Perspectives of Reality

Here the objective is to use dark humour to give an objective awareness of alternative facets to the objective world through a video and online piece developed from:

- Questions compiled that are based on theme of our perspective of reality - a simple questionnaire is filled by around 20 people
- Filming different people for 2-3 minutes and taking their responses to questions (in their environments to avoid people not showing at set location and times)
- Setting up group conversations based on topics like alien existence, acid trips, dreams, cloning, and what exists outside the universe
- Recordings will be on paper, though audio and video recordings and reconstructed in Flash and 3D animations
- Now the idea is to roughly storyboard and develop a linked screen (extract the images from the real environment and stick them onto a fantasy environment background) to tell a story of man's endeavour to understand himself and the universe around him.
- Create humour through the linking of responses, sounds and imagery
- Have this change and alter by using selection tools on a DVD or Web Site. An example would be a three way conversation where the user has the option of shutting someone up because they are annoying. If this is the case then the person will shrug shoulders and automatically leave the screen.

At its simplest level the perspectives could be edited and composited into a short film and played in a linear manner. A simple Website implementation would use video and audio clips that appear randomly rather than having directed control by the user. Many experiments with structure, sequence and screen layout would be needed before the desired effect is achieved.