ALA
Exploration in Non-Linear Documentary
As interactive media becomes more accessible to creatives, opportunities for new storytelling methods are possible in all of our traditional genres. What changes in the experience of an audience when they have the agency to look at as much or as little of the work as they please.
To explore this, as a part of Emerson College's Advanced New Media Projects showcase, I created a non-linear documentary following the childhood of my grandmother and her experience growing up in 1950's Puerto Rico. Through the use of carpetas (secret police files used at the time containing intimate personal information) and 3D photographs, audiences can gain a glimpse into her life in San Juan, her relationship with nature and growth, and the education boom for women at the time.
3D PHOTOGRAPHY
Using deep-learning based models on RunawayML, I was able to take archival photography and both colorize and generate depth maps to create 3D photographs that could be used within the experience.
These "3D Photographs" are actually 3D models that were generated using these depth maps, and after projecting back textures, the final effect when scaled to the right size brings one back to how it may have felt being there at the time.
