My project concept
Now that I’m running on more than 3 hours of sleep I’ll try to explain what I want to do with my project. The idea is still a work in progress, but maybe it’ll expand a bit as I write this blog.
I suppose I’ll need to watch the entirety of the “Mother of All Demos” as a starting point. From there, I’ll pare it down to some of the key points and demonstrations of concepts that have survived to today, as well as some that are maybe beyond what we’re using today, which I could save for the end, as to close the video with some questions and suggestion of possibilites for the future. My hope is to use some video from the presentation, and use the audio as a voiceover for the whole video, ideally in such a way that it almost feels like the audio was made to match the video rather than the other way around. Again, what I have in mind is a bit like I Met the Walrus, only with a different visual style, with greater emphasis on a clean, “computer-generated” look created using a combination of 2D and 3D effects. My current concept for the opening of the video is to start with the setup of the video conferencing, but make it appear as though Engelbart and his coworker are conferencing each other using modern computer software with video conferencing capabilities. I could then expand on this through text (presumably part of an IM conversation within the conferencing program), which would gradually lead to an increasingly abstract, animation-based environment as the video progresses.
Oh, ‘on a side note,’ here is a word cloud of my blog thus far. I’m wondering if this means I should look into trying out some other superlatives. It makes me wonder what a word cloud of my speech would look like.
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