final video

i have developed my concepts of remapping the space into another environment into taking away the control of understanding a space that mapping is intended to achieve. the hallway now ends in a flickering changing growth of shadows, threatening the space but not understandable, i have also added creatures into the space and referenced my research and ideas on media remapping through creating the creatures out of carebears. the video has been flipped horizontaly so it now appears to mirror the space the viewer is occupying. overall the video does what i wanted the project to do, it takes away control by remapping the viewers environment, it brings the dark mapped over places into their immediate space, the actual video work has been created out of many, many layers created in illustrator, then brought into after effects and opacity, blurs and layer effects added along with some parts retouched in photoshop as well. i would like to spend more time on this and would love to have many different looks to the remappings, i would also like to have more than one space remapped, or one space remapped from different perspectives.

development -

the core of my project is remapping the space in way that references the dark places on the map and the fear of the unknown, mapping over a space and control.

by changing the space the viewer is in and presenting it to them while they are in the space takes away the control that they have over the space, this is a reversal of mapping, breaking down the control and understanding of a space. the fear of the unknown - here be monsters - the night, the dark where monsters stalk.

http://www.geekologie.com/mt/mt-search.cgi?tag=mirror&blog_id=1

experimental storyboard








should i change the space to a completely different one?

the space needs to retain features of the original even if it does, the viewer needs to be placed in two spaces at once and if the shown environment is a different one then that effect will be lost. does there need to be a new environment at all however, or just the possibility of one? this project is also exploring that dark place on the map and the fear of the unknown and the need to control it. the unknown being the key word here, on movies like Alien the monster is most effective when you cant see it. the screening needs to be obvious that is video as well.

concept environment image

dracula

vampire mythology exists in almost every culture in the world, the night stalking, blood drinking, immortal undead. they have been the focus of scary stories for hundreds of years and still today hold us in fear as you can see by the number of horror movies featuring them, however today the vampire is often admired, even romanticized. the vampire has gone from being a terror in the night to the host of a children's t.v show.









count von count - seasame street


how do we map over the unknown?

by changing the perception of it to one we can control. today's way of controlling perception is definitely through media, media forces a perspective on us much the same way as mapping forces one perspective of a space.