project one: narrowing down the options

For this project I have decided to go with an idea that came from my idea of using words with the prefix 'ten'. I will demonstrate the meaning of ten words beginning with 'ten'.

The video will be stop-motion, and will experiment with the idea of things moving from the 2nd to the 3rd dimension. This quick video-sketch demonstrates what I mean by this:



The words will all be demonstrated/explained on an 11x17 piece of paper on a wall (5 pieces wide, 2 pieces tall), creating a kind of grid. Each word will be allocated five seconds for this demonstration to happen. They will all be a combination of 2 dimensional stop-motion, and a three-dimensional character interacting with them.

The ten words are:

1) Tendril: the stem or appendage of a plant. For this word, an image of a plant will be on the paper. A (real) hand will approach the paper and grab a stem).

2) Tender: soft, easily wounded. For this word, something (haven't quite decided, maybe a piece of meat as they are often described as tender) will be cut by the (real) person.

3) Tennis: the sport. For this word, the 3-d person will hit a tennis ball from 3-d into the paper, and it will fade away, as seen in the video above.

4) Tenor: adult male singer. For this word, the 3-d person will be conducting images of a tenor singer. Here is a video clip I will take the images from:
http://www.archive.org/details/Europeanposte-FrankTenagliaTenorPanisAngelicus753-3

5) Tent: a portable home. For this word, a tent will be assembled in the 2-d images, and the 3-d character will zip-up the tent's "door".

6) Tenaculum: a surgeon's knife. For this word, a beating heart will be shown on the paper, and the 3-d character will use the knife to perform surgery on it.

7) Tentacle: slender flexible process in animals. I don't know exactly what I'll be doing to demonstrate this word.

8) Tense: stretched tight. For this word, the 3-d character will grab a rope from the 2-d image and pull it over their shoulder, facing away from the wall.

9) tenth: tenth part, after ninth. I also don't know exactly what I will do for this word.

10) tend: pay attention to. For this word, the 3-d character will mend a wound on an arm in the 2-d image on the wall.

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concepts surrounding the theme of 10:

1) decades: google images, top hits of 1950's - 2000's, showing most viewed or associated images with each decade.
themes: stereotypes, generalizations, blocks of time



2) scores: digital collage, elements of competitive sports which aim for a perfect 10.
themes:perfect scores, aspirations, judgment



3) words: every tenth word highlighted to create the following sentence: crossing weakest wrote park two to and charge send told email rickety amazed on by outside St. used overflowing responsibility it property crews the greet Barrett called city empty where do a morning trash property depending.



4) money: increments adding up to ten/one juxtaposed with receipt transfer paper
themes: counting, saving, money, consuming, spending



5) channel ten: photo of television



6) X: graphic composition of X, the symbol representing ten
themes: representation, counting, Roman numerals



7) squares: increasing ten times in units of ten, rotating ten times
themes: multiplication, mathematics



8) ten provinces: a photo of each province's provincial flag
themes: nationality, distance, "Canadianism"



9) prefix: "ten" as a prefix
themes: words within words, changing words



10) Polaroid packages: ten exposures per Polaroid package, now no longer in production
themes: rarity, extinction, obsolete machines and technology