Performance of dynamic page, front and back, with selected song
Project Statement
The song that my partner and I selected reminded us of a journey of leaving and getting ready to discover the world ahead of them, while mine focused more on the acceptance from those you are leaving and finding what the world has to offer. My goal was to show a fluid movement of all of the pieces at once with one motion rather than having to use multiple tabs other than the background moving after the center piece rose to the top. I had hoped to find a way to create this movement with my own mechanism. The outcome of the project turned out very successful with the fluidity and the continuation of the center piece as the others stopped moving by using the pully mechanism that I had come up with. I believe that the project successfully captures how the song feels in that moment.
Process
View detailed project process at Dynamic Pages: Process
Reflection
I learned how to visualize a scene from music to be able to physically show what I am thinking of from a song, as well as how to create a pully mechanism that works smoothly with three pieces and can continue moving one piece alone. I learned how to make my ideas abstract with forms that are representational of other objects, although I could have made them more abstract. I overcame once again the difficulties of a partner that had constantly changed to different ideas for movements that did not correlate which made it hard to harmonize. I also had to overcome some issues with crafting that were difficult to make work when everything was put together as well as getting everything reset back to the starting position after the movement was complete. I discovered how to use pully systems and create tabs with sliders to lock the moving pieces in their slits to move in, as well as how to work around a moving object with a tab that needs to be in the same position, and finally creating backs to pins so that the string around them will not come off.