Moreee braaaains!

For the multimedia project we have the idea of making a game, not a typical high score wins sort of game but a simple fun one, there will be no winners or losers, it will just be a way to pass the time or distract your mind for a bit, the inspiration for this came with fly guy a free game that you can play online whenever you want to, on this game the guy jumps and starts flying to encounter all sorts of characters and situations on the process of going from the sky to space then sea and finally he ends up in a beach all while interacting with every random character he meets in the process.

This is what we want to do, because there is no right or wrong, no logic to any of it, its just pure and simple fun, but to make it even more random we wish to make it with a zombie theme that’s why this blog is called more brains in our game there will be brains as well as other characters making our zombie do different stuff every time he gets one, it can go from happy dancing to killing an innocent lady to eat her brain, or maybe not so expected zombie stuff maybe reading the news paper or fishing, we think that the fact that it is a zombie allows the character to get away with more, there for we have an endless list of possibilities for him to do, so the game will be cute, fun and distressful in a very dark and twisted sort of way.

Here is the link to our inspiration game fly guy hope you have as much fun playing as we did, don’t forget to rock with the alien guy.

http://www.trevorvanmeter.com/flyguy/

Natasha Tsakos' multimedia theatrical adventure

Natasha Tsakos created the play named Up Wake in this play she doesn’t speak or interact with any other actors instead she created a multimedia based experience, and her movements synchronized with the screens, the lights, etc. create a 3D effect, I really think is a shame I didn’t know about this play earlier because I really would have liked to be able to experience it.

In the video she explains how theater makes everyone come together and I think it’s admirable the way she pushed her limits and her self to make every single person on the audience have the same emotions and feelings and really come together with this unique method. She also pointed how technology is our instrument and I think she was able to use it in a very intelligent and creative way in order to accomplish what she did, to make her play so simple yet remarkable in every good way is no easy task in this era were everybody is trying to have the latest and the greatest.

Finally I liked how she ends the speech saying that we are on era were communication, connection and creative collaboration is possible and invites us to revolutionize the way we think, I think in this very simple words she explained all the essence of the play and made me want to know more about it.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/natasha_tsakos_multimedia_theatrical_adventure.html

A Conversation with Martin Scorsese: The Importance of Visual Literacy

I really enjoyed hearing the perspectives of the director Martin Scorsese in this video he has a lot of interesting points, it is also good to know what somebody who has dedicated his whole life to the art of making movies has to say about all this things. For example there is a part were he is talking about the tools he uses and how this tools become part of a vocabulary, I think this is a very interesting thing because I never got to thinking how my mind was being told to look here or there whenever I’m watching a video and how all of this details only work together to transmit the message that the director wants to transmit.

The part about how ideas and emotions are expressed in visual form in a video or film was also very interested but I was a bit disappointed that he ended the sentence with “video or film” I know on this video he was talking specifically about that, but I think this applies to an endless list of visual art, photography, dance, painting, graphic design just to name a few, even interior design where every item is put on a specific place to make the room transmit a certain feeling.

He also spoke about how is our responsibility to tell the story and then said something about one of his films, that he knew that could not be shown on tv because it was not for kids and how he didn’t want it to be shown on tv because the film would have been edited to the point that he could not care less about it, I respect this a lot because I think is very important to know who your work is for and what your work is and respect it by not letting it be mess with because somebody doesn’t like it or just for showing it some wear.

Finally I also enjoyed the part about training the eye, that is not about taking or writing notes and memorizing all the films is about to looking at a film and know what that represents.

http://www.edutopia.org/conversation-martin-scorsese

Geri's Game

Geri’s game is a Pixar Animation Studios short film that I find very interesting because first of all its very obvious that the animations is very well done, but that is no surprise since it was made by Pixar, what I really like about this is how they were able to turn something increasable sad into a fun thing to watch, the short film is about a lonely old man that has no other option but to play chess with him self and even looks a bit crazy, I don’t think i know any person who would think that general idea is fun or funny but Pixar managed set the mood by using warm colors and showing certain emotions in the character, that you actually enjoy watching this and even laugh about it.

http://www.kidstube.com/play.php?vid=17781