As our theme is humans and technology, I came up with the idea of being controlled by technology, and by extension I thought about puppets. I wanted to use this as a metaphor for how technology has a constant presence in our lives and often pulls us away from things that we're doing. For example when I'm out with friends/family or doing work, if my phone goes off I'll usually stop what I'm doing and check it.
This lead to my decision to do my dual screen with one screen showing a person going about their day, and whenever they get distracted by their phone the one of the puppet's arms or legs gets pulled up.
My first thought from this was what should me puppet look like. It needed to be relatively simple as I knew I would need to animate it but I was quite interested in the idea of voodoo dolls and Mexican skulls, so I looked at images of them as a source of inspiration.
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| Mexican 'Day of the Dead' puppet |
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| Skeleton Marionette |
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| African Voodoo doll |
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