When creating the zoetrope, I knew that I would need something to go in it which would make sense as to why it was in there, going at a certain speed as well as being repeated over and over again.
After some long thinking, I decided that Pandora’s box would be more than perfect, as I have previously mentioned, I am very interested in the concept of time, and I am also interested in the idea of fixed points in time. I believe it is clear that the opening of Pandora’s box would most definitely be a fixed point in time due to the amount t had affected the world today as well as the fact that this idea would have happened anyway was time went on. So in other words, no matter what, Pandora’s box, was going to be opened.
This event will be happening over and over again if that point in time was stopped. hence why, in the zoetrope, the box is opened over and over again every time someone would pull the lever to show the animation. The lever sort of acts as a pause button, where we are pausing time into that exact moment for it to be happening over and over again. (This makes sense in my head, I am just struggling to convey it out into words in a proper way)
Another reason I realized Pandora’s box would be perfect is due to the fact that Pandora must have felt extreme guilt and sadness after having disobeyed strict orders and releasing so many bad and evil things onto the world, and personally whenever I do something embarrassing or regrettable (not that it would be anything as bad as this situation, I hope…), the thought of those actions always spin in my head within stopping, it’s almost like I am re watching myself make that same mistake over and over again.
The actual speed itself could have been a little bit slower, however everything happened in that moment so quickly that I kind of like the speed the zoetrope is going. Although it does mean the animation goes very quickly which does make it slightly more difficult to see.
Overall, I am very happy with how the whole setup turned out as I think, in my head anyway, that it all makes perfect sense to be the way it is.