I have just had a wonderful simple idea inspired from where's wally, it involves having an optical illusion where wally or another character is so blatently in front of you but you have to take a step back to see it all!
"Today's child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterises the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified pattern subjects and schedules" - McLuhan 1967
A short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today. this includes a large amount of statistical aspects (collected & analyzed by the students themselves) such as how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams & what kinds of changes they will experience in their lifetime.
while not using any infographical illustrations, the presentation of the many numerical facts is simple but convincing.
created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University.
The subject matter and purpose of the design should be self defined. This project is about attempting to get students to extend the perceptual boundaries of what interaction and technology can achieve. Due to technical constraints all final designs will have to be demonstrated on screen, so any designs for non-screen concepts will have to be simulated via keystrokes on the keyboard. Students will also be required to write a 500 word rationale and description of the artefact detailing the icontext of the piece and how you responded to the brief, audience, location etc. and its technical parameters.
Deliverables:
1. Completed screen-based artefact;
2. Reflective 500 word rationale;
3. Workbook illustrating research etc;
Submission Dates:
Friday 18th January 4.00 pm VPA Office
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So... any ideas?
So again quite a challenging brief, but nothing more than I would expect from a BA (Hons) Multimedia Degree! We are really thrown in the deep end with this one, mainly because of the sheer vastness of the world of interactivity. I think the best steps for me are to:
1) Analyse the project brief in full (write notes in sketchbook).
2) Brain Storm any ideas about interactivity (research defintions, history of interactivity, forms of interactivity etc. etc.)
After this tutorial we had a guest visitor(Alistair) from Kerb - http://www.kerb.co.uk/.
This company has always specialised in Flash and have worked for some prestigous companies, you can see whom they have worked for on their website.
There were many interesting points raised in this lecture:
- Flash CS3 (latest edition at this present time) is essentially not much different than Flash 8, maybe even a little harder to use. Its main positive aspect according to Alistair is that it includes Action Script 3, a much more adventurous Action Script program which allows you to do many more effects (if you know how to use coding!)
- If you are going for a job within the Multimedia Industry then its good to show your versatility in more areas than one but it is good to have a specialise area.#
- Kerb create Viral Marketing casual Games in general, some useful tracking links for Viral Marketing are:
There main audience is Women in their 20's and 30's and within the casual game indsutry their is approximately $2.5 Billion surrounded it. So that's why all these Flash games are around!!!
- For a Flash Based Game, Kerb and most Flash Game Designers will have approximately 4 frames with different (essential scenes):
1) Check - Checks version of user's flash and upgrades if necessary
2) Pre- Loader - Does exactely what it says on the tin and loads all assets.
3) Assets - Assets brought in.
4) The Game - Bring on the fun...
Some other interesting links for Flash (involving Physics Libraries) are:
The average Flash based game is set at 25 Frames p/s.
To contact Alistair you can visit his Blog - www.stdio.co.uk
1) Friese Green Gallery: http://www.finetuned.org/index.php?relay
2) Grand Parade Uni Gallery: William Kentridge http://www.brighton.ac.uk/kentridge/
3) Pheonix: Pause http://www.phoenixarts.org/
Today we visited the above exhibitions around Brighton, they were all very interesting and different in there own ways, a lot interesting perspectives on interactivity as well which may be useful for our up-coming project on interactive design. We aim to go through this brief in tomorrow's session.
I saw a quote from William Kentridge in the Grand Parade uni Gallery on Form which I could really relate to my last project on Design Futures (origam-E idea), if anyone has this quote please add a comment or let me know because it would be v.nice to have it!
From researching Origami i came up with the idea of an entertainment product called Origam-E. This idea came around from my research on the following:
- Electronic Paper (SHOW LINK)
- Foldable Origami Batteries (SHOW LINK)
- Muscle Wires (SHOW LINK)
- Stephen Thaler (Robotic Cockroaches and Creativity Machine) (SHOW LINK)
I initially decided to create the presentation using Adobe After Effects, however I now feel Macro-media flash is the best option because it has certain effects such as shape tween and motion tween which better suits the concept and idea behind the presentation.
- (Right) Image of robotic ant with muscle wires.
