Occupy Outer Space - Arecibo Mike - 3121 - Documentation

I took this picture of Grover from Sesame Street in November of 2019. It's the first thing I thought of when tinking about decay. I worked backwards from this image which led me to use Kermit as well.

I was also inspired by this video.

I couldn't get used to drawing digitally, so I drew on a whiteboard and on paper, and took pictures with my phone. Most of the backgrounds are done in pencil on paper and the characters are drawn on the whiteboard.

Here are the images I ended up using.

Here are some of the images I ended up not using. I wasted a lot of paper.

I edited and colored everything using the paint bucket tool in Photoshop in one giant messy project.

I recorded the music with my ukulele and my phone. I used Audacity to make each file exactly twenty seconds. I tried to use a microphone, but there was a lot of static that I couldn't get rid of, so I just my phone mic. I think the poor quality kind of works, but it's unlistenable on my laptop speakers.

Here are the raw video files including an alternative song I was going to use for love.

I put everything together in Premiere, which was a new challenge for me, especially the zooms in the Coincidence video. I learned how to use key frames.

I made the poems using p5.js and embeded the sketches. Each word of the poem is in an array and each click makes the next word appear. Once the it reaches the end, the first word is deleted and it creates a loop.

Here's one of the the sketches.