The whole experience is from the first view of the flower. The viewpoint has the life value of the flower. The sound could be like Hoopoe in Catching Fire, showing the emotions of the flower.

The flower grows from the earth and is later picked and taken home to the children of the family. The flower is planted in a pot by the child and is observed in the third person perspective of the family. The child studies, his mum and dad go out to work every day and his grandparents come to their house at weekends. (Here you can then watch childhood, middle age and old age.) Ways to increase interaction: for example the flower can wilt if it wants attention 🥀 so that the owner will come and water it and take it out into the sunshine. The owner can exercise in the sun while the flower basks next to him and watches him, and tries to do the same actions as the owner. Watch people’s lives from the flower’s first view and see their own life value. As time passes, the flower withers and the old man, for example, dies. The flower is eventually placed in the old man’s coffin, but as it is being placed, a wind blows and a petal floats up. The view follows the petal as it drifts higher up, overlooking the funeral, and finally drifts into the distance. The image fades and then reappears in the earth.

想法：

全程以花的第一视角体验。视角中有花的生命值。声音可以像《捉妖记》里面的胡巴，表现花朵的情绪。

花从土里长大，之后被人采摘回家，送给家里的孩子。花被孩子种在花盆里，以旁观视角观察着一家三口的生活。孩子学习、他的爸妈每天出门工作、爷爷奶奶会在周末来他们家。（这里就可以观看童年、中年、老年生活）增加交互的方法：比如花朵想让人关注就可以变蔫🥀，这样主人会来浇水，并且带它去阳光下。主人可以在阳光下运动，花朵在旁边晒着太阳并看着他，并且努力和主人一样做动作。以花朵的视角观看人们的生活，并且能看到自己的生命值。随着时间流逝，花朵逐渐枯萎，老人比如也去世了。花最后被放在老人的棺材里，但是在放的时候，有风吹过，一朵花瓣飘起来。（花朵的第一视角看到自己飘起来，但是花的枝干还在坟墓里）视角跟随花瓣向高处飘，俯瞰葬礼，最后飘向远处。画面渐隐，黑屏。然后又出现在土里。

Amber Zhang:

Keywords: Presence, life cycle, Nature

Concept: user experiences options from different natural creatures.

My idea: the initial scene would start from in the abstract universe but correlate with natural spaces. The start point might launch from the abstract universe scene that a soul shape human would appear. The player would pass the abstract universe scene where consist by abstract trees, grass, mountains etc. There would contain three doors that each door would lead player to the next different scene to nature(Our group discussed the idea to open the door from a dark corridor to enter to the next scene when the first and second meeting. The initial open-door idea to go to next environment for our group project I remember should came from the Xinyue Lin or Qiandai Sun) The first door would be the scene that player would as the flower from a seed to bloom and might until nature decay. The second door the player might as a human that might experience the infant, young, old three age span. The third door the player might be a bee, would fly over the earth’s ground. The person’s life span and flower could still prolong the previous our group project finalised idea, and for the human stage the detailed part, I might prefer my previous suggested idea on discussion board1 from the blog(From Amber Zhang part on discussion board1: “My brainstorming suggestions for the three stages of life span: my brainstorming idea would base on the group discussion result yesterday(Wednesday): the group project would only focus on one of the life span about the young age to explore, and pick up objects only for rest of ages(infant and old) , I think for the young age could represent via one scenario: the main character could display in lecture space: the scene exploration design could be: the sunlight could be warm outside and flash light shining from window, the leaves could drop from the tree, it could be the Autumn season. The main character would start the view from setting on the chair and books and notes on the table (the view angle displays the book pages on table). The main character enables to stand up and walk around the lecture room. There could be notes on whiteboard, but no other people would be in the lectures. The lecture might be a biology class; the whiteboard could display sketches drawing of flowers with key points and learning knowledge, and one reminder on whiteboard could display: a test on Thursday. The main character enables to walk towards whiteboard to check the contents of knowledge on whiteboard and explore the entire lecture room. The lecture room could be big with basic devices: computer, projector, big window, desks and chairs, whiteboard. The background voice: the main character could hear other people’s talking from outside of lecture room, the ring bell sound, the background noise sound.When the time duration approaches to time limits (for instance: 3 mins), the scene transection trigger would display. And the voice might appear as well to tell main character the guidance to move to next scene.”) . The bee’s scene might end from flying motion. After each scene ends, the player would go back to the initial scene: the abstract universe to alter back to the soul to choose again. However, I might suggest each player merely have 15 mins to explore the entire story instead to loop the option to experience tedious.

After the soul transferring the different role from different nature species, the three different life spans could be considered to represent how the presence is performed. Meanwhile, the three format creatures are the three diverse ways to demonstrate the life cycle.

Storyline

1.Flower perspective to Human

When the flowers decompose and float into the air, it will fly through a window and enter a room. Inside the window is a room for a child. There is a bouquet of flowers in child’s room. And the perspective will become third-person view and it will show some important stages in the character’s whole life. Like in his graduation ceremony, he will hold the flowers. When he has a baby, he bought his wife flowers. Or they take the flowers on a family picnic. And when he died, his children planted a seed in front of his grave, and then it begin a new cycle of life.

In this setting, the flower is not brought to the funeral at first, but are simply blown away by the wind.

2. Other life cycle style

还在想！

Amber Zhang:based on the group individual part, my individual part is to present how the flower bloom demonstration from vision. There are two different camera perspectives: one is from the bird view angle to demonstrate the flower bloom moment. Another is from the flower perspective.

I modelled, animated, lighted, and rendered this simulation animation for the group project stage1 from the flower perspective. This is the final render animation. And made one new flower to import Unity for my group member Qiandai Sun’s group project part for Unity demonstration.

Qiandai Sun:

Because the flower grows up in the garden at the beginning of our project, so I built a Unity scene of a garden, added some decorations and sunset skybox in it and imported the flower model built by Amber into it, and added a first-person perspective to watch it up closely.