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Final Year Multimedia Project

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In this section you will introduce and describe the project and this section will typically include the aim and motivation behind the project, the domain where the project is  situated, and a synopsis of the key design and technical aspects of the project.  

This project is a 3D VR adaptation of Gerard Manley Hopkin’s poem, “Spring”.  Our aim is for this project to be an ehibition piece which could be exhibited in museums such as the National Gallery of Ireland as it is both a piece of art but also a great learning tool when it comes to poetry and to some extent Irish folklore. 

We came up with the concept for this project due to our belief that poetry is not viewed by most people as particularly interesting (this is often due to how poetry is taught in schools) or in other cases some may believe that enjoyment of poetry can be quite snobbish. The point of this project is to prove that poetry can be enjoyed and interpreted by anyone once it is given a chance, we hope to achieve this by presenting it in a less rigid and boring environment. We also wanted to bring more attention to Irish myth as it is often over shadowed by more popular mythology such as Norse or Greek despite being just as interesting and exciting. 

The VR technology used for this project allows users to more easily visualise the poetry by having the environment around them directly reflect the mood and visual descriptors within the poem. The users also get to explore a fictional environment similar to real life but with fun concepts taken from Irish mythology, which makes the experience deeper than just a literal representation of a poem. This 3D environment is a forest landscape made up of five levels which the users must journey through while listening to a reading of the poem. Each level is based on a different section of the poem and utilises themes and imagery from its respective section in order to create an immersive walk through experience to help users with visualising the poetry.


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