I booked time in the green screen studio in order to film the moving image of the bird in the cage, and saved that as a movie file. We were going to isolate the moving image by screening out the green background, and import our scene as a continuous movie into Processing. The idea was that you could speed up or slow down the spinning motion in accordance with how fast you flicked your mouse.
Then we made several realisations, which all seemed to stem from one another, and the whole concept changed and found more solid ground. The original concept was to create a little "game" that required very little skill, no brain power and would last "just a minute", hence the blog's title. The idea was that you would be able to suspend whichever screen-based task you were engaged in – e-mails, spreadsheets, cost revisions, etc – and just allow your brain to do nothing but stare at a nice image on the screen that you were able to control.
But we soon realised that we could do more with the idea. Here the development process splits in two: the narrative and the technical specification
And we also discovered that we could not get movies (least not the way we made them) to function in Processing (plus they weren't running at the right frame rate, and the action of the twisting bird/cage was too quick). So we chucked out the green screen movie and re-shot the whole scene as much sharper stills, and cut out the background to isolate the bird/cage images. This gave us greater flexibility and control when importing the images into Processing.
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