The Result

I go a 2:1 how cool

XxX

D day

Iv not put anything in my blog since April because I moved over to more technical things and so put my work into my whiterabit.co.uk site as a technical blog. I saw no point in repeating my self.

Lets catch up. We have had the show that was the Friday just gone. It was very good and fun. Hard work to put it up but it was good. Im going to take some pic's on Thu so I will add those when iv got a mo.

At this very point in time im sitting in the studio waiting for 2:00pm because this is the day I get the results of my whole 4 years of study.

Im so scared and really really dont want to see what I got but I do in the same moment. Iv been lissening to Pie Jesu over and over again to try and carm my self down and its sort of working.

The time is getting closer and closer tho and im not looking forward to it.

Talk later

XxX

Review Comments

• This is a good start to a project, but you must continue to question every decision to make sure that you create the effect that you want to. Keep pushing the work, there is still time to make major changes if necessary.

• What is the intention of the work? There is a difficult mix of simulation of a stalkers room, and theatrical performance of horror. Your intention is to make it theatrical, but there is a chance that it will just look muddled, and an awkward simulation. You really need to test how it all works together, and have other plans about howto use the elements you have made. Might the clouds and audio work better as a separate piece outside the room? How might they make the viewer feel?

• There is always a gap in this kind of work between what you intend, and how people read it. Its impossible to second guess this and you must try it all and test it on viewers in order to find out what effect it will have.

• What will the viewer understand when they go in the room. You want them to be thinking ‘this is a stalkers room’, so then how will they interpret the video and audio?

• The realism is often creepier because its possible. How do you make it clear that the melodramatic effects are aimed at being theatrical. It might be scarier without the melodrama. It is difficult to make decisions about this kind of stuff near the end because you become very attached to everything you’ve made. Remember we will mark everything that you have done, Including how you have made decisions.

• What other fake narrative techniques could you exploit? How can you improve the webdesign to make it more convincing as a celebrity site? (n.b. get rid of the red eye). How do you fake the life of the stalker? It is theatre, and you job is to flesh out their life. E.g. would they have an unofficial fan site, with postings from the stalker. Create his history as well as hers.

• Loook at other online fake narrative work like Online Caroline, on XPT.com – made by Tim Wright and Rob Bevan. They have alos done other sites that play with the online worlds and faking stories.

• There are many other places you could extend the fiction, perhaps in a viral way, or through wikipedia entries. How can you push it all much further?

• Use greasemonkey to fake the URL at the top of your Amazon site. Why is it a Jane Fonda book? It would be better to make it something relevant to your theme.

Up to date

Iv not been adding much to my blog these last few weeks in fact iv not added anything since the amy noakes shop. This is because I have been concentrating on my technical report and creating my project.

I have had another review the boards of which I will upload in the next post.

After the review, from the descussions I have decided to create an unofficial amy noakes site using Geocities. However I need a PC to be able to do this as the builder runs only on a PC not a Mac.

My audio system now works however the electronics part is haveing some hitches.

The video is done.

I am going to look around odd shops this easter holidays and get together a lode of things to go into the instalation.

Jen suggested testing out the instalation before the show however this could be tricky as I dont have a room to test it in. Im hopeing that after easter a door will have been placed on the projection space and black outs provided then I will set it up in there once I have my bits together.

White Rabbit

White Rabbit may refer to:

• White Rabbit Creamy Candy
• An internet urban legend/cult which portrays ""the White Rabbit"" as some sort of ineffable quantity/entity
• A fictional character appearing in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The story begins as Alice, out of curiosity, follows the White Rabbit down his rabbit hole.
• White Rabbit, a Spider-Man villain.
• The codename of F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas, an undercover British agent in Occupied France during World War II.
• White Rabbit is the title of one of the most popular songs by the American psychedelic rock group called Jefferson Airplane.It Is included in the album "Surrealistic pillow". The song includes several other references to characters in Lewis Carroll's tale, and has been covered more recently by bands such as Sanctuary, Collide, and the Blue Man Group.
• In the MMORPG Asheron's Call, the White Rabbit is a fearsome beast that drops the Orb of the Bunny Booty. Its level is 666. (This is an allusion to the Monty Python and the Holy Grail White Rabbit)
• Neo is told to "follow the white rabbit" in the science fiction film The Matrix.
• There is a reference to the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland in Madeleine L'Engle's novel "A Wrinkle in Time," in which Meg refers to a white-faced man in a dark suit as the white rabbit after he replies, "Oh, dear, I shall be late".
• Dennis Nedry uses the hidden command white.rabbit.obj to disable security in the novel and film Jurassic Park.
• Several breeds of domestic rabbit are sometimes or always white.

Amy Noakes Shop

Here are the meta tages for each images in the amy noakes shop

art, blue, brown, face, photography, style, artwork, original, colorful, design, fun, beautiful, stylish, graphic, ladies, woman, unique, gifts, tshirt, digital art

Amy Noakes Website

I have finished the amy noakes website www.amynoakes.co.uk

Iv added meta tags so the site should start being ranked by search engians. I also submited it to several engians inc google and yahoo.

I have also mocked up a fake amazon page as in the biography page it mentions her book. I desided to mock up an amazon page where people could buy the book. If they go to buy the book it will come up with Jane Fonder as it was the Jane Fonder page I took the code from.

I had to create a book cover for the amazone page as well as finishing of the synopsis.

The Amy website also has two wallpapers that I created that people can download and have on there computer.

Review Feedback

Comments

·       You are making really good progress and there is lots of potential in your ideas.
·       Be honest about what you are doing and why you are doing it.
·       Keep focused on why you really want to do this project.
·       You are aiming to create an atmosphere in this room, make sure that you don’t include too much.
·       You have lots of potential to get people interested in the project before the installation through the website, so that some visitors to the show will already feel that they are familiar with the people. 
·       Who is the stalker?
·       How much is this you exposing your dark side?
·       Look at the old technique of ‘Trashing’ – collecting rubbish that people leave out, like bank statements, letters etc. Having things like this in carefully labelled bags would add to the creepyness of the installation.
·       You might get more out of a private detective if you tell them what you are doing and ask them about what they do. They might be much happier to work for you if you are up front about it.
·       Look at Manu Luksh and ‘CCTV Fiction’
·       Look at a work by artist Janice Kerbel called ‘Bank Job’ where she makes intricate drawings to plan a bank robbery.
·      It might be useful to meet people in the University Forensic Science department.