Currently I have drawn 75 frames
Interfaces: Which aesthetic and frame rate fits my animation style?
Hand drawn images but still with 25fps
Vector based 25fps
Bill Nicols modes of documentary:
Reflective Mode
Questioning the authenticity of documentary in general (fits to the brief: make a “fictional” documentary)
Challenge the form and expectations you have by watching a documentary
Form in this mode: the mockumentary
Depicting an observational/expository documentary but completely fictional.
we will be subjective, getting across an absurd point, poking fun at all the tropes and play with convention
Eg. ‘What We Do in the Shadows’, ‘7 Days in Hell’, ‘Tour de Pharmacy’, ‘the Office’
Participatory Mode
‘When the encounter between filmmaker and subject is recorded and the filmmaker actively engages with the situation they are documenting’ (Nicols, 2010)
The filmmakers are as well the subjects of our doc as the sloth they are filming
Eg. Michael Moore, Louis Theroux
This allows for us to get our “subject” viewpoint across – and tell the narrative we want to tell
Documentary form & styles:
OUR MOVIE
Interior of the sloth apartment
The Sloth
Camera
Storyboards
Schedule:
Until Jan. 8th: Finish terrariums, finish costume and finalize dialogue
Jan. 8th-11th: Filming
11th-16th: Cutting and post production
We decided to look for pitch competitions within the span of the semester.
According to Y/C in orderd to prepare a pitch we need to ask ourselves the following questions:
1. What do you do?
2. How big is the market?
3. What’s your progress?
4. What’s your unique insight?
5. What’s your business model?
6. Who’s on your team?
7. What do you want?
We did competitors analysis and on this basis decided on the niche we want to fill in – modeling wealth redistribution trough progressive wealth taxation (proposed by Thomas Piketty) as none of the competitors implement this.
Nobody is focusing on the implementation of technology in order to achieve a more fair society, as radically as we are. We say it as it is, and we will penetrate spaces where these billionaires exist and tell them how it is. How bold should we be about mentioning billionaires?
Target Market
Public and private actors: policy designers, government analysts, local and state finance departments, funding organizations, lobbying institutes
Revenue Streams (How we earn money)
Subscription based software service (modeled on Palantir)
Cost Structure
Corpus – 35000
AI Subscription (Claude) – 450-600
Economist Hire – 2000
AI Engineer – 3000
Misc. Services – 200
Headquarters Space – 1200
7000 Eur monthly
4750 GmbH (estimate) per year
Key Activities & Resources
Documenting movement of capital in order to push for taxation.
Documenting of inheritances.
Documenting of projected profit made off investments by private individuals.
Cooperation with Tax Havens
Public Tax Code
State Tax Data
Channels
In person networking
Online provocation
1. What do you do?
2. How big is the market?
3. What’s your progress?4. What’s your unique insight?5. What’s your business model?
6. Who’s on your team?7. What do you want?
Ad.2. We still need to research how many potential users of our product there would be.
Ad.6. Jakub Pieszczek, the ML engineer we consulted, agreed to appear in our company’s online presence. We still need to look for an economist.
Read through and script rewrite
Tryouts with lighting
First SnorriCam Shot
Setting up the location
Shooting
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Table
V1:
One way of building: Connecting the plates directly
Other way: a frame
Other versions:
Dimensions
Moodboard
Setup
table, stickers and installations
table and stools final version
Creating a brand for the project
sticker set
Platform to link to my stickers and research
Next step cutout door
revisit wood workshop and order wood
Defining the theoretical framework of our product
Notes from meeting with Krystian Łukasik, research fellow at Harvard University, a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Warsaw and an Advisor at the Polish Economic Institute, where he works in the Department of the Digital Economy
Defining the technology of our product
Notes from meeting with Kuba Pieszczek, Data Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer at QED
Brand Identity
Core beliefs
Logo
Tone of Voice
We used agent mode of ChatGPT and trained it using Twitter posts of renowned members of effective accelerationism movement as well as the Techno-Optimist Manifesto itself, to translate terms from classical economy to the language of eff/acc.
Then we tried to use the agent to create a mission statement for our company.
After feedback session with Soph, we realised we need to be more bold. This is our mission statement after changes:
” We believe that cutting-edge technology is here to take humanitie’s potential to another level, that’s why we invest in AI-powered solutions. EverGrowth exists to weaponize policy. Our software analyses complex real-life data, stress-tests policy decisions while modeling their impact trajectories, and suggest protocols that can be used to reroute more capital and energy through a broad base of builders – not just a handful – restoring patency of the pipes of the techno-capital infrustructure.
EverGrowth treats taxation, money transfers, labour market policies, wage adaption, ownership, governance, and cross‑border finance as nodes and pipelines of the techno-capital machine. This engine cannot be stopped and this engine will be optimized and maximized thanks to EverGrowth.”
Website design
We took inspiration from the following websites:
What we need to do next:
