{"id":1105,"date":"2022-10-27T21:20:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T21:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/printcode\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2022-10-27T21:20:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T21:20:22","slug":"final-project-jinzhong-sophie-ruoxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/printcode\/final-project-jinzhong-sophie-ruoxi\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Project – Jinzhong, Sophie, Ruoxi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ideation<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

For the final project, we started from brainstorming about what topic to be addressed. We first talked about how governments would try to prescribe a unified message to the public and impose values on us that define what is considered to be \u201cgood,\u201d \u201crational,\u201d and \u201csuccessful.\u201d Following those attempts are efforts to transform everyone into a moral agent of the prescribed values and inevitably, efforts of colonization and marginalization. In order to achieve the massacre of cultures, one of many steps is to terminate the use of native languages. And that got us thinking that many languages are disappearing in action. Few children are speaking dialects in the places we grow up. On top of that, the Chinese government recently started to ban students from speaking dialect in school in the \u201csuyu\u201d district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We all feel that language is an imperative part of a culture to live on. Therefore we decided to do something that speaks up about the disappearance of languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then we started to ideate what forms of experimental publication our project takes on. After doing some research and brainstorming, we all really like the idea of doing a flip book. To us, the flip book represents two sets of motions that mean two different things. First, the act of quickly flipping the book triggers an animation of a language disappearing. It represents an event. It is evanescent and ongoing. Second, the act of printing the languages on a series of paper and having them stamped represents a tranquil state. Going through them slowly, page by page, evokes a feeling that this might be something to hold onto. This flip book documents sentiments and actions we want to convey to the public about disappearing languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Animation & Printing<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

For the text animation part of the flipbook, we searched for many p5.js and After Effects kinetic typography references and tutorials. Ultimately, we chose to use After Effects considering the animation diversity and ease of production. Since we had two people in charge of the animation, we did a thorough layout and framerate planning before production to ensure the uniform format of the four animations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The final four animations we chose were broken, exploded, turned into dust, and turned into garbled code. They allude to the process of language extinction through different forms of presentation. For example, most people who spoke Gottscheerish moved to the United States and switched to English, and then we used garbled code to represent how it almost died out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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