Midterm Final Version

Marty

The Farmer

March 31, 2011


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1. Farmer is out in his field. He pauses and turns to see a meteor heading for his house. He turns running towards the house. He doesn't make it and the blast knocks him back. Bits of rubble and body parts land near him, though these are not his body parts. He picks of a picture and in that picture is his wife and child.
He puts the picture away and sees what was the meteor but was actually a robot stomping on what's left of his house and his family. The farmer becomes enraged and grabs the shotgun also lying among the rubble and faces the metal goliath. The robot moves forward but is knocked back by a shotgun blast to the chest, and then goes down with another. The farmer snapping out of his fury, begins to weep and mourns for his family.

2. The farmer fears for his family safety and runs as fast as he can towards the house to try and warn his family about the meteor. This is showing courage, putting himself in danger to try and rescue his family.
He doesn't make it, and his family is dead. He then sees the robot and becomes enraged with fury and stands up against it. This is showing our instincts can take over and over come certain fears such as death. This can be called "the Fight or Flight response".

3. For this midterm project and this version of it I wanted to convey a mixture of what fear can do to an individual and how an individual reacts to that situation and what motivates him/her to overcome fear.

4. I made most of the goals I set out to revise. I have collected sounds for the piece and might add some more to the piece.

5. Working on the piece I had trouble at first spatially, but I believe I fixed those errors. I had trouble being able to turn on the sound when in AE but the problem was that I wasn't hitting the right button.