Assignment 4 – research project
The Most North Place is an HTML5 STIES, it can create a truly immersive experience on both desktop and mobile platforms. The web documentary follows the true story of an event in 1953 Northern Greenland that saw an entire Inuit community uprooted by the U.S Army and relocated 67 miles North in just 4 days. The site of the project is a short web documentary chronicling the memories of those four days, of the people, the places, and the atmosphere. Collaborating with Anrick Bregman– who documented and wrote the story with Nicole Paglia and Ruben Feurer – a designer of unparalleled talent and UNIT9.
The scenery and meaning of this work made me think of our work. Although there is a linear story in Andrick’s work, however, this does not affect the interaction between the audience and the work itself. In this web documentary, the site leads visitors through a multi-sensory experience that utilizes a composed soundtrack and ambient sounds for each chapter of the story. The dreamlike transitions and ethereal typography help to further the immersive nature of the site. It made me immersed in the work and saw the scene that I couldn’t really observe in my daily life.
Our work is also to discover and explore the pattern and flow through a natural environment. In Andrick’s project, the name of his work has clearly explained what his project is about, and when I continue watched it, each small-scale video has a short explanation of the work. When I was experiencing the project, there has one video that has winds going through a surface with the audio. It works for me to actually feel the place that he is shooting. The quality of this whole project inspired me to think about our project. Comparing with last assignment, I try to more focus on the quality of each small-scale media piece. Moreover, we decided to name our project : Place: Pattern & Flow. The differences between our project and his work is that our work uses the hand movements and the patterns in the landscapes to allow the audience to interact with the natural scenery. When we are showing people the still images landscapes with audios, which makes people deepen the interaction with the environment itself. The multi types media in our work allow the audience guess what happened behind the static pictures in a certain environment. We are not telling people what we want to tell them, we involve them to tell something(feeling, meaning..) to us. And I think in this way, we achieve our project as an interactive web documentary.
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