Ideation & Prototype

Video Experiment - 5/8/19 11:49am

GitHub Code: https://github.com/gt245/Creative-Coding/tree/master/Going%20Green

Continuing on with my staged piece, I cleaned it and made several changes until bringing it to our dance competition. This was our tech run before our final run. I will be posting the final run through once the official video is out, marking the end of my first choreographed set. 

We took our choreo and staged the entire piece, planning the formations, made varieties within our choreo, and changed parts to fit the dance overall.

The program still needs some fine-tuning, so I’ll be working on it so that it works on laptops and phones. 

I attended a talk about the different tools of storytelling by Umakanth Thumrugoti, a storyboard artist from Disney. He talked about how people go about creating a Disney animated film’s story, starting from ideas to storyboard prototypes and constant revision before it’s approved and the animating team starts to animate it. One of the most important things he mentioned that stuck with me is the use of characters. A good story needs good developed characters that people can relate or empathize with. Although this topic may seem unrelated to my project, I decided to take this knowledge from this talk to make sure I created a story within each of my flyers whether it was negatively reinforcing or positively reinforcing with the images I chose. I tried to make sure there was a character (human or other live being) aspect that people could relate and empathize with to create an impactful message for onlookers so that these flyers would stand out more from other dull instructional flyers that are often found on dorm floors. In the future if I want to go further in developing these negatively reinforcing or positively reinforcing messages, I could create a short video with a story to influence others to distribute waste properly. In this process, I would take Thumrugoti’s process of creating a storyboard and developing a character within the film to make sure the point of how distribution of waste is important gets delivered correctly to the audience.

We finished and taught our choreo from week 9!

Ideas for my projects. 

This reading discusses how overtime in history, we’ve begun to use design to fulfill our hopes instead of our dreams or creativity, and I completely agree with this point. Upon realizing that we’re running out of resources on Earth, realizing that we’re overpopulating in some areas, realizing the effects of global warming, and etc, we’ve begun to shift our focus to help fix these problems and to “hope” to mitigate these issues. Is this a bad thing? No, definitely not; in fact, I think it’s necessary and just as important as designing for our dreams, because if we don’t find ways to preserve our environment and our overall lifestyle, we won’t have the resources in the future to even fuel our dreams and imagination. As someone who also prefers to design off of my imagination instead of hopes, I do recognize that it’s these designs for “hope” that helped me be able to become the designer I am today. After reading these chapters, I believe that “hope” and “dreams” work off each other, one can’t exist without the others, and that innovative designers are needed for both of these fields in order for humanity’s life to continue, evolve, and stay interesting.

Project 2: City as Site Presentation - 4/10/19 1:15pm

Sketches and ideas of potential projects.

Week 10 Constant Output/Input Choreo - 4/10/19 9:37am

In this article, Toister describes why people in a situation wouldn’t recycle even though there were two different bins for trash and recycling and a sign that indicated the recycling bin. He describes “inattentional blindness” in which normally obvious things disappear from our attention and sight. I thought it was interesting that the placement of these bins really affected the way we perceived them because if I imagine myself in the situation he describes where the two bins were identical and the recycling bin was closer, I would also automatically just throw away all my trash in there without even glancing at the sign. I agree with him that in this setup, the sign would be pretty much useless. There needs to be a much clearer and bigger indication that the two bins hold different usages to outsiders. After reading this article, I’ve decided to focus on 3 factors for my project: the look of the bins, the different placement of the bins, and how the signs are portrayed, to see how they affect whether or not someone recycles, composts, and separates their trash. I felt that these are the big three factors that determine how we react to the trash system, and I can experiment with these to see what combinations work the best.

Various sketches for project ideas. 

Week 9 Constant Output/Input Choreo - 4/2/19 9:12pm

Week 7 Constant Output/Input Choreo- 3/27/19 4:30pm