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'''Is it straight?, 2018'''

Experimental performance

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STxllFgLhbA&t=467s Performance video link]

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My inspiration of this project is from the movie Rashomon(1950), a Japanese film from a Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. I remember being surprised by how mysterious I got from this movie. After watching this movie since I was 20, I still find Rashomon to be a beautiful and interesting movie. The director used the quality of the cinema to examine the nature of truth and the darker side of human nature.

My inspiration for this project is from the movie Rashomon(1950), a Japanese film from a Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. I remember being surprised by how mysterious I got from this movie. After watching this movie since I was 20, I still find Rashomon to be a beautiful and interesting movie. The director used the quality of the cinema to examine the nature of truth and the darker side of human nature.

Rashomon is a story of telling a story of a crime which happened in a small village in Japan. The crime was a death of a samurai and in this movie, you will see 4 characters, a bandit, samurai’s wife, samurai ghost and a woodcutter, telling 4 different stories of the same event. The admitted that she was the one who killed the samurai while someone blamed others. Who would you believe? And who do you think was guilty and deserve to be executed?

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'''Concept development'''

This experimental project began with a question How could we trust what we see now on everyday life when ordinary people with mobile cameras could be like a powerful media house?

This experimental project began with a question How could we trust what we see now in everyday life when ordinary people with mobile cameras could be like a powerful media house?

While story of pictures or video could be distorted just a blink of an eye by just change its caption.

While a story of pictures or video could be distorted just a blink of an eye by just change its caption.

I started this experiment by telling my classmates that I was going to show them 3 different photos and told different ~~story~~ one photo by one photo. But actually what I did was I told contradictory versions of the same photo.

I started this experiment by telling my classmates that I was going to show them 3 different photos and told different stories one photo by one photo. But actually what I did was I told contradictory versions of the same photo.

[[Image:Wisanu m1.jpg|300px|thumb|left|My first time working as a model for IKEA Sweden. I was on the cover of its catalogue. It's so hard to get the job and I really proud of myself. ]]

[[Image:Wisanu m1.jpg|300px|thumb|left|I got this photo from IKEA Museum in Sweden in last Sep. They provided visitors a photoshoot set that you can be put on Its so-called catalogue. It was fo awsome.]]

[[Image:Wisanu m1.jpg|300px|thumb|left|It's so boring last night so I edited myself and put it in the IKEA catalogue cover.]]

~~[[Image:Wisanu m1.jpg|300px|thumb|left|My first time working as a model for IKEA Sweden. I was on the cover of its catalogue. It's so hard to get the job and I really proud of myself. ]]~~

[[Image:Wisanu m1.jpg|300px|thumb|left|I got this photo from IKEA Museum in Sweden in last Sep. They provided visitors a photoshoot set that you can be put on Its so-called catalogue. It was fo awsome.]]

~~[[Image:Wisanu m1.jpg|300px|thumb|left|It's so boring last night so I edited myself and put it in the IKEA catalogue cover.]]~~

After finished this experimental I found out that most of people allow truth to be inside a small frame of picture or video. We never known what is outside the frame or even what happened before or after recording. So I decided to create an experimental live performance where I invited audience to witness it from the beginning of the performance until the end.

~~'''My first intention'''~~

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After finished this experimental I found out that most of the people allow truth to be inside a small frame of picture or video. We never knew what is outside the frame or even what happened before or after recording. So I decided to create an experimental live performance where I invited audiences to witness it from the beginning of the performance until the end.

'''First intention'''

[[File:Picture1.png|400px|]]

I would like to show different perspectives on this storytelling to audiences. Therefore, there will be a 360-degree stage in the middle and 4 groups of seat organized in 4 directions. The performance will run exactly the same in four rounds. Audiences would be asked to rotate themselves to another direction. There will be a screen in each direction showing different story captions except the last direction where audiences will face the performance without any caption.

I have tried this interface with some of my friends, unfortunately, it turned out that audience didn’t want to be rotated to another direction too often.

'''The second idea''' Winterwerkschau Exhibition, February 2018

[[Image:isit4.png|300px|]][[Image:isit1.png|300px|]][[Image:isit2.png|300px|]][[Image:isit3.png|300px|]][[Image:P1254830.JPG|300px|]][[Image:Screen Shot 2561-04-01 at 3.44.05 AM.png|300px|]]

So I tried to minimize my first idea but still keeping the main message about examining the nature of truth and portray perspectives of human from a story of a girl frustrated on finding and building her truth.

Truth is something very subjective so in this performance, I intended to find some object that can represent the truth. After I had been searching for some time, I decided to represent different sizes of boxes as truth because to me, the truth is something very straight and precise in every way just so the box. The most important thing is when you stack different size of boxes up and put one edge together you will see how straight and precise the boxes are from one perspective, but from other perspectives, it will be like a mess just like the concept of truth and human perspective.

At first, I wanted the LED screen background to be just only white color. But while we were rehearsing I tried to look for interesting sounds to play along with the performance and after I watched the playback I found out that what was going on on the background LED screen was very interesting. It was the same context of frustrated on finding something, so I chose to do live google searching for truth along with the performance. The live searching had no plan and no keywords I just typed “truth” and then let Google take me to somewhere.

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'''Learning from this experimental project'''

- Wrapping boxes were something that I should not do in this performance as it was so distracting and can also give other meaning to audiences.

- Using only one actress was not strong enough to send the core message of this performance to audiences.

- The performance might look a bit too old fashion and need more interesting idea to add into the performance, for example, interesting technology like VR, movement tracking system etc. to make the statement of this performance stringer.

- I have to consider more about the quality for the video. At first, I have no idea that I can borrow a good quality camera from our facuty, so I have to use my low-quality one.

From all the idea I have been developing in this experimental project, I will keep it as a metaphor to develop it further in the future. As well as mistakes I have made, I would take it as a learning and adapt it to my next step.

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 '''Is it straight?, 2018'''
 Experimental performance
+[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STxllFgLhbA&t=467s Performance video link]
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 [[Image:Blogger-image--720816163.jpg|300px|]]
-My inspiration of this project is from the movie Rashomon(1950), a Japanese film from a Japanese director Akira Kurosawa.  I remember being surprised by how mysterious I got from this movie. After watching this movie since I was 20, I still find Rashomon to be a beautiful and interesting movie. The director used the quality of the cinema to examine the nature of truth and the darker side of human nature.
+My inspiration for this project is from the movie Rashomon(1950), a Japanese film from a Japanese director Akira Kurosawa.  I remember being surprised by how mysterious I got from this movie. After watching this movie since I was 20, I still find Rashomon to be a beautiful and interesting movie. The director used the quality of the cinema to examine the nature of truth and the darker side of human nature.
 Rashomon is a story of telling a story of a crime which happened in a small village in Japan. The crime was a death of a samurai and in this movie, you will see 4 characters, a bandit, samurai’s wife, samurai ghost and a woodcutter, telling 4 different stories of the same event. The admitted that she was the one who killed the samurai while someone blamed others. Who would you believe? And who do you think was guilty and deserve to be executed?
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 '''Concept development'''
-This experimental project began with a question How could we trust what we see now on everyday life when ordinary people with mobile cameras could be like a powerful media house?
+This experimental project began with a question How could we trust what we see now in everyday life when ordinary people with mobile cameras could be like a powerful media house?
-While story of pictures or video could be distorted just a blink of an eye by just change its caption.
+While a story of pictures or video could be distorted just a blink of an eye by just change its caption.
-I started this experiment by telling my classmates that I was going to show them 3 different photos and told different story one photo by one photo. But actually what I did was I told contradictory versions of the same photo.
+I started this experiment by telling my classmates that I was going to show them 3 different photos and told different stories one photo by one photo. But actually what I did was I told contradictory versions of the same photo.
+[[Image:Wisanu m1.jpg|300px|thumb|left|My first time working as a model for IKEA Sweden. I was on the cover of its catalogue.  It's so hard to get the job and I really proud of myself. ]]
+[[Image:Wisanu m1.jpg|300px|thumb|left|I got this photo from IKEA Museum in Sweden in last Sep. They provided visitors a photoshoot set that you can be put on Its so-called catalogue. It was fo awsome.]]
+[[Image:Wisanu m1.jpg|300px|thumb|left|It's so boring last night so I edited myself and put it in the IKEA catalogue cover.]]
-[[Image:Wisanu m1.jpg|300px|thumb|left|My first time working as a model for IKEA Sweden. I was on the cover of its catalogue.  It's so hard to get the job and I really proud of myself. ]]
-[[Image:Wisanu m1.jpg|300px|thumb|left|I got this photo from IKEA Museum in Sweden in last Sep. They provided visitors a photoshoot set that you can be put on Its so-called catalogue. It was fo awsome.]]
-[[Image:Wisanu m1.jpg|300px|thumb|left|It's so boring last night so I edited myself and put it in the IKEA catalogue cover.]]
-After finished this experimental I found out that most of people allow truth to be inside a small frame of picture or video. We never known what is outside the frame or even what happened before or after recording. So I decided to create an experimental live performance where I invited audience to witness it from the beginning of the performance until the end.
-'''My first intention'''
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+After finished this experimental I found out that most of the people allow truth to be inside a small frame of picture or video. We never knew what is outside the frame or even what happened before or after recording. So I decided to create an experimental live performance where I invited audiences to witness it from the beginning of the performance until the end.
+'''First intention'''
 [[File:Picture1.png|400px|]]
+I would like to show different perspectives on this storytelling to audiences. Therefore, there will be a 360-degree stage in the middle and 4 groups of seat organized in 4 directions. The performance will run exactly the same in four rounds. Audiences would be asked to rotate themselves to another direction. There will be a screen in each direction showing different story captions except the last direction where audiences will face the performance without any caption.
+I have tried this interface with some of my friends, unfortunately, it turned out that audience didn’t want to be rotated to another direction too often.
+'''The second idea''' Winterwerkschau Exhibition, February 2018
+[[Image:isit4.png|300px|]][[Image:isit1.png|300px|]][[Image:isit2.png|300px|]][[Image:isit3.png|300px|]][[Image:P1254830.JPG|300px|]][[Image:Screen Shot 2561-04-01 at 3.44.05 AM.png|300px|]]
+So I tried to minimize my first idea but still keeping the main message about examining the nature of truth and portray perspectives of human from a story of a girl frustrated on finding and building her truth.
+Truth is something very subjective so in this performance, I intended to find some object that can represent the truth. After I had been searching for some time, I decided to represent different sizes of boxes as truth because to me, the truth is something very straight and precise in every way just so the box. The most important thing is when you stack different size of boxes up and put one edge together you will see how straight and precise the boxes are from one perspective, but from other perspectives, it will be like a mess just like the concept of truth and human perspective.
+At first, I wanted the LED screen background to be just only white color. But while we were rehearsing I tried to look for interesting sounds to play along with the performance and after I watched the playback I found out that what was going on on the background LED screen was very interesting. It was the same context of frustrated on finding something, so I chose to do live google searching for truth along with the performance. The live searching had no plan and no keywords I just typed “truth” and then let Google take me to somewhere.
+----
+'''Learning from this experimental project'''
+-	Wrapping boxes were something that I should not do in this performance as it was so distracting and can also give other meaning to audiences.
+-	Using only one actress was not strong enough to send the core message of this performance to audiences.
+-	The performance might look a bit too old fashion and need more interesting idea to add into the performance, for example, interesting technology like VR, movement tracking system etc. to make the statement of this performance stringer.
+-       I have to consider more about the quality for the video. At first, I have no idea that I can borrow a good quality camera from our facuty, so I have to use my low-quality one.
+From all the idea I have been developing in this experimental project, I will keep it as a metaphor to develop it further in the future. As well as mistakes I have made, I would take it as a learning and adapt it to my next step.