Film+design+Concept


 * Film**


 * Introduction / Our Approach**

On the site, we are three teams of France / Québec students who have collaborated with the WUE project. Our mandate consists in an establishment of a space that can answer the needs defined by our collaborators, The WUE students (you). The site’s design is then the fruit of a cooperation of thoughts and ideas between partners in SL.

The very first sign that had to be done, in accordance with our reflection, is in the establishment of a common place for the FILM Island. This place is the common portal for the Island which is accessible with the teleport.
 * Our base concept**

The cube is the basis element used on the site. It’s a common language that has been used materialize the space and create a unifying link between each of the different teams. The cube has been used because it’s the first element to appear when we use the modeling module in SL. In brief, it has been used because it has permits us to exploit the possibilities of a simplified language.

The location of this common place has been chosen to get rid of the base concepts, normally associated with real life marks. The avatar “obligation” to get out of this place becomes a fundamental movement in a vertical impulse.

From this common place, the avatars can teleport themselves into the different projects aligned vertically around the axis. This axis stands as the spinal column of the site, as much as the representation of the displacements of the avatars into space. As a result of their teleportation, the avatars follow this axis and get conscious of the different spaces that surround them, which permit them to have a progressive approach and to familiarize themselves with the site. This axis doesn’t have any pedestal nor any beginning or end. It tends to sprawl to infinite. This concept of never-ending tower is theoretically possible in a virtual world since no structural constraint limits us.

We can find this idea of verticality in Fostino’s project of virtual house which organise his different functions along a vertical axis. This embroiled different ways of transportation which consider the avatar capability to fly. The vertical disposition liberates us from the constraints of the site and its limits. This concept permits to the different projects to be disposed spatially on the site and permits an overlap at diverse heights.