May 3-7, 2005
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| The Road to Obion | ||
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| Author(s): | Matt Slaybaugh | |
| Instructor: | Hechinger, Nancy Ault, Christopher Migliorelli, Frank |
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| Class: | Final Project Seminar (Wed.) Methods of Motion Interactive Design for Children |
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| URL: | http://f.acetio.us | |
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| An Online Animated Musical Adventure | ||
| Ray, an ordinary boy one day finds that his home has been destroyed by a giant machine and his Aunt Jenny is missing. He and his friend Paul follow the machine\'s footprints, looking for Jenny. As they travel the countryside, they discover that something has been changing the landscape, cutting down trees and polluting the river. Along the way, they meet Regina, Johnny valve, and Dr. Monday, who tells them that the devastation has been caused by Dr. Saturday\'s robots. The group finds their way to Dr Saturday\'s lab, and manages to stop the robots, but cannot prevent Dr. Saturday from fleeing. American civilization has been slowly degrading for a few hundred years as the decadence and lack of foresight in our time has resulted in a collapse of infrastructure. Dr. Saturday is one of seven engineers who understand 21st-century technology, while the rest of the population is nearly illiterate. His motivation is to rebuild the technical infrastructure of the country, but his methodology follows the same pattern of inadequate conservation of natural resources that got the country into the problem it is now. | ||
| Personal Statement: | To provide engaging and delightful entertainment for children 8 to 12 years old
To use this platform to subvert cultural stereotypes and negative values and support ideals of environmental conservation through storytelling and examples with implicit messages. To do so by distributing animated musical shorts via the Web | |