The Final Max Patch

My Final Max Patch had a total of 5 videos and a grab component working through the web cam; I had a video for each of Love, Joy, Sadness, Fear and Anger leaving only Surprise.

For each of the movies I used Max MSP to start the appropriate movie and generate effects suitable for the emotion. I used the cross-fade function in most instances to show the to and fro effect emotions have on us, the cross-fade between the real video or the 'reality' and the applied effect symbolises the way we get caught up in emotions and lose sight of what the reality is.

The one emotion that I did a bit differently was Surprise, I saw surprise less as an emotion of its own than a flicker between emotions before settling on one. For this reason I didn't give it a video of it's own but instead cross-faded each emotion and combined this with feed from a live web cam so that the wearers face would be shown along with constant flash of emotions.

I like my finished product I think it symbolises each of the emotions well and makes use of a number of effects to good use. However I feel that there might have been some better techniques I could have used to tidy up my patch, when handling so many movies the patch got very large with many overlapping patch cords making it hard to visually see what has been connected to what, this could potentially cause some issues if something is not working as you think it should it would be hard to find where it went wrong.