For this project, we were assigned to create an interactive station that immerses others into the world of a character. This needed to include elements of audio, setting design (Ex: character's bedroom), character's appearance/costume, and tactile objects that represent the person.
Our character (Brady Beckham): A high school athlete with a secret passion for poetry. Torn between expectations and self-expression, he learns to balance ambition with authenticity.
One of our team's goals for this assignment was to create a physical journal that symbolizes Brady's confliction between poetry and football. We included drafts of poems he has written to express his vulnerable and soft side. However, we also incorporated his football side, as there are sticky notes inside the journal with reminders to go to practice. The main goal was to express his complex personality from the look and style of his bedroom, to written love letters from his girlfriend, Gia.
Brady Beckham is a high school senior who plays football, while also having a secret passion for poetry. He is a White teenager with black hair and blue eyes, from Michigan. He first got into poetry from his girlfriend, as she encourages him to go to Stanford. Although he is an amazing writer, he is also a pro football player. For this reason, his dad would like him to go pro at Yale. This complex decision is going to be tough for Brady because he got accepted into both Stanford and Yale.
Examples of Brady's persona:
Mood Board
Bedroom Design
Brady's Spotify playlists
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3s8IaGIW3pkCyWddG7xhbO?si=85b86266fb5f4a8b
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0lz05rotWNidE2OST3vYS5?si=a134d0cf1beb47d4
To display and organize our station, we utilized one computer for each element of Brady's persona. In total, we had four computers on display that included the mood board, bedroom design, costume design, and his Spotify playlists. We then had our textile objects laid out on top of our desks. These objects included Brady's journal, his football jersey, a love letter from his girlfriend, and his acceptance letters from both Stanford and Yale.
When developing our character, we based him off of the stereotypical football player. For example, they always have food, a football, and trophies in their room, and a pretty girlfriend. However, we also implemented stereotypes of a poetry boy. This includes, always writing everything down, having a bunch of scrap papers in their room, enjoying musicals like Hamilton, and always listen to music for inspiration.
I believe our group did a great job in creating Brady Beckham's character. Our textile elements such as the journal and acceptance letters were interactive and creative. Though I wish we could've explained or expanded more on how significant getting accepted to both colleges added more tension between Brady's decisions. We had the physical letters but we could have added a page in the journal where Brady is expressing his feelings about which college he wants to go to. Other than that, our project came out as we wanted it to and many other groups enjoyed our station.
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