Process

We brainstormed for a bit, but none of the ideas we came up with would work with the five second constraint. Plus, Kaalen really wanted to do something with audio. We ended up deciding on audio pareidolia. We then had to decide how we were actually going to implement the project. Initially, we wanted to do a full poem. We tossed around some ideas involving homophones and rap music among other things. We soon realized that creating a complex poem that would work for the project was a bit too ambitious, so we scaled it down to something more manageable. The first phrase that we came up with that seemed to work was "can't eat candy." Eventually, Kaalen came up with "Hear it, said illusion. Fear it, head delusion," which we decided to use. These two lines were in line with the idea of confusion produced by our project. When creating the audio track, a problem we had was how human it sounded. In order to remedy this, Kaalen manually created a track that looked very similar to actually readings of the phrase. This lead to a less human sound. When doing the visual component, Brandon imported Lucy's images into Adobe Premiere. He then set keyframes and made transitions, while also syncing the audio such that the whole thing would loop. The audio track plays twice per loop, once per line. There is no difference between the audio played for each line, thus allowing the brain to do all the work.