For this project we were assigned to create a character that we picked randomly from a hat. Our character was supposed to be a tech savvy middle schooler who was always tinkering with gadgets. Our character was also shy around new people but loyal to her friends. The number one goal for my group was to try our best to represent what our character loves to involve herself in and the things she loves.
We named our character Alice Rose, but she liked to go by AR. She had a few close friends and her favorite music genre was shoegaze or game soundtracks. Her room was meant to represent her as it was painted her favorite color and covered in things she loves, such as: posters of her favorites bands and games, gadgets she tinkers with, and her computer she makes models and codes on.
We created a model of Alice's room on canva and then moved it to scratch to code a program to make it interactive. The way her room became interactive was when people clicked on items around her room it would give a short description of why it's placed in her room. We also brought a lego robot that one of our group members had at home to show that Alice enjoys playing around with robots like those and coding them. Another example is the playlist we created for her; we made the playlist with artists that fall under the same music Alice enjoys listening to.
Most of the representation for Alice was done on the computer, therefore we had 3 computers and the robot we brought in for tactile portion of the project. We made sure the computers were all playing the playlist in the background so people could listen to the type of music she likes. Each computer was put on a different part of our project. One computer would be on the powerpoint, one would be on the scratch project, and the third computer was on her character description.
To develop Alice we used othering based on her interests and her social life. Alice was meant to not be very popular since she was shy, but nonetheless be very loyal to the friends she did have. We imagined that Alice did not fit in very well since she is a girl tech savvy in a world where boys typically are associated with technological careers and hobbies. Furthermore we tried creating the idea that Alice is a stereotypical "weird" kid.
Our process of creating her was pretty good. We each assigned each other a portion of the project mostly equally, as one of us had to do 2 parts of it because it was an odd number. For the tactile portion we used the robot that one of our members had at home. For the audio portion the scratch project contained stings when you clicked on the objects and I made the playlist for Alice. The character description was also created by me and I just listed her interests and how she acts. We made the room on canva using images from canva or images we found online. The mood board was also made on canva with the same process of finding images as Alice's room. Overall the project was pretty good and put together.
The scratch program: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1232512039
Alice's room:
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