Project Wrapup

As I described in class, though I had a bit of a hangup with the audio, I'm so close to getting things close. Even in its partial state, I was surprised that it was still able to kind of work.

I'm going to continue to work, and if it is possible I would like to show at the wednesday showing. I took a small parts aproach, working on each section on there own. I would love to see all the parts working together, because I know the effect of the project will be much better.

Though I played partial parts of the four settings I made, I thought I'd include them here as well.



I think I remember saying during the prototype discussion that I described it as ambivalent... I realized that about a week later, what I really meant was ambiguous. There is a quality shared by each track, though I tried to give each a different type of coloration.

Things I would change if I were to do this again:

I would have started earlier with the media. I was way to cautious, I just had to go for it, and when I did I wasn't too disappointed, in fact I was quite happy with the audio

I would have got an actor. I'm not an actor, and I have essentially no dynamic range. I think it would have been more interesting for me as well, I can't help shake the narcissistic vibes.

I knew I could potentially have problems with the programming, and was happy to get the video pretty much exactly as I wanted. However, the audio...I didn't anticipate where I would have the difficulty with the getting the control values. I thought that the prototype had given me a good clue about what sort of difficulties I would have processor wise, but when I finally put everything together, problems popped up that I was sort of at a loss for.

Either way, I had fun putting this together, setting the sound environments, and brushing up on my max/msp jitter understanding. I am really close to setting up what I envisioned. Even with this early setup today, I still think the thing has some potential.