After our class discussion of the first project, I tried to jot down some ideas in my mind that I thought would best fit with what we were going to start doing in mad mapper. When we first projected an image onto that box last class, I immediately got the idea of Radica Cube World Blocks; a toy from at least a decade ago that I used to play with. Basically, they were mini blocks with a little animated stick figures inside of them. If you had two or more, you could combine them and watch as the stick figures interacted with each other through the boxes.
I thought it was a really cool concept that could translate well with what we are doing with mapping and decided to start brainstorming further with this idea. For my sketches, I mapped out a basic story line where a little video of myself would go through 4-5 boxes stacked up. 1-2 of them would be stacked up as the video progresses. Each box would have materialistic items inside and with each box, I would obtain more things. (i.e. guitar, couch, food, games, people, money, etc.). The final box would contain a video of the earth spinning around, but is not connected to the rest of the boxes therefor not obtainable by my character. No matter what I do to the box, I can’t break the wall to reach it, acting ultimately as a metaphor for greed and the idea that not everything is achievable no matter how bad someone wants it. Below are my sketches for this concept.
Timeline:
So I didn’t know what you meant by timeline, but I am going to take a guess and say you were talking about when and how everything will be put together. Here is what I have so far.
Saturday and Sunday (9/8,9/9): Start finding props and start filming
Monday, Tuesday (9/10/9/11): Design boxes in photoshop/illustrator and import them into madmapper
Wednesday, Thursday (9/12/9/13): Go into blackbox and try to set everything up and make any last minute changes.
Materials list:
- 6 cardboard boxes
- 5 different videos
- Materials inside boxes
- Couch
- Food
- Game oriented object (basketball, etc.)
- People to be filmed
- Money
- Green screen
- Blackbox