Today I was working with Amy in this mornings session. For her contribution to the PH project she has focused on the Symptoms of PH. She had chosen to focus this on children and how they my relate to a family member who has been diagnosed with PH. The difficulty in this is that the main four symptoms to look out for could actually be present in many people but not in fact be at risk of PH. 

Her characters were highly stylised (very different from Kurtis’ minimal approach to his communication) and therefore trickier to place in context.

Discussing this with Amy we came to the conclusion that rather take a veiw of this as I did with Kurtis the week before, and use a mode of Motion Graphics, the animation must be more simplified. With this in mind we animated frame by frame digitally. Together we found ways of animating each character to fit the symptom they were highlighting. 

Amy had made sequential moving imagery before for previous project outcomes such as GIFs but not looked into adapting these into more sophisticated movements. This was a good opportunity, show how characters can be prepared for animation and simple movements.

This was a good opportunity and a good starting point to introduce new skills to one of the students (Kurtis) who was strong in the area of digital design. 

Using his design work from the PHA UK project we have together we have started to construct the video that we as a group plan to create.

The purpose of this piece of research is to primarily engage students in Charitable work through the mode of Art and Design.

Whilst thinking about this it became apparent to me through my experience of teaching, students struggle to place value in the work that they create.

One cause of maybe due to the over saturation of visual research that they have on hand through smart phones and social media.

Previous to this process Students have completed a Project with PHA UK to support the charity in spreading an awareness of the condition Pulmonary Hypertension (PH). 

The purpose of this piece of research is to engage students with rediscovering work that they have previously finished and repurpose it as a piece of visual communication for the public. In this case the design work for the proposed outcome has already been created and therefore is in need of processing into a video that the charity PHA UK can use as a tool to spread awareness. 

The management of this project will be done through 1:1 workshops, group forums and group discussions.