Quarantine Thoughts

Credits:

Created By: Zac Bazzoli

Special Thanks:
Mom and Dad, PW Short General Store, Kasella Acain, Will Nguyen, Chad Tetzlaff, Ethan Andaloro, Will Burkart, Jacob Montgomery, Susie Scheer, Erin Verdi, John Colette, and MOMELOVE

Projection Dates:
Part 1: Closed for Business: April 28 - May 22, 2020
Part 2: Loading...: May 14 - May 22, 2020
Part 3: News Cycle: May 14 - May 22, 2020
Part 4: Unbalanced Diet: May 23 - June 5, 2020
Part 5: Together LLC: May 23 - June 5, 2020

In early 2020, the world was put on pause due to the spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. During this period of extended isolation, we began to see the world in a different perspective. These are a few of these so-called “Quarantine Thoughts.”

This project acted as my senior thesis as I completed my BFA in Motion Media Design. This 5-part projection series was done in the store front of PW Short General Store from April to June of 2020. Below you will find the full pieces as seen in the documentation video.

Programs: Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, MadMapper, RedGiant

Tags: Experiential, Motion, Projection-Mapping, 2D, Cinematography, Glitch, Analog, Series, Thesis

Part 1: Closed for Business

Projected April 28 - May 22, 2020

This analog glitch piece looks at the beginning of the COVID-19 shutdown, focusing on businesses targeting the tourism market and showcasing their response to the crisis. The goal of the part was to abstract the eerie feeling of emptiness.

Part 2: Loading…

Projected May 14 - May 22, 2020

During this time of self-isolation, we began to shift our focus to a digital social environment. Many began to experience one of the most substantial hurdles of the modern world, the lack of universal internet access. The constant loss of the internet became a significant problem for me, especially with the growing reliance as quarantine continued.

Part 3: News Cycle

Projected May 14 - May 22, 2020

There are a lot of uncertain in the world, especially when there is a global crisis. Information and misinformation get spread around and become twisted until factual data becomes lost in translation. This scanography piece hopes to show the change of narrative as it becomes apart that we lose sight of what knowledge supposedly gained.

Part 4: Unbalanced Diet

Projected May 23 - June 5, 2020

As the days turn into weeks and weeks turn into months, the desire for self-care begins to dwindle, and the convenience of an unhealthy diet becomes attractive to some. The goal was to showcase bight neon signage and their pull towards this growing lack of self-care with a balanced diet.

Part 5: Together LLC

Projected May 23 - June 5, 2020

Emphasis on commercial media began to grow as a direct response to the global crisis. We began to stream content from a plethora of platforms, but a trend in the advertising on said platforms emerged. From multi-billion dollar companies that were in no danger of shutting their doors, the words “together” we had seen in hundreds of advertisements over the beginning months of the pandemic. This piece is inspired, but the indirect associating with profiting off COVID-19, having the bottom line be financial compensation.