Week Three

This week I started to make artefacts within the software so that I could start to visualise my ideas in a more 'official' setting. Some of my words like 'Shadow' and 'Silhouette' were very obvious with their literal meanings while also having a very emotive sense that would work very well within a narrative. These ideas are what I wanted to start exploring, including both an experiment on 'Shadow' in its proper form as well as analysing it within an interactive narrative context. I started with the sketches of how a day to night cycle may perform and how in a typical day, one may view the shadows cast by the light within their space. Using my sketches, I then went ahead and tested out a day to night cycle within Unreal Engine, a simple process that I found challenging due to the unknown software. When creating the day to night cycle, I imagined it within a larger context. We tend not to notice the little things during our lives, such as how the light changes throughout the day and the procedural shift of the shadows; this is the feeling I wanted to replicate back into my project. The shadow experimentation, while literal, would be in the background as something that you would only notice if you paid attention to it. I thought this would be an excellent way to experiment with the ideas around shadow and mirror in the way I chose to replicate similar day-to-day things in a small way.