For this project I designed a user-unfriendly interface. Working across a range of Adobe Creative Cloud softwares, I composed a video run-through perspective of a mobile virus being downloaded then hijacking a device. The brief I was given was: Reinterpret a classic piece of literature for a modern audience. I chose the Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka- an absurd story in which a man wakes one day to discover he is a beetle. This inspired the idea of a computer being taken over by a bug. AKA a virus, intended to disturb the monotony of everyday life for the victim, disrupting cellular communications and highlighting our increasingly complete dependance on computerised devices.

The video to the left shows the phone screen of a curious passer-by, who scans a QR code from a brightly coloured, obscure poster, pasted on the side of a bridge. A pop-up visual appears on their screen - ‘The Modulation brought to you by the Kafka Group’. The virus downloads, and the device’s interface is immediately altered. The victims camera view is eroded by moving green blocks of pixels, undermining its’ functionality. In the camera roll previously captured images are corrupted one by one. The home-screen design is unrecognisable, and when a text comes through to the device, the keyboard is revealed to be obsolete too, severing communication. A final pop-up compels the user to forward the bug, rooting the viral network.