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Team 9

Nina Gstaltner
Parnian Farmani
Amelie Proksch
Jenny Korkstad

  • Team 9, Tutorial 5.12.

    By

    Amelie Proksch

    ,

    Jenny Krokstad

    ,

    Nina Gstaltner

    and

    Parnian Farmani

    Introducing ” The Ones Who Break the Silence”

    The Ones Who Break the SilenceDownload
    • The world celebrates its 70th anniversary of achieving a technological utopia, created by the powerful billionaires who essentially rule it.
    • The protagonist is introduced after watching the news.
    • He wanders through this perfect world and discovers a strange object that makes a sound.
    • At first uncertain, he takes the object with him the next time he encounters it.
    • Over time, he figures out that the object reacts to sounds of frustration.
    • While experimenting with it, he begins a personal journey.
    • Through the object and the release of his frustrations, he stops feeling alone, reconnects with his emotions, and learns to accept himself as an imperfect human in a technically perfect world.

    “We live in a world that has masked the amount of complexity in which we actually operate. And so as a society we have a bit of a difficulty negotiating ourselves with complexity. So it’s really important to put notions of complexity on stage as other aesthetic notions that we can get comfortable with.” (Excerpt from Discussion with Andrea Pena)

    • resonates with the story we want to tell

    Prop-Design

    • Microphone, headphones, sound, speaker gadget
    • Human-made touch
    • Interesting shape
    • Imperfect / damaged
    • Visible electronics

    Sketches, Models

    • transparent part
    • metal part
    • colourful part
    • electrical cables ect.

    Lyrical Interpretation

    • poetry slam
    • inner monologue & thoughts throughout the story

    “It’s not that I wish
     for smudges to exist.
    I’d never disrespect
    this generational bliss —
    the sacrifices, the polish,
    the shine of all this…”

    Creating Sound, Rhythm & Music

    • collecting sounds of frustration
    • layering the sounds
    • Blues, Soul, Jazz beats/ bass to go along with poetry slam

    Visual Inspirations

    • black and white/ unsaturated / brownish lens
    • hand-drawn animation layers
    • colourful touches

    Filming Locations

    • City Scenes: exploring spaces
    • Alley Scene
    • Running Scene: Playing with light, sound & camera perspective
    • Apartment Scene:
    • Elliot Outfit- Styling: futuristic but subtle

  • Team 9, Tutorial 12. 11

    By

    Amelie Proksch

    “If human growth is fueled by emotion, can a world built on perfection still nurture the complexity of being human?”

    Topic Re-Introduction

    • heart of this project lies in the role of emotion — especially frustration
    • force that drives growth, learning, creativity, and transformation

    So we ask: If a “solved world” erases friction, does it also erase the very mechanism that makes us evolve?

    Connection & Relatability

    • naturally gravitated toward emotional dimension of future
    • Frustration is universal — it shapes humanities evolution
    • mirrors already present trajectory of a society increasingly optimised to comfort, efficiency and emotional smoothing
    • Speculating about what happens to this emotion in a world without obstacles felt like a genuine question worth asking

    As life becomes easier, what happens to our inner complexity?

    Research Results

    Gaining understanding of Frustration through a Professional Point of View

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    “Essentially, frustration describes the emotional state experienced when facing failure, disappointment, or a lack of success due to unmet or disappointed expectations.”

    “… frustration can also lead to motivation (e.g., through new problem-solving strategies, creative approaches, reflection on existing and setting new (realistic) goals, but also through reflection on one’s own expectations. “Failure as a driving force” for further development, opportunity to learn, stimulation of creativity and strengthening of resilience.”

    “In cultures where people value politeness highly and in strict regimes, frustration is often suppressed.”

    Setting the Scene

    … imagine a future that appears near-utopic at first glance— a solved world.

    • humanity seems to have finally reached the state it always dreamed of
    • Beneath, something essential has begun to fade
    • Emotional depth is quietly diluted in the name of harmony 
    • Discomfort, frustration and inner turbulence are seen as unnecessary, impolite or even inappropriate
    • Result: erosion of humanness

    Our world explores the collision between the performed ideal of perfection and the unchanged truth of human imperfection. 

    The Community: An Art Movement

    • Their role is to make people awake thought and feelings that are not socially accepted
    • consists of people who are driven to meet up with others to express their frustrations

    Reasons for Frustration

    • AI has made machinic perfection the standard
    • Social norm to not critisize this perfect society

    Gain of joining the Community

    • reconnect with your humanness
    • Outlet for bottled up emotions

    Community is showcased through

    • Art pieces put out in the cityscape
    • Theatre Group

    Character Introduction

    Making Of: Sound and Storytelling

    • documentary will follow a single storyline centered on one protagonist who is a member of our community. Through this character, we aim to portray a personal story that reflects the collective spirit and connections within our community.
    • We have chosen to begin by focusing on storytelling through sound, using it as the primary medium. Moving images will then be added to complement and enhance the narrative.
    • Our goal is for sound and image to merge seamlessly.

    In the 1500 opera was revolutionary: they were saying “let emotion and story lead, not rules.”
    → So opera’s origin was already a liberation of human expression → a return to emotional truth and individuality

    Questions for us

    • How can we portray the tension between our community and this world?
    • How can we get the watcher/listener engaged and relate to our story through sound?
    • How will the emotional curve of our story and rhythm look like?

    Questions to you

    • Do you want the exact story of the protagonist by mid-terms?
    • Anything that is unclear?