APD-week 4-Play and Place-Calories(app concept)

    THEME

Play and Place

CONTEXT

When planning this week’s homework, I first asked myself what my understanding of play and place is. The play and place project that I am interested in in my mind is a visual project combining virtual and real. The first thing that comes to mind is cyberpunk style. In many movies, such as Blade Runner 2049 and Ghost in the Shell, there are many holographic images in the city sky. I am deeply inspired and want to do a project that combines digital vision and reality.

Furthermore, during the lockdown, I have been eating a lot of food at home, and I want to lose weight. Then just before the start of school, I watched American horrible story 8. There is a witch called Coco. Her ability is to measure calories, which is very helpful for people's daily life. So I want to make an app that can get calorie numbers by taking a video of food.（https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJDVknDvZZM&t=63s）

    METHOD

I shot some food videos by the way when I was out shopping. I used AE to make an effect similar to the UI interface. What I want to show is that when people touch the food, and you can get calories. Of course this is just an app concept.

    RESPONSE

In response to this week's theme, I made an app concept that displays calories. I think this is a trend, and the combination of virtual and real with visual effects looks very futuristic. But I am a little unsure whether it fits the theme, because I think that once the app is implemented, in fact, no matter where you are, as long as you can touch the food, you can read out the data. The playfulness of this app lies in the convenient and fast reading of data and the futuristic sense of reading data in the air (similar to AR technology).

All my data come from USDA.(https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/search/list?qlookup=11352）