Final Project

My project will emulate the behavior of a socially awkward person in a party/gallery setting. I want it to be placed in the corner of a room. The piece, physically, is a rectangular television (NOT flat screen) sitting on top of a right angle triangular prism/pedestal. When a person walks past it, within the range of 150 cm, the piece begins the interaction by cueing the first video clip. The video is a close shot of a person’s head that begins to tell an anecdote. The story is odd and inappropriate but, I think, very funny. The viewer is either put off and uninterested in the piece/story or stays to listen. If the person is uninterested, as they walk away, the motion sensor detects this and cues the next clip. The next clip begins at twice the volume and is meant to grab the attention of the person who was just standing there again.
The idea is that the piece behaves like a clingy socially awkward person. They are planted in the corner, just wanting to gab, afraid of mingling. When you try and leave the piece, it calls out with more force. It keeps trying to top itself until you stay. When you leave, it waits. Its quiet and deflated until a new person walks by. In an attempt to mask the many quick cuts, I will give the person a twitch that plays during the story. Even if the person stays to listen, the twitch will be incorporated. It is definitely activated every time the motion sensor detects someone walking away and then segways into the next part of the story with a LOUD first few seconds.
The motion sensor will be mounted in a red bowtie placed just under the T.V. at the top of the pedestol.
(please excuse video quality. It's only this bad here)
This is what it is doing when there is no on near it:



Here is a video sequence that is one possible interaction you could have with it:



Here is another: