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Feb 23 2012
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Approach: Can You Hang?

To follow up on my previous intent, I want design an interactive video program in which the user an manipulate pre-shot footage of a climber on a climbing wall. The idea is that you would designate a section of the wall as your “frame” with a reasonable amount of holds. You would have to then do the math and figure out each possible move within the designated route or path.

Once you had filmed each possible combination of moves, you would then cut the footage up into each individual move. The next part complicates things. In order for this project to work, I would have to design a computer program that would implement hidden buttons behind the footage representing each hold on the wall for the user to choose from. The program would have to recognize the click in relation to the footage required to represent that desired move.

This could be a useful interactive installation because, depending on the user, it could educate someone on the best way to accomplish a route, inspire someone to design a new route or simply button-clicking entertainment for someone stumbling around on a computer somewhere.

Feb 20 2012
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Approach: Movie Scene Redub

I based my approach from Anna Werner’s original intent of re-dubbing old films with new jargon and present day sayings. This approach will focus on one movie specifically as well as one specific aspect of the dialogue with in a certain scene. Anna’s idea spurred a memory of mine from when I was much younger. One of my favorite things to do was watch movies with my dad. The only problem was his taste in movies; needless to say I saw a few before I probably should have…(Silence of the Lambs, The Exorcist, Terminator, the list goes on…)

Anyways, one time in particular, we were watching ‘True Romance’ starring Christian Slater and Christopher Walken. There was one scene in which there was a large amount of violence and good bit of unsavory language used. This also happened to be the scene to which my mother walked into. Long story short, she lost her temper something fierce.

This memory brought forth the idea to re-dub the scene that got my dad into so much trouble back in the day. I want to remove all the curse words from the ‘Drexl Scene’ in True Romance and replace them with a comedic variable that best suits the given sentence. I think this would be interesting to see how it changes the mood of the scene as well as to see whether or not the scene can be carried out with any sort of new direction. There is no real political or moral motivation behind this project, simply a tribute to a man trying to show his son some fine cinema and the prices he paid for it. Below is the entire scene that will be manipulated.

Drexl Scene