Initial Final Project Thoughts

For the final project, Ben and I decided to work together since we live our daily lives together and go through many of our days together. We share three classes together, and those classes meet three times a week, excluding digital art, which is only two times. We decided we wanted to see how we affect each other’s work, and how that changes the outcome of most of everything we do this semester. We didn’t know what we wanted to do at first specifically, but decided a video would be a good direction, first of all because I’ve done a lot of Photoshop for the last projects, and because it would be the best way to convey how we effect each other. I can definitely say I see Ben’s influence in the things I do, and I think for him, visa versa. When you share Computer Science Engineering and Engineering together, it is harder to see the change that we affect on each other, but throwing Digital Art into the mix definitely brings out how much we influence each other. Our ideas bounce off each other, and often, are rebutted. This is due to our personalities, which I think are too similar to mesh in a peaceful way, but this changes things for the better for the most part. So for this project, we want to take our finished projects and reverse them into their beginning form, because I think it will be an interesting way to see how the final product begins, and will surprise viewers on how it started out in the beginning. Our first attempt at showing our influence together will be the building and destruction of our AEV. An AEV is an engineering class project that has been the main focus of the class for the past two months. Ben and I were tasked with building it, and both our influences went into creating and shaping its look and function. So our first video will be of building and destroying the AEV, and adding the reverse and forward aspect to it, making it hard to figure out which version is which. We’re hoping this makes it more captivating. In this post is two of the first clips we hope to include in the project, unedited and uncut, of both Ben and I. I recommend muting the video, the sounds are unrelated talk between my roommate, his friend, Ben, and I.