Potato Eaters

Progress of FINAL version

Latest version from Dicky! - 9 November
Latest version from Dicky! - 8 November
Latest version from Dicky! - 7 November

Action list

Dicky: Wiki page done
Tim: Send CD with graphics,sound to Dicky, or attach zip to this page. done
Tim: Construct movie with lamp light. Moving up/down/left/rigth slowly. done
Daniel/Tim: Add changes to wiki regarding interaction rules, chosen effects etc. done
Dicky: Skeleton done
Rabiaa: Add sound interaction.done
All: Review version1 done
Tim: Mail through text positions done
Dicky: Incorporate feedback pending
Melanie: Add English texts (new page?) Edit texts down to shorter versions pending
Tim: Can you make new (detailed) versions of the dots in trace the lines pending

Feedback Version 1

Trace the Lines

because this is such an important part of the experience. This is the moment to get the user from the fast internet-world into a meditative, inner world mood, and you benefit from that in the whole experience.

I think the atmosphere can and must be far more mysterious....!

these are my ideas on how to do that, but of course tim and yourself are the experts:

the dots should not have edges, more oval shape, with unclear outlines they can be less well visible sometimes not at all, you see just a few dots lightning up; moves must be slower, so there's no flickering neither in the background nor in dots, just slight and smooth changes in the visibility, everything rrrealllyy sslllllllooooowww. I think to literally have to follow a line, is too static. You see only a few dots, and when you've reached these, other ones start to show. there can be more coincidence, spaces between dots can vary, sometimes you have to go back a little because you missed part of the line (because it just wasn't there before)

I like the slowness of the mouse!

It's nice that some dots go out of the picture, but most of the time I think they must get invisible before they've reached the corners of the picture. Like a candle you just blew out, maybe leaving a slight impression of some smoke or shadow even.

color of flame should fit little bit more with background color, both more brownish I think, that's warmer and more mysterious, but please consult tim.

Schedule table

Museum presenation 9 or 10 November!

		6-Oct	7-Oct	8-Oct	9-Oct	10-Oct
		Initial meeting				(dicky) wiki setup
11-Oct	12-Oct	13-Oct	14-Oct	15-Oct	16-Oct	17-Oct
(tim) send gfx CD (tim) start making interaction rules
18-Oct	19-Oct	20-Oct	21-Oct	22-Oct	23-Oct	24-Oct
25-Oct	26-Oct	27-Oct	28-Oct	29-Oct	30-Oct	31-Oct
						(dicky) skeleton
1-Nov	2-Nov	3-Nov	4-Nov	5-Nov	6-Nov	7-Nov
						first testing demo

Process and Resources

Original storyboard

Van Gogh's texts

Download graphics via new pages in heading table

Photo reports meeting 2 november

Sounds Ground layer - can be looped -> create atmosphere
Action layer - results of specific actions
Melody layer - works certain themes return
Potato Eaters Sounds
Sound Uploads

Potato Eater Sequence

	1: Intro	2: trace the lines	3: light the lamp	4: 5th person	5: place the hands	6: rub through	7: portraits
Movies:	intro_moeder.swf	trailing_light_2.swf	lightningeff.swf	simonsays.swf
effects	Slow fade effects	trace lines effect light trail effect build up images scene 2 above interaction field letters text shading in	play with three lighting effects starlight (through window)/candlelight(in middle group people/oil lamp light (from position oillamp in later morphs) object is to play with intensity of each light source until optimum is found	follow the sounds effect letterstext shading in build hands visual effect	move hand sketch effect disolve hand sketch into painting effect build up images scene 6 above interaction field letters text shading in	Effects not yet fully crystalised	Effects not yet fully crystalised Portrait dissolve effect?? Portrait choose effect?? letters text shading in
graphics	Title graphics van gogh logo oil lamp movie sampled cursor	morph (pic201-210) Placeholer candle placeholder stars placeholder oillamp	morph (pic301-310) placeholder stars painting placehoder candle painting placeholder oillamp painting	morph (pic401-410) heads identified in detail from morph visuals	morph (pic501-510) Inset details of hands choose three to correspond with hand in morph	morph (pic601-610)	morph (pic701-710) Portrait visuals
story bord reference
interaction rules	no interaction	user has to make every invisible light dot visible to complete scene scene auto completes after period of inactivity	(3 little pieces wobbly, 1 success point, lightness is calculated from movement, crossfading between icon, darkness triggers morph, lightning movie from beam to broad light) SOUND: 1 basis sound, 1 action sound happens on first click, user plays with slider bars to alter light intensity scene auto completes after period of inactivity	(mimic sound melody, first you hear melody, and see visual indication , mimic it. morphs indepently of actions, simon says like) scene auto completes after period of inactivity	user discovers place for hand sketches, drags elastic objects to morphing picture (some wrong, some good) scene auto completes after period of inactivity	divide painting into several areas, every little area can be rubbed through scene auto completes after period of inactivity	all pictures are on a sphere user grabs one and drags it into place, 1 success placement
short description	Slow the user down into 1885 Slow fades between title pages in order slow fade into movie oil lamp movie oil lamp fades into cursor flame	Discover the lines of the sketch and how they change with our actions with small cursor as lamp, follow the trail to discover more reward is text and sound with succesful completion of scene	with small cursor as lamp, play with three lighting effects to discover dramatic oil lamp lighting	play a musical game by following an ever longer sequence of notes, lighting up one head on the basic morph. then follow this with the cursor surprise effect is to introduce fifth character	to place hands in morph and drop into place when found reward is text and sound	discover the colour in the painting by rubbing through with oil lamp cursor effect rewarded by text build-up	Using colour images of porttraits watch them disolve into the painting when you place them, and be rewarded with finale of music and text. Follow with a send this page to your friend and or sign up page.