Master Of Animation, Games & Interactivity
Master Of Animation, Games & Interactivity

In response to the theme of play&self, I record my own associate and make a short video to show them. 

Context:
When I see the words “self play”, I will think of self feeling and self association . If I see an ordinary object , I will apply my own perception to this object and get some emotional experience of it. For example, when I want buy something and in my mind, everything will became a number, a price. When I was feeling down, I will put some sad associations on the object. 
Psychologist Carl Jung(1910) theorized that people connect ideas, feelings, experiences and information by way of associations. Idea, feelings, memories and knowledge all influence their associations. So I want make an associate game to find myself.  
In this work, I record my own feelings and thinking at different times, then let them visualize.I was using photo to keep the original object(or scenes) and rethinking them three times. In the end, I context them with the original photos, put this products of visualization together.  
I also got inspiration from a game, It was a game video. See the words and sing a song that contains that word. In this video’s comments, audience left many song’s titles. It also make me think of some songs and memories. This game was made a rules then lead the player to associating with song. 

Song Association Words |Challenge : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zdOIqbMh3s)  
Jung, Carl G. (1910). "The Association Method". American Journal of Psychology. 21 (2): 219–269. 

Method:
1.Take a photo 
2.Record the first feeling
3.Record how I feel and thinking a few days later
4.Repeat 
5.Try to summarize all of my feeling then let them be icons or graphic pattern 
6.Put every thing together. 

outcome video link: https://youtu.be/8dQh9RkfGrA  

Reflection: 
For this personal associate game’s rules, I realize it should consider the time and environment in the rule. What time I have these association? When I looking this photo, where I am? Then think about the relation between them and associations.      
Also,I meet some problem when I was using Pr to make the video. The I can’t using the Pr skillful. So I did not put all of my photos and painting in this work. I want to show my feeling and thinking’s process, so I choose make a short video in the end. It was rough work, because video was not my strength.
After I finishing this work, I think I still have many parts could improve. Like the colour, graphic style and editing ways...  

The song I use in my video:猫的舞步 Candy_Wind   

About This Work

By Yiran Pan
Email Yiran Pan
Published On: 05/04/2022