Week15 Interactions Between the 3 Levels

Representational
The role it plays in the whole is that you can put pictures faces of people you know and this program makes then dance around and sing. Its been very popular during Christmas time and it makes people laugh at seeing others they know dancing around. Its something that you send to your friends, so it also works as a greeting card,  "i was thinking of you." The portraits of people you know are abstracted by the body of the elf body dancing and communicates to viewers as a fun way to say happy holidays as a functional purposes. It makes people happy to watch, if you haven't done it, you should because its very funny. it makes for a great multi level design and idea because there is a huge amount of great creativity, i found myself asking hey why didn't i think if that?! And to use vocabulary, it's assignment is to greet friends and send them something for the holidays but manipulating the whole holiday card into a new humorous way of receiving a note by using portraits of people you know.

Abstract

The role abstraction plays is the since that these bodies don't belong to the faces of the people you know. And its dancing around and singing Christmas carols and this gives a very humorous impact. Again, makes it very funny for the viewer. It also incorporates three different types of media, a still photograph (the face)  filming (because the body are actual dancing people) but the graphics and decorations are all computerized. for the idea to work you need the abstract combination of the face on the fake body,
Symbolic

you need to know what Christmas elves are, Santa little helpers! we seem to think everyone knows this but its very possible that other cultures don't really know about Santa clause and his elves at the north pole. I think that to our culture this is very funny, but its so possible that other cultures might think its still funny if they used pictures of people they new, but wont understand the context of it being Christmas time and sending a greeting to a friend or family member in celebration of it. It is a cheery and fun way to send a card for the holidays.






 

Representational= faces of people you know + the bodies of elves dancing
Abstract= the two together
Symbolic=Christmas greeting card, our culture knows it, others might not have any idea whats going on.