Initial Ideas
Initially, coming up with a project theme was a bit difficult, last week I was leaning more towards ‘attention span’ as a theme. Specifically, how technology has affected it and how social media has trained it to be shorter. Despite my interest in this theme, I felt stuck when coming up with ideas I liked to express. So, I found a theme that was a better fit for me: ‘chunking and perception’ – I defined this theme as ‘how breaking things into smaller pieces can shape and mould one’s perception.’
Collaboration
Before focusing on our own ideas as a class, we took part in another mind-mapping activity, this time, however, we used a one-word prompt instead of images. The prompt was ‘cemetery’, and this is what we came up with ↓
Some of our ideas ↓
- Pokemon Go Cemetery edition
- Model cemetery
- Candle that doesn’t go out
- Immortal gravestones
- Short zombie film
- Moving statues
- Chess set of gravestones
- Collectable gravestones
Using the same method, we had to develop our themes and collaboratively add ideas to each other’s mind maps.
This is mine ↓
Of all of these ideas, there were three that stuck out to me, and those were ↓
- ‘A game where players are gradually given bits of information’
- ‘Image breakdowns’
- ‘Breaking down classic horror images into ideas and roots’
Taking pieces of these ideas and expanding on them is my initial idea and approach to my project. ↓
For this project, I want to create a small game that feeds the viewer/player pieces of information that lead them to an incorrect conclusion. They may be given information in the form of actions or visual expression e.g. animation. These pieces of information should lead them to think one thing when in fact they should think another. For example, based on simple instructions a viewer could be led to believe that they are drawing a set of random rectangles when in fact those rectangles when put together (or seen as a whole) create an image of skyscrapers. The overall point of this project will be to show how perceptions can be formed when given information in small chunks and not as a whole. Not unlike how pre-conceived notions are formed based on rumours.