So my project deadline is the end of November 2007 to give time for preperation for the project premiere/ showcase. Now what is the P.A.E.-07 and how is it a New Media Capstone. First off I define New Media as: "The digitalization of concepts, ideas, and identities" And right off the bat when I chose to pursue New Media I knew I wanted to create full length feature films because of my tinkering in the past with films. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5kspg0nK5A , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLm-G7v7hS4, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg4UbF5j1nI)
So in early November of 2005 I set sail on my first script with the help of my friend Matt Schultz for idea reinforcement. I will not lie this 21 page script was not easy it took twice as long to revise than it did to write. The story is called "Weekend Assignment" and its about a young college student named Karl Patterson who is given the task of documenting real wildlife for a weekend homework assignment and his friend, whom is a man that is a member of the NSWA (National Sasquatch Watchers of America) and is as false of a person as his organization, wants to help Karl with this assignment. The entire film is about their journey (ofcourse this is a comedy film).
Now I have my film preproduction in motion and that would probley be enough to defend as a capstone, but if you know me than you know that I love to push the envelope. So my next school of thought was well since I can already picture this film and to me it will only resonate Amateur Film over and over no matter how celluloid I make it look or how many film festivals I submit it in. How can I make this film capable of something no other amateur films do?? This was my golden question for about a 4 days.... I broke it down to fundamentals, What is this film or better yet what is a film? And my answer was humbly two timelines (ie. Video and Audio) I can enhance each of these timelines with stereoscopics or 6.1 audio, but how do I create a revolutionary appeal to such a common form? I came up with the idea of adding 3 more timelines to the film to have 5 in all (Video, Audio, Humidity, Temperature, and Odor). This was it! The next 2 days I frantically drafted ideas of how to introduce such timelines and I came up with my final design the P.A.E.-07 Peripheral Active Environment.
