While I was doing my study 4,5 and major project, I have learnt how to think about inspiration from life or art works. Since I think the idea of a Art work is the mots important part. Before I start this Assignment I was having a really hard time to come up with an idea of my work. However, after I went to the ACMI I known that there are so many great ways to show interactive arts, because of that I have much more feeling of Interactive Arts than before. As my group work, study 4 and 5. My group members and I come up with that idea just because we think sometimes we talk too loud in the class and that may affect other students’ study so that we wanted to create a system which to remind people to be polite and gentle in the public. That is what I  have learnt from my life. When I was doing my Assignment 1, I was thinking about to make my work more fancy and big. But right now, I am thinking about the purpose of this work is more important than what it looks. So, while I was visiting the ACMI, I got an idea from the Time Slides which is a machine which 36 cameras made to catch an action when people move and make it stable. After seen that, I was thinking about the relation with actions and the time. This is what my major project idea comes from. My major project is aim to remain people take actions right now for work or study not for wasting time. Because in our daily life, we used to swipe our phones or doing nothing with our coming work, that is why I put a slow-motion window to shoot people which is also represents our life status. Further more, I put the time counter to represent the time is passing fast. I was quite satisfy with my two projects this time. I think the idea of those two work are better than what I did last time.

What I learnt so far about Max is keep becoming more and more. From this Assignment, I learnt how to use facial recognition technology, voice tools and live effects of the video which helps a art work working with out the instruction of the mouse or the keyboard. This helped me stand out of the thinking of system need to control by people. It could be “free”. Since I always think the Art work can’t work by itself. 

Right now, from all my 6 Max studies, I learnt how to find a way to think about interactive arts as well as get to know more about how to use Max. Firstly, the main idea or the purpose of one Art work is very important before create a new work. But I often feels hard to get the idea. Right now, I start to get those inspirations from other Art works or life. Furthermore, about how to use Max. I often got help from Camille since I still not so familiar with Max. However I always got ideas, I just don’t know hoe can I make it work. So far, I am satisfy with all of my works, even they are not that good. But I think I have put my effort on it. After class, I would do some practise some times. Technically, we have enter into a new section which use the facial recognition technology, voice tools and other toolset help our work become more interactive. During the group work each of them would try the best to show what they think and how much they have learnt and put them into the work. We shared opinions and creative thoughts. That was a great time to talk with group members. That would make me do more and think more. 

In the future studies, I think there is much more room I can do. I also would love to do more group works. Creative minds is the most important thing, so I hope I should get more new inspirations more music or video could be used in my future works as well as to make my work more meaningful, not just for fun. I wish I could do it by myself in my future study, rather than always rely on my teacher. 

As my major project, I got an idea from the Time Slides at ACMI. Based on the Time Slides, it was mainly about action and time. I thought I may do a study which remind people to catch up the time. Cause we always get tardiness with our work. So I did my major study for this purpose. I put a window which shows slow motion while people moving and a time counting system beside which runs faster than normal time counting. The window one, I was trying to show that we always do our work slowly and waste our time from doing nothing. But the time is passing faster than we think. So we have to catch up the time and don’t waste it from doing nothing. We should think about use our time properly and  efficiently. When I created this study, my teacher Camille helped me with the time counting system and I adjust the data of the time system while I looked at  the slow motion of the window. That’s all the thoughts of my work. 

About study 5, we did a lot improvement basis of study 4. Based on other classmates and Camille’s suggestions, we changed our emoji into awkward emoji. Cause when someone’s voice become louder people always get more awkward, not angry. Meanwhile, we added comments to explain how our study works. To make the system catch the voice faster and easier, we changed the date of the system to make it more sensitive. We also added two equal signs into the presentation mode to be more clear about how we wanted to represent. Overall, we wanted to show people throughing this study is we should be polite and gentle  in the public otherwise it would make people around you feel uncomfortable or awkward. We were keep switching the screen on and off to adjust the data of the camera system and also the volume system. We kept an eye of the changing of the volume while changing the data. Finally, we got some help from Camille and finished our study 5. I was satisfy with our group work. 

When my group members and I thinking about the study 4. We were thinking about ourselves first, cause sometimes we talk too loud in the class and that make other classmates may feel uncomfortable. So that we wanted to created a program that reminds people when they talk too loud at public. Then they may interact with each other. This study works, while people speak loudly that touches the “red line”. Meanwhile, the happy emoji will become into an angry emoji to remind audience that the voice is too loud. At the start of our work, we were trying to make the picture change when the voice changes but it was not so delicacy. But it was kind of boring so we asked Camille come and helped us. After that, we made the screen into 9 pieces that’s makes more fun with our work. The most difficult thing of our work was the sound sensing part. But Camille gave a lot help for us. So that was all about our study 4.