'PAN1C/MODE' is the tile of our first Live A/V / DVD Production as a group of 4. The final release of this project is planned for May 2004. Read more below.

The idea of the project was born during one of our location scoutings around Vienna happened in early 2003. While exploring the buildings and towers of the 'Mühle Brachlessing', an old abandoned corn mill down south of Vienna, we experienced a very distinctive, sometimes scary, but serious feeling something panic and painful could happened here in past. After an additional visit, several brainstorming sessions and hours of online research on panic disorder and anxiety attacks we finally developed the story and the storyboard based on our collected information, experiences and impressions.

>View pictures taken at the second visit of the mill in May 2003 >FlashMX Plugin? Pictures done by >Andreas Huber.

The story is about the tradegy of a young metrosexual trying to escape the ongoing moments of panic disorder. While facing his self-made mental loop of irrational fears he gets more and more into the stadium of irreparable disbelief, hate, depersonalisation, psychotropic drug- and self-abuse. He seems to be driven by something outside of the loop, luring him more and more into the dark suburbs of his most secret thoughts.

The visual style of the project was mainly driven by the first impressions of the different places at the mill. As structures of buildings and inside them are quite varying but being still simple and straight we have decided to develop a simple graphic style with a low color profile out of black, white and red. During the whole process a bunch of design sketches have been developed (see gallery below) and finally some of them were chosen for the different interactive effects, type- and graphic-animations.

>View some of the design sketches used for effects, animations... >FlashMX Plugin?

As we still want to keep any feature within the project under our live control, we are developing all animations, effects, etc. using mainly one of our live-tools (or all together) instead of using tools such as After Effects or similar. So sometimes a bit of 'idea-downgrading' due to restrictions in systems performance and technological issues is/was needed.