Students/Yuan Pan
MIDTERM PROPOSAL
TRICK PEEPHOLE
I want to create an object with a peephole installed on it. What makes this peep-hole object alluring is that there will be a light emanating from the hole, temping people to look inside in hopes of finding out what is going on in there. However, the trick of it is that the light is controlled by a photoresistor. The light inside the object will only stay lit if the photoresistor detects light entering through the peephole and into the object. Once someone lowers an eye in attempt to peer through the peephole, they block out that incoming light. The curious viewer becomes the switch that turns off the light, making it impossible to ever see what is actually inside the object!
HELLO.
Yuan [pronounced yu-ohn] Pan is a second year from John Muir College majoring in media film. He was born on July 20th, 1990 and grew up in Irvine, California. He now plans to switch from third to first person narration because I think its easier this way.
I've been interested in all things visual for as long as I have existed. As a young child, I started by expressing my interests through the simple act of two-dimensional art-making: drawing. However, as I grew up I discovered more & more creative outlets to explore my visual interests. From elementary school to high school, my interests expanded into painting, sculpting, designing, crafting, and assembling 2-D, 3-D, and digital objects and subjects from all over the place.
By the time I was 15, I was severely confused as to what exactly my professional interest was to be, and I was beginning to worry... but then along came my first camera. I was instantly obsessed with photography... this ability to compose, capture, and manipulate vision. But not long after I started playing with photography, I began to yearn for something more and thus looked into the possibility of animating my still images. Very quickly I developed a passion for combining image and sound and articulating them over a timeline--and thus creating video. Since then I have stuck with film as my expressive medium of choice; however my past explorations of drawing/painting, designing, crafting/assembling--the conceiving of an idea and very hands-on act of carrying it out/bringing it to reality--still very much remains in me. Thus, although my primary interests are in film, I do intend to/have been incorporating the designer/craftsman side of me into my video work.
However, throughout my childhood explorations I never really ventured into the realm of electronics--a realm of boundless potential that I feel I can not go on any longer without becoming acquainted with. I hold a lot of excitement for this class and familiarizing myself with electronics because I know it will broaden my creative abilities/possibilities in converting ideas into an actuality; and this in turn will broaden my capabilities/capacity as a filmmaker.
THE HEADPHONE
THE COMPUTER KEYBOARD
THE SURGE PROTECTOR
THE AMPLIFIER
THE SMOKE DETECTOR
THE CAMERA
