PROPOSAL- data visualization assignment

The compulsion to seperate youself from everyday life seems to be a pursuit that most humans share. As an escapist society, we seem to turn towards cinema with a thirst for sexuality and violence. Thus distilling ourselves, if only for a moment, to our most primitive desires. I plan to organize and visualize data in such a way that the quantity and intensity of these particular themes in cinema is clear within in a specific grouping of actors that I will select. To emphasis the primal enthusiasm that manifests itself in the viewer I intend to create a hybrid similar to the centaur, as a representation of a human with animalistic characteristics.

Compiling Data from IMDB, or the internet movie database, processing will filter information based on 1 input, that being "lead actor". As IMDB allows for specific keyword searches applicable to acting careers rather than information only specific to a single movie it would be possible to search for keywords related specifically to violence and sexuality over the duration of that specific actors portfolio. There would be a plethora of keywords broken down out of those two categories, and each of those specific keywords would be related to a specific animal swatch. The intensity of the world, or the amount of times a specific word would appear for that actor would directly effect the color of the swatch. The images would be pre edited and would be something that would be limited to certain words, so the amount of combinations available would be restrained. The final images would obviously be a misshapen and contorted hybrid, as the positioning in the sketch would be controlled, yet the swatches would not always be perfectly aligned due to size and shape constraints. But I don't necessarily see to much fault in this as it could be favorable to the outcome of the final piece.