Initial Ideas:

Between us we had several initial ideas floating around:

- The interactive waiting room- the user would enter a room that would appear to be a waiting room, i.e. chairs along the walls, coffee table in the middle. However, instead of people waiting on the chairs, placed above are video screens, which will show people's faces. The user will be able to have a conversation with others around the room, influencing what happens through the volume of their voice.

Problems: There would be no real reason for the user to change the level of their voice, consequently not effecting the piece, would just be an automated conversation, no interaction!

- An interactive piece, where the user has an object that they can touch within the gallery space, which would effect what happens around them. e.g. a mannequin influencing pornography. Obviously, this was just an aesthetic with no real idea.

- Making something beauty out of something ugly. Do you have to be an artist to produce art? can every trade be beautiful? The idea behind this to make undesirable jobs into something that is actually beautiful. i.e. a dustbin man's morning is actually fun, animations placed on top of video to create a happier environment.

Problems: There was no real reasoning behind this, no context. It would be purely because it would look cool, and we kept arriving at rotoscoping, which was something that we wanted to avoid. A dustbin man's job is undesirable, so how could we make it look like its something beautiful. Animations of flowers and leaves etc may make the piece appear like its a recycling advert, which has be recreated time and time again.

- Nightmares, the modern fairy-tale

- Secret filming- hiding a camera in an object in a public space, e.g. a television showing a violent montage of photographs, the camera would be recording the audiences reactions.

- Projection onto buildings, again would just look cool. No real idea.

- Comic Books- Instead of seeing images in each frame of the comic, there would be a video. This would be similiar to something that may be seen in a music video, which we wanted to avoid.

- Terrorism- demolishing a building, or making it appear so! this would obviously be something on a ridiculously large scale, similar to something in a hollywood blockbuster. This would obviously be greatly expensive, but we liked the idea a lot. We decided that through the use of models of buildings and through the use of video and flash (new media) we would be able to make this appear to be realistic. This was our favourite out of all of the ideas so far. We decided to pursue this further and see what we arrived at.