would like to pitch:

3.Body Language

This project would be exploring on the sending of a hug over the internet. Using robots.

The budget that I might need is maybe around $5000 dollars to get the electronics and also the sensors for sensing touch.

I might need a team of 3,me plus a person who can do coding and a person who can do the electrical engineering to get the electronics wired up.

Pros of the project: Fun and innovative and tries to question the position of the human touch in this world of electronics and data.

Cons: Might be a bit difficult to do if there is not enough research done in this area. Might get a bit too expensive.

4.  The world in one place. 

This project is inspired by Airbnb’s office.  It was voted to be one of the best place to work in in 2016.

I was really inspired by their layout of their office. Airbnb’s rooms are all inspired by listings on the platform to showcase the vast diversity of destinations on offer through the website. They have rooms of different themes, such as the Mumbai cafe room where it transports you to India in that space.

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The budget that I might need is maybe around $5 mil dollars to build everything. Ideally, it will be a great idea for universities to implement such study rooms with themes of different countries.

I might need a large team of people who are specialized in designing the whole structure, the interior design and also construction firms who are skilled in building the structure

Pros of the project: Fun and innovative, making the world a smaller place.

Cons: Expensive.

5.  Imaginarium 

Imagine a space where you can create whatever you want without limits.

This project is one which allows users to create objects of use or draw in 3D space , all in virtual reality.  You can do things like virtual pottery, design clothes and put it on a 3d model and view it from all directions.

The budget that I might need is maybe around  $10 000 for the equipment and the research that needs to be done .

I might need a  team of people who are specialized in coding for virtual reality, 3d modellers and testers to test the programme.

Pros of the project: Fun and innovative, making the world a smaller place.

Cons: Might be time consuming.

6.  Our face is data. 

This project is inspired by a Russian photography student that carried out an experiment to show how easy it is to identify complete strangers.

Twenty-one-year-old Egor Tsvetkov took photos of people in public places and then tracked them down on the Russian social media site VKontakte using a facial recognition app.

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You can see the project here .

I would like to explore the idea of how much we can learn about a person just from their face in this world of data and social networks.

The budget that I might need is maybe around  $8 000 for the research that needs to be done .

I might need a  team of people who are specialized in coding for facial recognition softwares and online profiling.

Pros of the project: Questions our relationship with the world in this age of social media and the issue of privacy.

Cons: Might not have so much research done in this area.

Pitching of Projects Assignment 3 Part 1

Here are some of the projects that I would like to pitch:

  1. Brainwave wonderland

This project would be exploring on controlling things with the mind. The installation will consist of doing several tasks with just the power of our minds. We could light up a room of even create a light show with our brainwaves.

The budget that I might need is maybe around $5000 dollars to get the electronics and also the gadget that detects brainwaves.

I might need a team of 3,me plus a person who can do coding and a person who can do the electrical engineering to get the electronics wired up.

Pros of the project: Fun and innovative and tries to push the limits of how biology and science can work together.

Cons: Might be a bit difficult to do if there is not enough research done in this area.Might get a bit too expensive.

2. VR paradise

This project would be exploring on a theme park that is made physically but having the whole place also existing in VR. It a fantastical place that exists in real life but it requires the magic of VR to bring it to life.

I will need a lot of money. Definately more than 1 million dollars to create a theme park.

I would need to hire a group to do a feasibility study. A feasibility study will take into account potential sites, your park concept, the local market and tourist market, and industry trends and local competition in order to estimate costs, revenues, and how many first-year guests you can expect. This last number is hugely important, as the number of first-year guests expected will determine the amount you need to spend to build a park that can accommodate them. Estimate too low, and my park will be overcrowded. Estimate too high, and my park will fail due to inability to recoup construction costs.

Before going to potential investors, I will need an attractive mock-up of my park that both features the attractions and takes into account zoning, safety, and traffic flow. Therefore, I would need help from a design firm in designing the theme park as it requires a variety of specialized skills from drawing to understanding ride engineering and safety to managing traffic flow.

Pros of the project: Fun, innovative and it is the first of it’s kind.

Cons: Very expensive. Need very very thorough planning.

Perfect Pitch Part 2

Idea 1(Individual project idea with ADM resources plus an equipment budget of max 500$, plus your own time and effort, over 1 year):

For the first idea, I would like to pitch the idea of creating music with heart beats.

Things that I would need : A heart tracker, a program that can translate the heart frequency to sound frequency, lights and smoke machine ( most of which can be found in school already).

I can get a fitbit that can track heart rates at a relatively cheap price. The budget of $500 should not be a problem to me.

The bulk of the time in this project should be spent on researching and tweaking with the translation of the frequencies.

Idea 2 (Individual project idea using any resources  up to a budget of 5 million, over 5 years):

Stage 1:I would want to be a travel consultant. I would go around the world to check out different places and come up with itineraries and reviews that will help others who would want to visit the place.

Stage 2: I would then set up a company and hire people who are adventurous and people with good taste so that they can be travel consultants too.

I would split the money:

1)Travel and accommodation

2) Pay for employees

3)Bills for Company Facilities

4)Marketing

5)Advertisements

Idea 3(Duo project idea using typical ADM resources with budget of max 500$, over 1 year):

I would suggest making an app that allows people to track one another when they can not find each other in a place.

Great to use on parents and children.

Most of the money would probably be spend on marketing and advertising since the cost of production for making a mobile app is not that much.

 

Project Pitch

I would like to pitch the following for my project:

1 . For the individual work: an installation that deals with creating a space for people to have an audio-visual sensory experience that takes them to another place.

For the pair work, I would like to create a system where artists can come together to share items with one another. kind of like the really free flea market. Where everything in the flea market is free.

Candice Ng

I was looking through Candice’s work and it was interesting to see how she makes use of technology to illustrate her concepts.

I will attempt to answer this question.

How does Candice Ng’s work contribute to the ongoing public discussions about identity, in the context of Singapore and South-East Asia?

I think Candice tries to question identity by amalgamating two very different elements together. One is a material which has a long history, ceramic and another, the RFID  which had been discovered in 1935 . It was interesting to see how her work explores identity in this digital age. The fusion of the old and the new

Boyhood vs Dog photography project

In this hyperessay, I will be comparing Boyhood the movie and a photography project  about dogs by Amanda Jones.

Boyhood is a 2014 American independent coming-of-age drama film, written and directed by Richard Linklater, and starring Patricia Arquette, Ellar Coltrane, Lorelei Linklater, and Ethan Hawke. Shot intermittently from 2002 to 2013, Boyhood depicts the childhood and adolescence of Mason Evans, Jr. (Coltrane) from ages six to eighteen as he grows up in Texas with divorced parents (Arquette and Hawke). Richard Linklater’s daughter Lorelei plays Mason’s sister, Samantha.

Boyhood’s direction was forged over 12 years. Production began in 2002 and finished in 2014, with Linklater’s goal to make a film about growing up. The project began without a completed script, with only basic plot points and the ending written initially. Linklater developed the script throughout production, writing the next year’s portion of the film after rewatching the previous year’s footage. He incorporated changes he saw in each actor into the script, while also allowing all major actors to participate in the writing process by incorporating their life experiences into their characters’ stories.

On the other hand, Amanda Jones has dedicated the past 20 years to an incredible photography project which aims to show just how fleeting the lives of our beloved pets are.

Amanda Jones began her photography career in 1992 after graduating with a degree in Cinema and Photography from Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY.

In 1994, Amanda began photographing dogs in Maine after her best friend brought home Ruby, a yellow Labrador Retriever puppy.

Ruby was Amanda’s first model and inspiration for pursuing a career working with dogs. Amanda has been photographing dogs and cats for clients across the United States ever since.

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It was interesting to note how she actually manage to keep in contact with the owners of the dogs to take their pictures again more than a decade later.

I think the differences in these two projects is that the scope of a movie is much bigger than the photography project. There are much more people and also money involved.  The budget for Boyhood was $4 million and the project by Jones is definitely not as high as that.  In addition the process of making a movie is much more extensive and tiresome than Jone’s project.

For the production of Boyhood, in May 2002, Linklater said that he would begin shooting an untitled film in his home city of Houston, Texas that summer. He planned to assemble the cast and crew for a few weeks’ filming annually for 12 years. He said: “I’ve long wanted to tell the story of a parent–child relationship that follows a boy from the first through the 12th grade and ends with him going off to college. But the dilemma is that kids change so much that it is impossible to cover that much ground. And I am totally ready to adapt the story to whatever he is going through.” IFC, the film’s distributor, committed to a film budget of US$200,000 per year, or $2.4 million over the 12-year shooting period.

Linklater hired the six-year-old Coltrane to play the boy.The cast could not sign contracts for the film due to the De Havilland Law, which makes it illegal to contract someone for more than seven years of work. Linklater told Hawke that he would have to finish the film if Linklater died.

Ellar Coltrane portrayed the film’s protagonist, Mason Jr.

Boyhood began filming without a completed script. Linklater had prepared each character’s basic plot points, and the ending—including the final shot—but otherwise wrote the script for the next year’s filming after rewatching the previous year’s footage, incorporating the changes he saw in each actor. All major actors participated in the writing process, contributing their life experiences; for example, Hawke’s character is based on his and Linklater’s fathers—both Texan insurance agents who divorced and remarried—and Arquette’s character is based on her mother, who resumed her education later in life and became a psychotherapist.

Despite the unconventional screenwriting process, Linklater stated that he had a general storyline in mind, and that the actors did not change the general direction of the story:

People think I asked Ellar, “What did you do in school the other day? Let’s make a scene about that!” That never happened. The time we spent together was me just gauging where he was at in his life—what his concerns were and what he was doing. Then I would think, maybe we could move the camping trip up, and we can do this or that.

Hawke said in 2013:

It’s Tolstoy-esque in scope. I thought Before Sunrise was the most unique thing I would ever be a part of, but Rick has engaged me in something even more strange. Doing a scene with a young boy at the age of seven when he talks about why do raccoons die, and at the age of 12 when he talks about video games, and 17 when he asks me about girls, and have it be the same actor—to watch his voice and body morph—it’s a little bit like time-lapse photography of a human being.

Although Linklater had referred to the project as Boyhood during the early years of production,in 2013 he settled on the title 12 Years, but was forced to rename it by the release of 12 Years a Slave in the same year. Hawke was amazed that the producers “still had their job” at the film’s completion, despite “(having) to hide a couple hundred thousand dollars a year for over a decade while we slowly made this movie.” Despite the risks, Linklater was allowed an unusual level of freedom with the production, never having to show IFC the work as it progressed.

Costume designer Kari Perkins had to review each year’s footage to ensure there were no accidental repetitions and to create a “flow” to the costumes.

It is pretty obvious that a lot has to go into planning for a movie as compared to a personal photography project about dogs.

Questions for KARST

  1. What was the hardest part in planning for the film?
  2. How long did it take to film?
  3. Did it go according to what was planned? If not, how did Vladimir go around it.

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I really liked how the title was very direct in telling viewers what it was about. However, the way that it was filmed was a very interesting way of filming documentary. I liked the parts where he overlayed the music of the boy singing with the sound of construction. It showed the tension between harmony and separation of the ground.