So here I copied the 9 and put them 4 times in a composition. I don't like how many repeats there are but I do like the overall effect.

Here I tried to produce 4 different compositions of 9 and put them together to create one larger video, this works much better due to the randomness of it and the less repeated squares.

and After Effects to work with these face videos. It was a bit of a pain to work with so many layers in Premiere and a lot easier in After Effects. However I found it harder to compress them into a single file in AE...

So I put together 9 of the faces into a grid and over lapped them so they all speak at once, what I like about this is how the viewer cannot really concentrate on one character but is almost over-whelmed by it all, trying tyo work out who says what, trying to focus on one or two of the faces but being drawn away by other people speaking and how some don't fit. I need to keep playing with these videos and how they speak, and whether they all need to talk or if some don't. I found that when the sounds were not sync'd it didn't have the same effect, I also found that the more faces there were the more mind-melting it became.

I need to work on video compression though and the size as this is causing it to look messy, which might be good but i'm still not quite sure.

I am going to keep the whole cross dressing/stripping idea on the back burner for another time later in the year. 

Instead, still looking at the theme of voyeurism, the viewer has to interact with the screen, the glasses and the headphones to view the work. But they are just shown 5 of the characters looking back at them, not doing anything or saying anything, just staring, each for about 2 or 3 minutes, why? Because essentially this is what we're doing through social networking, we're stalking, watching, peeking into the lives of others, without real consent. We are accused of 'Facebook stalking' in a joking way, but we are stalking eachother, watching eachother watching us watching eachother watching us.

I had this idea a while ago and I started working on a rant, a speech for one of the characters to say directly into the camera, so that, the first few are unaware they are being watched, the final one notices and addresses the viewer head on demanding to know what they are doing 'watching me watching you watching me watching you' though I will work on this some more. I want them to address the ideas of wasting time on the internet, talking but never talking, liking but not explaining what they like, poking but never touching ect... like a sick stalker and a voyeuristic pervert!

I had to have a big re-think. Here is the result of that.

*NO SOUND

I'm not sure how I feel about this all together, maybe it needs sound to hold it together and a lot more work.

I've re-thought over everything and what my film is essentially about, and the answer is COMMUNICATION.
Although the virus idea may not come under that title in the same way a conversation does, I think that it being passed from person to person is still a form of communication, especially since online you'd have to accept or download something, you'd have to have a conversation with your computer.
I'm going to keep working on this to improve it so that it's top quality and it says what i need it to.

So I had the idea that when the virus is attacking Mia internally, it would be like Space Invaders, that simple classic game style, with both organic and digital elements as the aliens and Mia's face shooting lasers out of her mouth at them.

However, upon completion of the visual for this, I think Pac-Man would be much better...

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I think this Pac-Man style works a lot better, although I have removed the use of computer components attacking Mia's head, I have her chased down by the biological viruses running on a loop. I have also edited the pac-Man game screen, adding circuit boards to give it a digital, inside a computer feel, representing the inside of Mia's brain.

I've re-done the test using Mia and trying to work on lighting issues with the opening shot that were seen in the first test. I've changed the vomit to paper, which is going to say 'GAME OVER' in a printed style. I really like how the paper looks coming out of Mia's mouth.

The piece is an abstract look at how computer viruses attack and what would happen if they were airborne.

I'm still working on what the virus is going to look like, as it stands it's going to be hand drawn like the germs, Skull and Crossbones, which flash with a warning sound, then this zooms out to reveal a 'space invaders' style scenario with germs, microchips moving down attacking Mia's face which is trying to shoot them. They quickly destroy her head which results in GAME OVER looping over and over again in green in her eyes. The camera then zooms out to reveal Mia's face as she is slumped against an old door, she them vomit's up GAME OVER on paper.

I really like this short animation, made to simply show who a computer fights off attacks from viruses and hackers. The basic graphics are really quite effective and reminds me of n 80s video game, very abstract.

Ben Reardon of Dataviz Australia has created a stunning visualisation that shows a single attack on a voice-over-IP (VOIP) server, similar to those used for Skype. Hacked VOIP servers are often used for black-market communications and cheap calling-card scams. In the video above, the server is shown on the left, where the accounts of the people signed up to make calls are represented by blue bubbles. A hacker's attack comes from the right, launching small white and red bubbles that represent scans from a malicious computer program. The battle that plays out is slowed down by 25 per cent.

If the hacker's scans connect with the blue bubbles, they may be able to compromise the server, gathering the passwords of account holders and ultimately letting the hacker control other people's phone activity.

To protect itself against the attack, the server releases green honeypots: disguised data released to trap the intruding scans. But the hacker then increases the number of scans in an attempt to overwhelm the honeypots. In the end, the server wins the battle.


from NEW SCIENTIST MAGAZINE

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/03/born-to-be-viral-computer-fights-hacker-attack.html