The Beatles and the White Room

          I have two goals I want to accomplish by the end of this semester: I want to get a large chunk, if not finish, done with my upcoming eMagine project and start a collaborative project with a few other members from the e-Communication program.
         As for the eMagine project, there are a few things anybody should know about the context of that phrase. EMagine is a media festival that students around the greater Kansas City area can enter their works or designs in one of four major categories: Animation, Graphic Design, Video Production, or Web Design. I have aspirations to enter the Animation category in the same sub-category I entered last year; I want to win the top prize in the Mechanical animation category. My goals are to have a sort of Beatles Hall of Fame theme this year.
          The Beatles are arguably the greatest band to have ever lived and are statistically the most successful band to have existed despite only recording for 6 years. I want to pay homage to the Fab Four by constructing a Hall of Fame featuring their biographies, their most famous instruments, and other miscellaneous Beatles memorabilia while the camera goes through a bit of a walk-through to a Beatles song that has yet to be determined. Short term, anyway, is to do the major instruments of each of the Beatles. I am currently about 70% of the way done with Ringo Starr's famous Ludwig drum set that was featured during the Beatles' early years including their performance on the Ed Sullivan show.
          This shares top priority with my other collaborative project.
          As for the collaborative project, a few friends from the e-Communication program and I want to construct a short film that includes at least the aspects of mechanical 3D animation as well as video production. We had the idea that somebody would wake up in a white room (or any other color) with no clue of who they are, where they come from, or where they are. Their only communication will exist with the loudspeaker that resides in the room. The audience nor the main character has any idea whether or not the voice on the other side is a friendly face or a ferocious foe.
My part in that would be to construct the actual room and work on the cameras inside the room and oversee the filming in the Media Room at Olathe Northwest, which is essentially a giant green screen. We want to finish this by semester and also submit this to the eMagine festival in April.

On top of all of this, I plan to keep my interests in graphic design to design my indoor soccer team's crest and other various projects. This will remain on the back-burner until everything else is done, though.