Pressure Project 3 – Marvel – Alec Reynolds
Posted: March 4, 2022 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »For the final pressure project, I enlisted the use of a franchise that has had a significant impact on my life. Marvel Studios has created a Global Phenomena that has not been matched before. The complexity of story telling and world building that the Marvel films achieve is nothing short of incredible.
The prompt for the third pressure project encouraged students to create a auditory narrative that discussed a piece of cultural importance in our lives. From this, I was able to attribute the influence that the films have had on me as a person. With the release of Iron Man in 2008, I fell in love with the character and the complexity of his suits. I would go so far to say that the character heavily motivated my passions for STEM and especially engineering.
Further, the Marvel films do an impressive job at tackling real world issues through the lens of a supernatural world. By giving characters that are literally God’s, flaws and grounded issues, generates a deeper sense of connection and reflection.
For my pressure project I wanted to create an auditory experience that created a sense of excitement and inspiration for the viewer. I begin the audio with a narration of how I view Marvel in the context of my culture. I have shared so many intimate moments with friends, family and strangers over the existence of these films. The next segment in the audio is a narrative story about the growth of the marvel cinematic universe up to the finale of the Infinity Saga, Endgame. The sounds in this story are designed to evoke excitement, inspiration and appreciation for the dynamic capacity of the films.
I chose to focus the visual aspect of the experience around the Marvel 10 Years promo, since this was an important time in the MCU where I really reflected on how big of a role these movies had on me. I think back to all the times that I was obsessing over these films at a very young age, and to see the passion stick with me all these years is so fascinating. The medium which I shared the image is through a 3D printed picture called a lithophane. These are 3D pictures that you can feel due to the contoured depth that they are printed with. I accessorized the experience with RGB LEDs to highlight specific moods in the audio.
If I had more time with this project I would love to print the banner in a much larger format and then create a lighting system that illuminates each character when they have a sound bite introduced in the audio. I also would have created an audio track that was 120 sec versus 180 sec.