Video+as+Surveillance

=Video as Surveillance=

[|http://books.google.com/] This is a chapter from a book call //Visual Culture: An introduction// written by John A Walker and Sara Chaplin. This chapter illustrates how the act of looking was further emphasized with the video surveillance system. It discusses how people "look" and why people "look" at each other and at other things. It also discuses what surveillance does for those who "look" or "gaze" at other things.
 * Idea#1: Looks, the Gaze and Surveillance**

1. Present Surveillance - history of it - how it changed history > Rodney King, 911 - Vietnam War - how it invades privacy - identity thefts - when video cassettes invented, Surveillance boomed - everything from law enforcement to traffic control and divorce proceedings. - the Value of surveillance (in stores etc.) - Nanny Cam - Surveying your home - redefines video surveillance for the future - Digital surveillance faster, clearer, more efficient 2. The Internet revolution (in video surveillance) - "We can reach around the world or across the street with surveillance equipment" - Self-publishing - satellites (aka. eyes in the sky) - Streaming Videos (gave rise to peek-a-book porn sites which uses the same surveillance technology) - Video Archiving (eg. YouTube)
 * Idea #2:** **Surveillance in the past and in the present (History of Surveillance)**

I want to make my interactive site more as a game of searching and learning about surveillance and how it affects you and me.
 * Idea #3:** **Surveillance as a Game**

I want to maybe incorporate how surveillance is pretty much all around us at any given time, anywhere and yet we may not know it which is similar to everyday people. If we have eyes, it is meant to see and thus we as humans are in ourselves a form of video surveillance inwhich our memory is the video cassette that records what we see.
 * Idea #4:** **Surveillance as simply someone looking... gazing**

The game will seem like your every move is being watched and whatever you do will lead you to a different "time period" or "event". You will have to watch Youtube videos and solve some questions (maybe). There will be a timeline to which you can jump forward or backwards.
 * Idea #5:** **Surveillance in a Game which incorporates information (history) and videos (from Youtube)**

For this idea, I'm going to use visuals that incorporate imagery that makes one think. The images will have a psychological side and will incorporate how surveillance is created by one's curiosity. If no one was curious in looking and finding out what happens in public areas or even to find evidence, video surveillance would have never even been created. We are surveillance creaters and yet we try to hide from surveillance and try to defy it's presence. This is the idea behind my site. It will be based on the popular phrase: "Curiosity killed the cat."
 * Final Idea:** (Project Summary)
 * Surveillance as a process of development (could be psychological) from past to present and to future**

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[|Interact2-Web.jpg] This is the initial site map I created which was based on the "Curiosity killed the cat" theme and the game idea. I wanted to create a problem for each important date and a few solutions for each problem. The viewer will then have to pick their route etc.

[|Site_map.png] This is my final site map. The words in UPPERCASE are the main ideas of each page. Some pages have video clips from YouTube and other may have images.

Screen Caps
[|Screen Caps.pdf]