CPS week4 Environment

Theme
Discussions of Environment

Context

I think the environment is not just the physical world which we can see and touch. One of the meanings of environment that Oxford English Dictionary gives us is that the conditions that affect behavior and development of sb/sth. So I think some intangible environment should not be ignored, for example, the language environment. 

I found an interesting experiment about language environment. In the experiment, play negative and positive words to two plants and after 30 days the plant which always receive bad word has drooping and dying leaves. The link to the experiment:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5703247/Bizarre-experiment-shows-talking-plants-thrive.html

And Chris showed me an animation which visualizes people's languages but I forget the name. In that animation fluid shapes will come from people's mouth when they speak and people's mood will influence the color and shape of the shapes. I think it is a great example of the intangible environment around us.

Method

Draw the animatic frame by frame, and then composed them to a gif.

Response

I made a short animatic about language environment influences creatures' growth. In the animatic, some circles come from the left mouth which means saying in a gentle way and some triangles come from the right mouth which means saying in a rude and acute way. So the gentle language environment grows up a flow but the rude language environment grow up a plant with thorn. I put two language environments (good/ bad) together. The good language environment with white background is on the left and the bad language environment with a black background is on the right because I want to highlight the construction between the two.