Installation

The main concept behind the video is to disorient the audience and evoke some sort of reaction out of them. When I thought of how to do this, I immediately thought of the Jordan Belson films that Josh showed us in class and how they made me feel. I want to recreate that with After Effects, but I also want to channel in some datamoshing to further disorient the viewers. 

The datamoshes would involve textures that start out similar to the cloudy atmosphere of the Belson-esque sequence and then evolve into more rough and dirty textures while the soundtrack becomes more frantic and the performers bring out pots and pans to bang. This idea was brought up by James, but at the beginning of the video after everyone has been administered their drugs, we would have a short 20-30 second swirly intro (the type that once you're done staring at it your vision becomes blurry and morphed) with melodic music. I liked this idea since it would get the audience into the right frame of mind for the rest of the video. After the most frantic part of the presentation, I want the camera that was filming the viewers' reactions to be projected up on screen. Hopefully that will bring things full circle and emphasize the demonstration's effects on the audience. 

I'm mostly concerned about the technical aspects like the camera filming the audience's reaction getting projected after, and if the audience will have a good reaction. I'm also concerned about not getting the right look for the video, since datamoshing can be very finicky and doesn't always come out the way you envision it. The time frame is also a big factor, since I won't be seeing any of my group from Tuesday night until the afternoon of the showing, there's not as much time to work with them as I thought I'd have. It is a little stressful, especially with things in other classes going on at the same time so this will be a big challenge, but I have high hopes that everything will work out.