I received some really useful feedback on the ideas for my final project voyager film.

It was clear that there is going to be a challenge to bring the joyous, fun, playful elements to the film, so many of the themes that I want to explore can quickly become gloomy. It is precisely this line that I want to explore.

During the discussion I was asked a question about being vegan. I hadn’t linked this to my thoughts on this project but it is a useful insight, I believe that all life is sacred, it is something that for me adds complexity to the human experience, to live we must consume and destroy others. This is a fundamental universal principle, I’m going to come back to entropy again later.

There was some discussion about how I will approach the practical aspects of the project. I am still working on the synthetic voice concept mentioned previously and have been asking questions about the gender of the voice (I’m going to come back to the cyborg manifesto later as well).

I have been researching archive of the images, which I found on the Kino project, and plan to include some of that.

A model of voyager, possibly 3D printed.

Mylar foil.

Super8 film

My own voice

After a really useful discussion with a colleague at work it was suggested that my voice should play a part in the film, as I am the one that is anthropomorphising voyager. I think this could have an additional layer in that my – regional – voice will not sound epic or sublime, but folksy and mundane, this might contrast well with the more ethereal synthesis.

I might have found a title – I don’t think the Earth is so still. It was a joke in a message that another colleague pointed out might work.