Autobotography Intent—EricW
Time Experiment:
Summary:
A timeline video through time. A plugin will take a picture of you once in the morning and once at night at the same time for a set amount of time. After that time is up the photos will be compiled into a video so you can see how you looked on any given day.
Concept:
For this project, I will be developing a plugin for a computer where a there will be a set time each day over a set period of time where a photo will be taken via your webcam on your laptop or desktop. At the end of the cycle of time that the user determines a video will be compiled with all the photos where you can scrub through that video to a certain day or and see how you have changed or looked different in the past. This will benefit people looking to see how they have changed through their looks or their attitude on their facial expression. I see this project more of a way for a person to have an easy way to look back in time and see how their mood changes in the morning compared to night. I feel this is important because this gives a person a visual cue of how they look either in the morning and they can determine at that time if they like the person they see in the video. This option will be something that a person could post the video on social media to show their friends how much they have changed. This would be more for self-reflection where I feel sometimes people get caught up with their time. Now, this could be a way for people to stop and take a look back at themselves.For the budget on this project, I see a cost for the development of the plugin being in the $100 range for time I put into making the plugin. I estimate to take from 1-2 weeks to develop the plugin to a working model.
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Concept
1. The media being used is webcams being set up and different time intervals to take picture of the person being filmed.
2. The strategy being used here is the one to many because a webcam is being used to show a different side of a person.
3. An issue for this project would being the different types of photos that can be taken and running out of options at some point if you don’t find other ways to film someone.
4. I believe this will be an interesting project because it show a new way to film someone without making a whole video and just using pictures to do it.
Design
1. The design seems to be sound with the use of the webcam and the setup of how it each scene could go when being filmed.
2. People will be engaged with the different photos of a person at different times of the day which will show a new side of them.
Technical
1. The webcam used should work accordingly when it is setup to record the different moments in the required time.
2. The plugin seems to be the high cost item and everything else appears to be reasonable to not need as much money for the project and will be easier from that point on.
Audience
1. The audience that I believe this would be for is people who want to see a new side to a person and learn more about them.
2. The appeal would be the chance to see a side of someone that people have never seen and view the person being recorded at different moments of their day.
Creativity
1. The creators passion is to create another version of a person in a different way using a webcam to take pictures of the key moments of a person’s day instead of a video.
2. This is an original idea and gives people to a new way to use a webcam to record the moments of a person’s life.
I think this was a really cool idea. I like how you can see yourself when you get up in the morning and then what you look like later on in the night when go out. I liked how you can see your face expressions during the day through night. That is going to be a cool way to see how people change from day to night and also if the person does this everyday lets say for a year, it will be interesting to see how that person would change over a year.