Experimental Project Progress 5

This weekend has certainly been a weekend! I decided to tone down my project just a little bit more, by just making it be about the t-shirt. Originally I had a kickstarter idea, but due to time limitations I've turned it into what I originally said I wanted to make- a t shirt that housed the idea of bringing awareness and hopeful chances of change in terms of endangered animals and their extinction. In doing so, my dialogue also changed just a little. 

"For as long as we can remember, humans and animals have co existed with one another. In a perfect world, we can say we have lived alongside these beautiful creatures peacefully and without conflict. This however, is not the case. As of right now, over ten species of animals are already facing possible extinction- and the year is only 2015.


According to a recent study published in Nature, 41 percent of amphibians, 26 percent of mammals, and 13 percent of birds face extinction. Another study shows that in 300 years, 75 percent of mammal species will be gone. It has been stated that humans are creating a mass extinction on the same scale as previous cataclysmic events- with 30 percent of all species facing elimination over the next four decades.

At SilverMoon Studios, we have designed an alphabetical shirt, with each letter representing an animal that is currently facing extinction. Throughout the day, the letters on the shirt disappear. This is done through a computer chip located in the shirt, and is also determined by how many hours have passed. For example, two hours equates to forty years. Depending on the species, the forty years passed represent the animal’s timely demise. As the day passes, you will go from a shirt with all animals on it to none, before it resets itself and the cycle repeats.

The SilverMoon organization is dedicated to promoting saving the endangered species, and bring awareness to how serious the situation is. It should also be noted that while this shirt’s function is to take away its design, this shirt can obtained without the computer chip. If you would like to contribute to this project, we are accepting funds at www.savethespecies.com. By creating this t-shirt, we hope to achieve awareness of this growing dilemma."

The final portions will be all text form, including things like "like us on facebook" and "share video" and so forth. I will also be sure to credit myself and Kevin MacLeod for being responsible for the audio.

Here are some more small snippets and portions of what I added to my piece and how I Went about it.

I put together a folder that housed a lot of mammal species, before using a photo template and incorporating each separate picture as its own "photograph" in GIMP. I then transferred the files into the AE file.

This was just my alphabet elaborated banner style, for purposes in the video to show that I had created letters from animal forms.

This is just an image logo filler I wanted to make for my "Silver Moon Studios" official 'group'. I may use this in the future for other things to be honest.

I have also been able to successfully incorporate video clips and put my alphabet to the test with pretending to be an actual t-shirt. I'm hopeful that my project will be good for tomorrow!