My summer Production Schedule can be found here.

What do you want? 

  • I want my guest to learn about someone, but not directly; rather, through objects. Redefine how people learn about others
  • I want there to be invisibility between the technology and the experience.
  • A powerful, earnest, sincere, thought-provoking experience.
  • I want to learn about my capabilities in creating stories and experiences
  • Show this off to others in the future

What excites you, what terrifies you?  

  • The actual building process
  • Tracking down my arifacts
  • Not achieving my desired effect. Coming up short Not finishing. Looking back at this project as a stain.
  • Getting stuck. Time.
  • The possibility of making something special that impacts people. The potential. This could be really meaningful and fun and imaginative
  • This feels like it can be the start of my life in storytelling

How did presenting your work feel? 

  • Slightly contrived, like I was trying to prove something. It should feel more natural and from the soul

What has changed since you last presented?

  • A lot. More focused, streamlined experience. Cut down certain elements and simplified
  • The story makes sense. The guest flow. The beats are coming together.

Who else might care about it?

  • Really anyone who is willing to play along and suspend their disbelief

What are you chasing?

  • Making myself and my parents proud.
  • A meaningful experience with the desired effect

  • KPIs:
  • Create a set of 10 criteria for yourself in a system of your choosing. 
  • Some possible formats: 
  • Things I want | Things I don’t want | Things I’m okay with
  • Things my thesis does for the world | Things my thesis does for me | Things my thesis does for [x audience] 
  • Ideas I explored | Things I made | Insights I gained

The story

The experience

The technology

The quality

The feeling during

The takeaway

The shortcomings

The passion & effort

The process

The conceptual foundation

 

Look at your rubric. Do any of your items have “key performance indicators?” i.e. – how do you actually measure that success? 

  • All of these have elements of KPIs
  • The main KPI can be measured in how much effort I put into it. And if my vision is met with the execution and desired outcome.
  • I measure my success on feedback; how people walk away from my projects
  • How proud and open I am to share it in the future.

It might not be something you can achieve by the end of the semester, but how could you measure it in the future? Write them out. 

  • A person is more aware of the things they own and how those things represent who they are
  • Walking away with disbelief, curious, wanting more
  • More aware of the things that other people collect
  • A willingness to share things and explore other’s things
  • It needs to be physicalized. I need to build something.
  • Showcase my prototype on my website and future employers. 
  • Looking back at this as the jumpstart when I become more established
  • A person walks away and realizes the passion and thought put into this.

 

Alternatively, what does it look like if a goal is totally fulfilled, somewhat fulfilled, and not fulfilled at all. 

  • Totally fulfilled: I fabricate a van with custom artifacts. There’s a cohesive story woven into the artifacts. The audio samples guide the user and the triggers add to the atmosphere nicely. The guest walks away with a new perspective on the value of things and curiosity of how they are defined by their things
  • Somewhat fulfilled: I fabricate the van. Everything above, but it’s less cohesive and fills a little too forced. The tech doesn’t work or add to the experience. The guest walks away confused, not sure what just happened. They forget about it shortly after.
  • Not fulfilled at all: I don’t fabricate. My thesis presentation is a deck of this idea but with nothing executed. That would suck..