Today we had a meeting with Trevor in order to discuss the current direction that the Night life project is currently taking basically giving him an overview of what we have done so far and out intent going forward.

In discussion he suggested that maybe a good route to go down would be to focus less on the Interactive installation portion of the project and instead shift the interaction more heavily towards the pre-production stage with our gathering of user-generated content.

Citing the work of Aaron Koblin, specifically his video tribute to Johnny Cash, he showed the potential that this method offered. In the piece, Koblin took the music video for Cash’s song ‘Ain’t No Grave’, and broke it down frame-by-frame. He then asked users to select a frame of the video and then to draw it in whatever style or way that they chose to. The video in question is viewable at the link below.

 http://www.thejohnnycashproject.com

As you can see the result is very impressive, literally each frame is a unique individuals contribution and they all combine to create an interesting animation collage. The project members present agreed that the effect created in Koblin’s work was very impressive and seeing it in action we have decided to go one step further with our asset collection stage, and possibly remove the installation portion.

We still need to work out specific details and will post them here once we are decided.