Structure of the Piece
With the piece I will be trying to adapt the entire book/movie(1951) into a short virtual experience presenting the viewer with a recap of the entire movie with the use of a simplistic low poly art style.
Schell Games (2017) ‘I Expect You To Die’ Opening Credits [Video] Available online at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht1ZChKF4Ek
Through out the piece as well I will be keeping the viewer preoccupied with different models and sounds to keep them intrigued and keep them engaged with the parts that I want them to. I will be planning on doing this by using a variety of lights, sounds and colours.
The lights that I will add to the animation will consist of not only harsh lights that should draw the attention of the viewer by exaggerating a specific item within the scene, but I will also be using softer lights in parts where the scene encourages exploration and taking in your environment.
With the sounds, I will be adding different sounds within the animation to draw the attention of the viewer to different points of the scene. These sounds will be quick loud sounds that will stick out from the sombre music that will be playing in the background. These will be like this to attempt to perk the interest of the viewer and drag there attention to the next scene, and although it will be loud I will attempt to make sure it’s not too loud as I’m not planning on scaring the viewer only guide them.
Lastly the colours that I have chosen to use within the animation is a variety of greys, the only different colours being used to represent a specific mood within the scene or to drag the eyes as it stands out among the greys of everything else. This colour pallet is similar to that of sin city with its heavy reliance of monochromatic shades and only colouring items of importance.
I did think about adding both hands and a body into the animation to simulate that of the viewer but came to the conclusion that without either a full tracking system that simulates not only there hands but the rest of there body that it might be disconnecting to the viewer, definitely as during it, the viewer will be prompted to turn around. Though I believe adding either hands or a body into my animation would distract the viewer too much from the things that are happening around them, henceforth taking away from the experience that I’m trying to make.
The quotes that I’m planning on presenting within the animation itself consist of:
“Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if only I knew how to begin.” For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible. —Chapter 1, Down the Rabbit-Hole
It was all very well to say “Drink me,” but the wise little Alice was not going to do that in a hurry. “No, I’ll look first,” she said, “and see whether it’s marked ‘poison’ or not.” —Chapter 1, Down the Rabbit-Hole
“Who are you?” said the Caterpillar.
This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, “I—I hardly know, Sir, just at present—at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.”
“What do you mean by that?” said the Caterpillar, sternly. “Explain yourself!”
“I can’t explain myself, I’m afraid, Sir,” said Alice, “because I am not myself, you see.” —Chapter 5, Advice from a Caterpillar
“In that direction,” the Cat said, waving its right paw round, “lives a Hatter: and in that direction,” waving the other paw, “lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they’re both mad.”
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.
“You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.” —Chapter 6, Pig and Pepper
“Take some more tea,” the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
“I’ve had nothing yet,” Alice replied in an offended tone: “so I can’t take more.”
“You mean you can’t take less,” said the Hatter: “It’s very easy to take more than nothing.” —Chapter 7, A Mad Tea-Party
The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, began screaming “Off with her head! Off with—”
“Nonsense!” said Alice, very loudly and decidedly, and the Queen was silent. —Chapter 8, The Queen’s Croquet-Ground