Identity Box - Box idea

I have been thinking about the interactive identity box and had a thought today about a game that I play which I could incorporate into my identity box.



It would work by the user joing the boxes as in the game however the cube would not explode when all boxes are complete but as each colour is to show that part of my identity. I am hoping next term I will be able to look into flash more to enable me to achieve this.

Interactive box ideas #2

I started making a box :) And within that box I have made many others lol I have been making a first attempt at a simple box that I could then import into flash and make interactive. After I can then work out what will go in each section to represent my identity and me. Thinking more about dancing and how it plays a large part of who I am I have been thinking of an animated way to represent this. So far I have decided I like the idea of taking pictures of me dancing in my Pointe shoes. I can then Photoshop them to be just the shoe and use the edited pictures to make a pixilation animation.

Another idea would be an animated drawing of a ballet dancer since I saw some other ones on you tube and I really like the idea of it. I could draw the dancer myself so it would be personal to me and I would use a background track of a familiar dance track which I myself used to dance to.

Scribbly Dancer

The Dance

Interactive box ideas

I have been doing some thinking about what makes me who I am and my own personal identity and so far I have come up with a few ideas.

Firstly one of the main things I feel that has made me who I am is my dancing. The fact that I have danced since I was three has made me disciplined and hard working from a young age and therefore shaped me into who I am now and the teachings from my classes can be applied to day to day life too. I was therefore thinking that I could perhaps create a 3D version of point shoes, which could animate and dance around to a track I greatly identify with dancing.

Another big part of me is having a positive outlook on life and I enjoy seeing the people around me happy and smiling and after the seminar with Andy looking at text I thought perhaps I could incorporate it into my box. He mentioned perhaps using a favourite word reflecting who we are so possibly I could use the world smile and animate it to do just that.

During my interview we discussed the fact that I would like to continue with interactives next year and therefore it might be a good idea to incorporate this into the design of my box. I had been thinking about this and have come up with a simple first idea of how I could do this. Looking at a simple yet addictive game on miniclip.com 'Doodle’

( http://www.miniclip.com/games/doodle/en/) I thought of the idea of having a maze-style pathway around the box with a stick man which the user moves through the pathways into each of the different sections. Each section could then only become interactive when the character is within it, helping to add to the interactivity.

I have found it quite hard to think of things that give me my identity and so thought as I am home this weekend I thought I would ask family and friends what they thought was part of my identity and see if any of there inputs give me some inspiration.