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A Cinderella Revealing

Posted: September 26, 2019 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized |Leave a comment »

For our class’ pressure project 2, I created an audial retelling of the fairy tale Cinderella. I used the program Isadora to create an interactive experience for the audience. I split the screen and assorted buttons/sliders with a prompt to follow them chronologically.

The buttons are chronologically assorted to follow prominent parts of the story, each part represented by a different color grouping. I had anticipated that the audience member would play/pause the buttons/sliders within one correlating color group before moving onto a different grouping.

I wanted to avoid overlapping different groupings of buttons/sliders or for an audience member to randomly click buttons because of a technical issue I had. My issue was that I could not figure out how to trigger an mp3 movie file to replay a sound more than once. Because of this, after the audience member pressed a button, the sound could only play once. Therefore, I worried that if sounds overlapped then the story line would be unrecognizable. Below are a few of my patches for this project (because many of them look identical):

I used the comment actor to color code which movie/sound players correlated to the buttons/sliders.
Most of my actors were simply sound and movie players and projectors. This particular patch in pink connected slider controls to the volume, playing the movie/sound players on loop.
However this patch reveals the troubles I had with only being able to trigger a movie player once. I connected the button to the trigger value ‘trigger’, sending the value 1 to the speed of the movie player thus cueing the sound. However, I learned that to enable the ability to play the sound as many times as you want, I needed to connect a trigger value ‘0’ to the ‘position’ on the movie player. This would trigger the sound to reposition to the beginning of its initialized ‘playstart’.

The audience gave me positive feedback, saying that it was fun to piece together the story line through limited sounds clips from the Disney movie versions. They were interested in what the story would sound like if I had included more audio from more versions of Cinderella. Potentially this would bring in more cultural perspectives thus serving a larger audience’s understanding of this story.

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