After telling my thought in class to my group mates, they are interested in music as well (more than me). We preliminarily decided our theme of the project is how different versions of music apply on different actions/emotions. Sam will redo eight different genres of a song, which are piano, musical, action, rock, game, horror, rap and EDM. Those different genres represent different emotions, sad (piano), romantic (musical), dramatic (action), excited (rock), funny (game), scared (horror), relaxed (rap), and science-fictional I guess (EDM). And these feelings will be presented by Michelle, by doing the action of making breakfast. She will listen those musics and makes different reactions depending on the types of music. Finally I will make the web page through Korsakow. Each video would last for 45 sec. The good thing is, we quickly confirmed what we are going to do, as well as quickly assigned everyone’s role. For me, the hard thing is the use of Korsakow. I have tried it in practicing, but I could not export my work successfully… I think I need to ask Hannah for help. The main significance of our work is to figure out how the music impact audience’s emotions. If the vision does not have background music, it would be very dry, and audience can hardly interact with it.
Manovich’s reading (2001) indicates two key characteristics of online making, which would be modularity and variability. To achieve those functions, the main module would be the playing video, and we will make several thumbnails beside the main module. The thumbnails would be still images, which would be viewed as the screenshots of the visions (maybe the key facial expression of each video, for example excited or sad). In addition, we will use thumbnails as hyperlinks that as long as viewer click any of them, it would turn to a new interface, present the video of the selected versions of mood. It seems to be interactive as well because viewer can experience the same music as Michelle (performer) and give response.