World Building

Backstory: During our generation there was a nuclear war that devastated the planet and left the newly born affected with sickness and deformity, provoking society to turn its respects to its eldest generation. Old is a sign of health, prosperity, and beauty in this world. The elderly make the decisions and are glamorized like celebrities.

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Artist's Statement:

There is a lot to be learned from this assignment. First of all, (Dean Duncan would be proud of this observation) our environment caused us to come up with a back story. We had to understand our circumstances in order to understand the world that we are creating. It was very relatable to the movie we watched in class »La Jetee«. They created a world and an environment that drew us in and made us a part of it.

        We did make ourselves part of this world. While, yes, we were only able to create things that  we have seen or experienced, we were able to arrange them in a way that was new and tailored for our new environment. This, in a way really blurred the line between science fiction and science fact. We had to ask ourselves questions that sometimes we never asked before to enter into this new world. Questions such as: »If I was driving down the freeway, what would I see?« »Would they really wear that?« or the  occasional »would this be believable?«. What makes this even more interesting is that we all have our own vision on what this world would be like to us. We all might not be able to see things from the same angle as someone else however, it could be a wonderful thing.

        This project really stretched the imagination in this way by taking us out of this reality and thinking critically about the environment around this particular situation. What gave this world an even greater depth was the fact that it wasn't just one person's interpretation of the world, it was four collective imagination’s collective brain baby. This makes the world that we imagined complex. The complexity comes from a cumulation of ideas coming into a collective whole. It's just like movies and a quote that I’m pretty sure comes from Walter Murch which says that “each production element is someone’s artwork. If the scenic designer was having a bad day, it will show by things on the set ect. ect.”

        In Dean’s class we also learned about milieu narratives where a character is made round (or given depth) because of the environment. In this way what we are creating is a product of the Milieu. We are giving anyone who lives in this environment a story to tell. We are giving them a similar background at a particular time.

        Creativity, as a collective project, is a very interesting concept that, obviously shown here, shows that we can create worlds and new environments based on our own ideologies and circumstances. The payoff of which seems very rewarding.