Title Ideas

• One
• 1
• Hare Krishna
• We HARE Kr1shna
• We are One
• Krishna Krishna
• Krishna in different languages
• One in different languages
• Spiritual Souls
• Spirit
• Spirit and Soul
• Many
• Hare. Rama. Krishna
• Tilaka

Interactive Question Ideas

Guru Krishna Das

• Involvement
• How did you get involved with the Hare Krishna movement?
• How did you get involved?
• What's your story?
• Plans
• What's your plans after London?
• What's your plans after January?
• What's the next step of your journey?
• Where does your journey take you next?
• Living in the Ashram
• What's life like in the male Ashram?
• Clothing
• What's the significance of your clothing?
• How does your image relate to your beliefs?
• Beliefs
• What do you believe in?

Miriam

• Involvement
• How did you get involved with the Hare Krishna movement?
• How did you get involved?
• What's your story?
• Growing Up
• How was life growing up around Hare Krishna?
• Did you have a religious upbringing?
• What did you believe growing up?
• Living in the Ashram
• What's life like in the female Ashram?
• What's your routine while living in the female Ashram?
• Beliefs
• What do you believe in?

Dan

• Involvement
• How did you get involved with the Hare Krishna movement?
• How did you get involved?
• What's your story?
• How did you meet the devotees?
• Background
• What made you seek spirituality?
• Transition
• How was the transition?
• How was the religious transition?
• How did you find your religious transition?
• Arti
• What happens in an Arti?
• What is an Arti?
• Music
• What part does music play?
• What is the importance of music?
• What role does music play?
• Beliefs
• What do you believe in?
• Temple
• Why do people from all over the world come to the Radha Krishna Temple?

Olga

• Involvement
• How did you get involved with the Hare Krishna movement?
• How did you get involved?
• What's your story?
• Role
• What is your role within the temple?
• What do you do in the temple?
• Beads
• Why are the prayer beads significant?
• What do the beads mean?
• Tell us about your prayer beads
• Life
• How has the Hare Krishna movement changed your life?
• How has your involvement changed your life?
• How has it changed your life?

Layout/Design Experimentation

Rough Idea for Interactive Interview Page - We liked the idea of making the background black and white as it would draw more attention to the interviewees skin tones, highlighting the diversity of the Hare Krishna religion (we didn't have a photo of one of the participants at this point, hence two of the same photos). We also decided to focus on the eyes, as the eyes are said to be the entrance to the soul
and when speaking to the participants, they talked a lot about how they are spiritual and believe that every person is a soul.

Rough Idea for Interactive Interview Page 2 - We tried to make the images horizontal as well but we felt as though the first idea was far more effective and fit in with our theme more. 

Rough Idea for Rollover Captions - We liked the gold, as we felt as though gold is utilised a lot in patterns seen around the Radha Krishna Temple. We were unsure whether to place the captions all on one side, or alternate like is seen in this mock-up. We felt as though it looked quite inconsistent placed alternately.

Rough Idea for Rollover Captions 2 - We liked the contrast of the white text, but overall we liked the gold better. However, we felt as though the layout of all the text on one side looked cleaner. We decided to go for the gold text but the captions all on one side.

Rough Idea for Title Name and Font - We haven't 100% decided on a title, but this is one of our options. Although we really like the little leaves on either side, we weren't 100% sure on the font and felt as though it wasn't very representative of the Hare Krishna movement. 

Klynt Tutorials

https://youtu.be/86ryrq70HcU
https://youtu.be/b9zreuPBrGE
https://youtu.be/jq08FW1Yq7A
https://youtu.be/MHW3-aRzqis?list=PLRKso68bDY9_3RgDWQajbbY7k9tWlgInh

https://youtu.be/VG5EGfpRKCg?list=PLRKso68bDY9_3RgDWQajbbY7k9tWlgInh

Potential Structure for Idea

Structure 

Kabul 

INTRO - outside temple establishing shot cars going past, people walking round (1st Person).. click enter - 

establishing promo shots of reception, then click on receptionist and watch interview (welcome speech, introduce place)

Then back to 1st Person POV walk up stairs, take off shoes and option to enter the temple room pops up 

Click to enter room 

Establishing shots/sequence, also could show the spiritual rituals (pour water on head) ****could include in interviews 

Then chapter 1,2&3 options pop up, giving the viewer 3 characters to chose from that they would like to learn about  

Make sure that each character has different things to say so it's no too repetitive 

Environmental photographs - works v well 

When the viewer clicks on one of the characters they get the option to ask them several questions. Click the question and then the character will answer - mix between an interview and then footage relating to the subject of matter (e.g talk about praying and mediating, then show them praying and meditating)

Could also chose objects to learn about, most important things or traditions around the temple 

Could include text on screen to educate the viewer 

INCLUDE SOMETHING TO DO WITH PAINT ON FACE, maybe split cents in a way that encororates the lines 

Towards end of tour - join the Street parade 

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Different subjects 

Various stories within each subject 

ASHRAM

Environmental portrait for the background 

EVERYONE HAS DIFFERENT ROLES

Feather lady 

Russian bag man

Potential storylines for 1 character:

Street parade 

Meditation and praying 

Background 

Notes From Meeting with Sandra Guadenzi

Klynt - project gallery 

Contact directly 

Research exhausting projects 

Wonda

Awra amba experience 

Docubase 

Idocs

Look at tools 

What I want to communicate

What journey to go through 

What u want them to learn 

Putting person in a space

Architect 

Land in experience 

Journey opposed to story 

Organising a space for people to navigate into your space 

Who is the person watching 

Where do u position the user 

What do u want them to go through and experience and understand 

KLYNT OR WONDA

TREE STRUCTURE 

Who is it for????

How to look at the world differently 

Why should it be interactive 

Ask questions 

Get viewer to give opinion and ask questions 

Meeting Feedback

• Look for mosque/church similarities
• reinforces our intentions
• contact mosques and churches 
• attempt to rearrange meeting with sandra 
• research into the mosques and churches themselves 
• look into potential softwares that we could use for our iDoc 

Question Bridge - Interactive Documentary

http://questionbridge.com/

Question Bridge is an innovative transmedia project that facilitates a dialogue between a critical mass of black men from diverse and contending backgrounds and creates a platform for them to represent and redefine black male identity in America. The project is a platform for Black men of all ages and backgrounds to ask and respond to questions about life in America. We created it to stimulate connections and understanding among Black men, but we also wanted to show the diversity of thought, character and identity in the Black male population so rarely seen in American media. In essence, we want to represent and redefine Black male identity in America.

Their intention is to break down the negative perceptions people have about Black males. American media rarely shows whole, complex and authentic images of black men, so by creating a space where these images can live, we hope that people will start to see things differently

"It’s a method used by those who want to create honest expression and healing dialogue among members of a particular group. It works like this: first, one person asks a question looking into camera, as if they are talking directly to another person. Later, another person responds by talking directly into a camera. This question-answer exchange, the Question Bridge, reduces the stress of normal face-to-face conversations and makes people feel more comfortable with expressing their deeply held feelings on topics that divide, unite and puzzle. This was the central approach used in the project. It provides the consumer with the opportunity to navigate through many questions asked by subjects as well as watching the answers from many and even answer the question themselves. 

"After the overwhelming success of the art installation, we wanted to expand the conversation and make it easier for Black males to participate across the country. So we created the site and app. And since questions and answers are added constantly, this creates a living archive of Black male voices that can be searched by location and timeframe – essentially generating a map of Black male identity. We want that map to be heavily populated in the next few years, so from September 2014 to summer 2016, the website and mobile app will be our main focus as we push for our participation goal of 200,000 Black males. We think that this will help us gain visibility as a place to find authentic Black male voices."

This section of the documentary is very interesting in terms of the layout of the videos. There are 5 different videos placed in a line and one of the subjects ask a question. Meanwhile the other 4 subjects are looking in his direction to make it seem as if they're there with him and listening. After the man asks the question, they all respond simultaneously and this looks very natural and flows very well. It makes it seem like they are all together side by side in a single space. Also the slight rotation in the end videos provide a sense of depth and perspective to the screen and almost drag the viewer in. 

We could use several aspects of Question Bridge for inspiration for our project, specifically the layout of the 5 screens as this works very well in engaging the audience. Also the way in which the subjects answer each others questions and even flow from each others statements could work very effectively in our project when intending to show the similarities and parallels between religions. For example, several subjects could be placed and edited together, speaking coherently after each other to form a single statements, implying a similar belief or view for several religions. The interaction and responses between characters is also a very effective method and we could look into including this in our piece. 

this technique could be used in ours to show the similarities and parallels 

Sounds of Street View

http://www.amplifon.ie/sounds-of-street-view/index.html
"Sounds of Street View" is a multi-sensory tour featuring a unique 3D sound experience where you can explore and navigate through three chosen locations using it like google maps.

The 3D sound for "Sounds of Street View" is create through 5 different key elements which come together to produce the immersive 360 spacial audio which accompanies 360 video. These 5 elements are Placement, Distance, Bearing, Ear Imitation and Inverse Square Law. Below are short videos provided by the project which briefly explain what each aspect is and how they affect the audio. Also provided is the coding used by the project

Coding Template

/**
*  Adds a marker to the Street View map
* @param {Object}  data      settings for this marker, properties include...
*
*  {
*   data.name: String to be used as a name for this marker,
*   data.lat: Lattitude to use for position of this marker
*   data.lng: Longitude to use for position of this marker
*  }
*/
this.addMarker = function(data){

  var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
    map         : obj.panorama,
    title  : data.name,
    position  : new google.maps.LatLng(data.lat, data.lng),
    icon  : 'data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7'
  });
  
  obj.markers.push(marker);

}

Coding Template

define([], function(){

  var rad = function(x) {
    return x * Math.PI / 180;
  };
  
  /**
  * Calculates and returns the distance between 2 google latlng objects
  * @param {google.maps.LatLng}   p1   google LatLng position
  * @param {google.maps.LatLng}   p2   google LatLng position
  * @return {number}   
  */
  return function(p1, p2, metric){
    var R = 6378137,  // Earth’s mean radius in meter
    dLat = rad(p2.lat() - p1.lat()),
    dLong = rad(p2.lng() - p1.lng()),
    a = Math.sin(dLat / 2) * Math.sin(dLat / 2) + Math.cos(rad(p1.lat())) * Math.cos(rad(p2.lat())) * Math.sin(dLong / 2) * Math.sin(dLong / 2),
    c = 2 * Math.atan2(Math.sqrt(a), Math.sqrt(1 - a)),
    d = R * c;  // d = the distance in meter
    return d;    
  }
});

Coding Template

this.updatePan = function(lat, lng, heading){

 // Calculate base angle between the user and the sound
 var xDiff = data.lat - lat,
     yDiff = data.lng - lng,
     angle = Math.atan2(yDiff, xDiff) * (180/Math.PI);

 // Add POV heading offset
 angle -= heading;

 // Convert angle to range between -180 and +180
 if (angle < -180) angle += 360;
 else if (angle > 180) angle -= 360;

 // Calculate panPosition, as a range between -1 and +1
 var panPosition = (angle/90);
 if (Math.abs(panPosition) > 1) {
     var x = Math.abs(panPosition) - 1;
     panPosition = (panPosition > 0) ? 1 - x : -1 + x;
 }

 // Set the new pan poition
 sound.pos3d(panPosition, 1, 1);
}

Coding Template

this.updatePan = function(lat, lng, heading){

 // Calculate base angle between the user and the sound
 var xDiff = data.lat - lat,
     yDiff = data.lng - lng,
     angle = Math.atan2(yDiff, xDiff) * (180/Math.PI);

 // Add POV heading offset
 angle -= heading;

 // Apply lowpass filter *if* the sound is behind us (11,000hz = filter fully open)
 var freq = 11000;
 if (Math.abs(angle) > 90) {
     // User's back is to the sound - progressively apply filter
     freq -= (Math.abs(angle) - 90) * 100;
 }
 
 sound.filter(freq);
}

Coding Template

this.calculateVolume = function(distance){

 // Calculate volume by using Inverse Square Law
 vol = 1 / (distance * distance);
 // Multiply distance volume by amplitude of sound (apply ceiling max of 1)
 vol = Math.min((vol * data.db), 1);

 if (vol < 0.01) {
     if (sound.isPlaying) {
  obj.stopSound();
     }
 } else {
     if (!sound.isPlaying) {
  obj.playSound();
     }
 }

 return vol;
}

Creating your own

"Sounds of Street View" also provides you with the opportunity to create your own version, giving you a step by step guide on how to proceed in creating your own immersive tour.

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Statement of Intent Feedback

• Consider types of religion, would it be best to focus more on more underground beliefs?
• Consider access to places of worship - start early in order to ensure it is gained.
• 360 degree vid cameras now available at university store, could be usable for interactive google maps/Abbey Road style tours
• Research Sounds of Street View 
• Distance and volume of sound - perspective 
• Sandra Gaudenzi - arrange tutorial for more iDoc feedback
• Klynt/Adobe Muse - possible software for interactive website building (Klynt appears more user friendly)

Religious Leaders Installation Idea

Religions- parallels and similarities 

Installation 

4 walls or circle wall 

Multiple split screen 

Low lit 

Table in middle 

IPAC pressure pad 

Another idea that we have accumulated is to do with the subject of religion in the relations to the parallels and similarities between religions despite the prominent conflict, amplifying equality as many beliefs and traditions are similar. This would promote peace between religions. In order to show this we need to consider how we would present it, whether it be and exhibition or even screen based or a combination of media. We could potentially present it in the form of an interactive exhibition where on each wall, there are multiple split screens of establishing shots that are relatable to specific religions (e.g churches, mosque, synagogue). The sense of interactivity would be provided when the consumer walks into the room... there could be a table in the centre of the exhibition, with a multiple choice of buttons or books relating to different religions (e.g bible, qua'ran etc) and they would be asked to sit down on a provided chair. On the chair would be a built in I PAC pressure pad that initiates all the videos on the walls when pressure is applied. This would show multiple people all simultaneously entering the screen and sitting down on a chair making it seem almost like a conference or social group/meeting. ( could get everyone to say please choose an option on the table ). Once the consumer has chose an option, the specific corresponding video would play where they would explain their thoughts and beliefs. Meanwhile this is playing all the other videos would still be playing but the subjects would be silent just looking at the consumer as if they're listening to each other. This could be achieved through slight movement or nodding. Ideally the content would overlap between religions and could potentially make a coherent statement when combining multiple religions together. Perhaps one would we provide an opportunity for transition from religion to another.

Karen (Life Coach App) Analysis

The camera angle in the way that Karen is filming is very natural in order to act like you are video calling her on your phone and even in some cases seeming like you are with her in reality. She always keeps eye contact with the audience which furthers the connection with the consumer which almost encourages them to engage and interact more as it seems as if she is really listening and responding to your answers. She also comes across as honest and trustworthy due to the aforementioned reasons. The multiple choice answers as well as the descriptive ones allows you to reply in the way that you wish.

The time intervals between being able to use the app has both pros and cons. It allows it to be very realistic but also it can cause a loss in engagement, and forget to use app at a later time. For example sometimes she quickly speaks to you for 5 minutes and then you have to call her back several hours later.

The app starts off as a life coaching app, leading the user to believe that over the course of using the app, Karen will be able to teach you more about yourself and help you work towards your goals. However, as time progresses, the app almost completely flips, immersing the participant into Karen's life. You explore Karen's past, as well as engaging in conversation with her boyfriend (?) and experiencing their unstable relationship. As time progresses, the audience will realise that instead of Karen analysing their life, they will end up analysing Karen's.