my contribution of week 7 (Interaction design + update storyboard)

Interaction design

The installation starts when the user/ audience see the soft toy that will be tied at the stair holder. If the user touch the soft toys, it will trigger the sound that been set in the software. After the soft toys, when the users start to walk on the stairway, the webcam will detect movement and it will trigger sound and projection that will project image/ scene from horror movie on the wall. Next, the user will hear sound without any image will pop up. On the 1^st floor, there will be webcam to detect the movement and when it do, it will play sound and projection play the scene from horror movie on the wall next to the door. When the users continue walking toward 2^nd floor, the users will hear sound because of the webcam detect movement. Then, when they continue walking, they will see on the 3^rd platform a soft toy on the lamp. However, the lamp will be light up because of the webcam detect the movement. The last interactive is when the user finally arrive at the 2^nd floor, the camera will detect movement and play the sound that been set in the software.

update storyboard

my contribution of week 6(storyboard)

in this storyboard, i explain the detail about our installation. it is easier for us to refer when we want to do the installation later.

my contribution of week 5 (layout)

my contribution of week 5 (equipment, budget and quantity)

my contribution of week 5 (gannt chart)

my contribution of week 4(Research on media that we want to use)

i start my research by watching horror movie and take note on the sound when there horror scene. most of the scene in the movie, there a lot of surprise element in it that the audience feel more horror while watching it. the background sound like piano also play an important role to make create horror ambiance sound.

this a few of sound that we might use in the installation
-whispering voice
-foot step
-screaming
-children laughing
-sound clip from The Ring movie
-sound of crack door
-man laughing

my contribution of week 3(Research, data collection, facts finding)

Insecure feeling leads to fear

You might get scared in the dark for some of these same reasons. You might be afraid that you will trip and fall and get hurt because you can't see where you are going. You might be afraid that something you can't see will jump out and startle you. It might just be fear of the unknown. It could be a combination of things. When you in dark, your ears might get a little bit more sensitive towards the surrounding, a normal sound such as aircond blow might be a different sound when you in dark and feel scared. However, this feeling not just happen when you in dark, it can be at anytime. This feeling can be trigger when you feel insecure out of nowhere. As soon as you are in the stage where you feel insecure, the feeling such as fear, scary, horror will appear automatically.

Base on this article,

“It's dark out, and you're home alone. The house is quiet other than the sound of the show you're watching on TV. You see it and hear it at the same time: The front door is suddenly thrown against the door frame.

Your breathing speeds up. Your heart races. Your muscles tighten.

A split second later, you know it's the wind. No one is trying to get into your home.

For a split second, you were so afraid that you reacted as if your life were in danger, your body initiating the fight-or-flight response that is critical to any animal's survival. But really, there was no danger at all”.

In this article, it shows that you afraid, you might jump to the conclusion that something in your house. This is happen because of most of the horror movies these days, there a lot of scene where the ghost will appear when the door was shut suddenly. This kind of situation is registered in our mind. However, not all people might jump to the same conclusion that there ghost of in their house; they might be scared if someone like a thief enters their house. The scared or fear feeling come when you feel insecure with something that unusual with your daily life routine.

Some people might get easily scared because of they have been seen, heard or otherwise experience something that frightening. It is the feeling one gets after coming to an awful realization or experiencing a deeply unpleasant occurrence. When they enter into the situation that same with their experience, it is easily for them to feel insecure. They will start to imagine thing that they seen or think there is something that they should be scare off.

Some of experience that most people scared of the dark is because watching horror movies. In most horror movie, the settings for the ghost or unusual things come out during night or in the dark. When you in the dark, you will imagine yourself like in the movie. Thinking that something will happen, such as a screaming from out of nowhere or a figure that you see at the corner of your eyes. This will lead to insecure feeling. You also might create an illusion when you in the dark base on the horror movie you watch.

For the conclusion, the fear, horror, scared feeling come from insecure feeling. You might feel the insecure feeling when you in dark or out of nowhere you hear loud noise or seeing thing that unusual.

references:

http://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/other-emotions/fear.htm

http://www.nativeremedies.com/ailment/overcoming-fears-info.html

http://www.google.com.my/search?hl=en&defl=en&q=define:fear&sa=X&ei=eLqQTeHXNYy6vwP01sijDQ&sqi=2&ved=0CB0QkAE

http://www.fangoria.com/index.php?id=2720:what-is-scary-filmmaker-has-lots-of-answers&option=com_content&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=167

http://people.howstuffworks.com/scared-of-dark.htm