6º Could Change How You Experience a DVD.

The overarching concept for our group's 6º movie campaign was creating a reorientation of a natural or habitual process, that rewards the user for accepting that reorientation and following it to fruition. Visually we have fleshed this out to a broad compiled image of nature that is stained and covered in oil.  In each application there is then a moment in which the user can remove that oil to reveal a clean image underneath.

DVD Menu

6º Process

For the group project of rebranding the movie 6º Degrees Could Change the World (six degrees degrees), we have come up with the concept of reorienting the individual's process by providing interaction and a positive result for complying with its particular necessary adaptation.  The imagery includes a scene of nature that is covered in oil.  In each application there will be a moment in which the user can participate in removing this oil allowing to see what is underneath, while completing the task of interacting with the dvd cover, menu, and poster interface.

Below is the first iteration that gets closest to the stain and/or oil spillage that we were going for.

The rest are the tests up till the final images which is the direction we are moving forward with.

Whats A Poe Boy to do?

Before the next project progresses any further and I get myself buried again I want to do a quick post on the final images for the Edgar Allen Poe e-Book covers.  The presentation I felt was the best I've given... that may not be saying much in the grand scheme of presentations but I'll take it.  The images that I used for my slides I feel were also nice enough that it made me feel more confident to talk about them.  The main thing that I changed was the typography in The Cask of Amontillado.

The Day After Tomorrow... Is Saturday.

The day after tomorrow is technically an environmentalist movie, if I remember correctly.

Poe Covers from Sketch to Mid-completion

The following are the original sketches for the Edgar Allen Poe ebook covers.  The first one is the closest to the concept I end up moving forward with.  The concept being, a look at the area where the story specific partition pushes against the space behind it.

I later decided to add perspective for an extra dramatic flare, and worked with the typography within that perspective, integrating it into the walls and floor.  At the beginning the integration was not as specific to the story as it would later be, but the color red was an intentional move that I felt was appropriate to the murderous theme that the three stories embody.

Seven Virtue Site.

http://design.kcai.edu/marmstrong/index.html

There it is…

Jim Croce Progress

As of now I have the overall warm and quiet mood that I believe works well with Jim Croce's persona.  The headless body of Croce is sending off all the wrong signals so I will have to edit that as well as the overly neutral type choice.  The time in a bottle reference is now finally under control since I've been more selective with what I put into the composition.

Thirty-seven Years Dead.

     I've had a really hard time choosing my dead person to explore (that sounds creepy).  Maybe I've been just putting too much thought into the next phase of the project, but I've finally found who I'd like to go with.  While slightly morbid, I knew that many interesting people have died in plane crashes, so I actually did a search on people who died in plane crashes prior to 1984.  The list was very long and I didn't know any of the names except for a handful of musicians.  Thats when I hit Jim Croce.  Recognizing the name I looked him up to confirm who I thought he was.  I can say honestly that all of that listening to oldies music as a kid is finally paying off.  Granted I don't know many of his lesser played songs, but singles like Bad, Bad Leroy Brown, You Don't Mess Around With Jim, Time in a Bottle, and Operator are still classics in my book.

     James Joseph Croce was born January 10, 1943 to Jim (Sr.) and Flora Croce in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.  His early career consisted mostly of playing at parties with a number of small bands until he met his wife and they performed together performing blues, country, rock and roll, and folk.


     In the 1970s Jim experienced most of his success when pianist/guitar player and singer /songwriter Maury Muehleisen backed him up playing lead guitar for his feel good, down to earth, all American music.


     At the age of thirty, Croce died in a plane crash on September 20, 1973 along with Muehleisen and several others.  He was flying on a commercial flight between concerts and just before his last single was released.


Quotes-


"If I had time in a bottle,
If words could make wishes come true,
I'd save everyday for eternity passes,
And then I would spend them with you."


"I was searching all the time for something that I'd never lost or left behind."


"I've overcome the blow, I've learned to take it well. I only wish my words could just convince myself that it just wasn't real. But that's not the way it feels."