Beginning Concept

Right so it has been a couple of days since my last post and I think I have a good starting point for my project. I am going to play around with the emotion of compassion. My idea is to have some sort of animal familiar to people and one that you could find I don't know.. cute? or loveable? and that animal is damaged. It has a chestplate with a regulator in it and this when charged allows the animal to be OK, it can live. However when not charged, the animal then becomes lethargic, dropping to the floor and look as though he is dying. To involve the audience with this a-life character it will be on them to keep him alive. They will need to apply pressure to some sort of device which I will design later and this will bring the character to a state of well being. Obviously they will not want to stand there forever keeping this character alive, but can they let go and let the character suffer? How long might they stay for? How much compassion will they feel for the poor little guy?

I will now do some sketches of ideas for my animal. Post again soon!