The real title of this installation is Exploration Television Addiction on Media Elements. So the shortcut will be “EXTVADDON MEDIA” installation.

Upper View

Side View

I dint have scanner so I decide to do my installation draft with Photoshop.

Draft Ideas

I have a habit on listing down my ideas on a recycle paper (behind grocery receipt) and throw it away.

Roughs Mind Map

Complete Mind Map

Thank to Han Wei for scanning my mind maps.

The concept on my installation is simple. In the Introduction or beginning of my installation, I was planning to show a video clip on TV screen. In the video, it will show the audience how a TV addicted individual looks likes.

Why the video clip is important in the installations? It is to show to the audience on how to identify an individual who is addicted to TV and show how they behave. In my installation there will be a set of TV, sofa, remote control and a photo frame.

Here its goes, whenever a user sits in on the sofa, the television will took 5 seconds to be broken (technical distortion with sound and some graphic elements).

After 10 seconds passed by, automatically a picture will be taken and the user image whoever sit on the sofa will appear on the hanging photo frame. Why the picture is needed? It is because, still images is just like a story boards that represent a moving still images that’s its inside the TV. With the images they can eventually tell the audience or user about a story of how, where and when a TV addiction begin.

How the users interact with the installation? There will be a remove control placed in front of the sofa, whenever the user touched the remote control, immediately the TV screen will change to a numbers of flying text which carries the message of what people though of TV addiction.

I finally found out that some of my articles I didn’t label it. No wonder there is missing articles.

This week to do-list:

1. SRI Chapter 3 submissions (Monday)
2. DM poster design (require half day)
3. DM 30 second video (require 2 days to complete)
4. DM Presentation (Thursday)
5. Exam (Thursday) require 1 week preparations
6. Update DM blog
7. Prepare SRI survey questions

Faster finish all to do-list, i want watch televisions.

After searching through hundreds of web and reading through articles for days, I finally found some interesting articles by expert to support my though.

According to Donna Michelle with reference to a research of James Lull, people do sometimes prefer audio as background music that it is a good creator of atmosphere. “By rendering a constant and predictable assortment of sounds and pictures which instantly creates a busy atmosphere” said Lull. People who feel lonely may find that sound background may fill up their loneliness.

Television can be used to entertain guests in the house when there is no alternative as well become their conversation topic. Certain viewers feeling guilty when expose to television because viewers find that watching tv is easily available if compare going to cinema.

In the Donna Michelle's article, television is also a form of escapism form our real-life situations and to approach relaxation. This may help certain individual to release frustrations and emotions. “Filling in time” said McQuail.

For more details:
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Students/dzj9401.html


Influence of Television

An article by Norman Herr a professor of science education had stated some viewer dependency symptoms:

1. An indiscriminate in viewing
2. Out of control when viewing
3. Angry with oneself and feeling miserable for watching too much
4. Sedative to TV

Article Link
http://www.csun.edu/science/health/docs/tv&health.html#influence


Human Emotions toward TV

Children are more likely to obese when they are exposing to TV for more than 4 hours per day indicate from a study in Journal of the American Medical Association. TV violence may lead to increasing children and teen’s aggression and they may become less awareness on suffering of others.

Articles Link
http://agebb.missouri.edu/news/ext/showall.asp?story_num=4770&iln=43