Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Back to Reality,Two Weeks Down

Monday the Sixth
Handed the design future briefs,initial thought
What?an ad campaign
Through further reading began to make sense.
Not only are we media students we have to see into the future and predict what will happen!
Thanks God for Science Fiction. Truth.
Later That Day
We began to discuss basic design concepts,really basic what colour conveys which kind of mood basically,the thirds so on.
Then we were given a task an advertisements campaign.
Jack and I choose to go with the visually impaired ad campaign.

the idea was to basically to take two people 1 blind the other seeing.
We were going to put them through basic everyday tasks.
Scene 1
the blind person and seeing person trying to prepare breakfast before work,the seeing person
burning himself trying to make a cut of tea and stumbling around the kitchen cursing etc.
the blind person has a routine and has no trouble with this task,humming away to himself "happy as Larry."

Scene 2
The next scene crossing the road to work.
you can picture the blind person knowing the safe route but the seeing person is having trouble and being very fearful and reserved.it would then go into very quick clips of first person camera to the different people. to distinguish between them the seeing persons could see a slimmer of light through his bands around his head and the other difference the seeing would have heavy breathing suggesting panic.
the blind persons view would have a heightened sense of sound so the traffic flying by would be much louder and obvious.
Eventually the seeing man gets crossed.

Scene 3
this is where the 2 people are set up in work in front of computers.
the boss man is giving out because the accounts are not finished and they're given a deadline in the next hour.
this is where the blind man takes flight ahead of the seeing person.
the seeing person has hes sight given back
the seeing person begins to sweat he camera flashing back between the clock on the wall and the seeing person,the deadline is near.

this is where the blind man prevails and keeps hes cool.
the ad would be aimed at blind people in the work place for employers.

basically saying blind people are just as valuable as anybody else.

In the afternoon we were asked to go search for good designs and bad design and what we like about them.

Other
Mood boards
Great way to get feed back and direction from a client



Tuesday the Seventh
with Rona basically we covered the same basic design principles as the day before.

the one thing i really enjoyed about this class was
Fibonacci Sequence
I've had major interest in this since i watched and bought a film called Pi

This is a very possible dissertation heading for me
The Fibonacci Sequence In Art
0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, etc

This opened a conversation between myself and Rona, i believe in it and i think the Irish Celts realised this also, they found the spiral to be the symbol of ever lasting and eternal life.
they carved it into standing stones all over Ireland but it has been found all over Europe.
Sunflower head displaying florets in spirals of 34 and 55 around the outside

The proof of this sequence is endless!

Design Rules Discussed
Diagonal Rule- Russian and Chinese propaganda

Circle= Warmth and protection

Patterns
broken patterns-repetition etc......



Wensday the eighth

Design Futures
Marshall McLuhan keeps coming up in conversation s borrowed a book from the library

Medium is the Message
"when the circuit learns your job, what are you going to do?"
so far a great read.

My ideas so far are basically a projection in theatre of a film where your headset reads your emotions and therefore chooses where you go next in the film.
the aim that most people will come with different perspective on the film because they have all experienced in some parts a different movie.

Micro chipped music you can update through blue tooth,also maybe a headset where you can watch films as you travel from your microchip.its powered by wireless power.

another interesting topic that popped up was the knock on effects of technology and peoples reliance and almost "addiction to technology."
the effects it will cause in future like psy wise.
that people eventually will grow so attached to there computers that people will eventually start having burials for they P.C.s.
a funny thought but a realistic 1 so say the least.







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