Project 3 The Clip Final

Media Design at any scale means interactivity. This is my design standpoint. The point of my video is a bit of a play on words with the word 'scale', using the scale of a person in the narrative of the video as a metaphor for the scale of media design throughout the world. Interactivity to me is the most important part about Media Design, if you are not interacting with something then you are not engaged and it is therefore not very good design. Ideally all design should be easy to interact with and understand, some examples of good design that are shown in my video are the CD Walkman, which clearly shows the user where the CD goes and how to to operate it with the help of large buttons. The Satellite Dish is designed with the purpose of picking up transmittable frequencies; it accomplishes this, this is shown in my video somewhat though the use of fantasy. Computers are something that we sometimes take for granted but they were designed well with their maximum potential being used by by people of a standard size not too large or too small. My video shows that some of human designs could be used by tiny or giant people if they existed, but more importantly it shows us that the best designs are the ones that we humans can manipulate to help us no matter what our current circumstances are, whether this is in a foreign area or in a location far away from a source of power. These ideas were shown in my video through the use of different locations, for example the use of a computer in the middle of a forest, and the implication of foreign lands, when the video takes us into both a small world and a large world.

The link below will take you to my clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNfIauOcHUU&feature=youtube_gdata

Paper Mache Satellite

Today we experimented with paper mache. The idea is that the girl in the video will hold up a satellite dish that will be small in comparison to her body as she is, at the current stage, a giant; she will wave it around, searching for a frequency. While she is holding the satellite her eyes are static like an untuned TV, when she finds the correct frequency the static will lessen and an image of the next scene will appear through her eyes.

Model Shellie, holding up paper mache satellite

Tele Vision Static

The Clip - Storyboards

 This is the main storyboard for my final movie, it shouldn't change too much.

1. A computer in a dark hallway,
2.The computer is approached by the main character who clicks on the icon 'small',
3.she begins to shrink,
4.she falls backwards,
5.she lands on a pillow in a small world,
6.she opens a CD case and begins to roll the CD,

7.The CD is rolled into a CD Walkman, 

8.She plugs headphones into the walkman and beings listening to music, 

9.she walks with the headphones as far as they will extend until she reaches a laptop, 

10.she runs on the laptops mousepad controlling the mouse, 

11.she hovers the mouse over the icon 'big', 

12.she double jumps on the left mouse button,

13. The camera zooms up on the sole of her shoe,
14. the camera zooms out to show her whole body and we see a new world materializing,
15. she lands on a street as a giant the size of the houses,
16. she starts to run and spots a satellite dish,
17. she grabs the satellite dish and scans the sky for a signal her eyes become television static,
18. the camera zooms up on her eyes and we see that she has found a signal.

19. The camera zooms up furthur into her eyes showing a picture of a computer setup,
20. the camera continues to zoom and shows the computer is full of errors [restart now],
21. the camera zooms out to show the figure of the girl again,
22. a full body shot of the giant girl shows her holding a large branch.
23. the branch carefully presses the enter button on the computers keyboard,
24. the girl rematerializes in her original world at her original size.



 Background Image codes:

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Nana Technology

We aimed to create an advertisement directed at elderly people who struggled to come to terms with the ever-growing world of technology.
The main intention our group had was to portray the companies expertise in teaching and aiding the elderly in the use of laptops, cellphones, iPods and numerous other pieces of modern day technology. Along side this we tried to reiterate the fact that technology is more simple and easy to use than it comes across to be.
We wanted the customer to see that our company offers quick, simple and reliable help at a low, affordable price.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLIvWOMTYrg&feature=g-upl

Computer

 Set making is going to be one of the most rewarding and fun parts of this project. Tonight I had to clear the household hallway of everything; this included taking photos and mirrors of the walls, moving anything that would look out of place, and shifting a large baby's buggy. I then had to set up my computer in the hallway, connect it to a power source, create the folders on the computer, and make it dark and sinister looking by turning out the lights.

The computer at the end of the dark hallway.

The Computer Screen

Test Sample

 

This is a preview clip of how some of my clip will look. There are scenes where the character is either giant or tiny in size (similar to that of Alice In Wonderland) in these scenes I will take photos of my model doing the correct movements that will then match up with the photos of the setting as she interacts with it. For Example, in this clip the photos of the girl are taken seperately from the photos of the street, but when put together it appears as if the girl is walking down the street.

The Background Picture is 'East Bleecker St between Cornelia & Carmine St' taken by'Cedric Mainguy
http://www.streetsfromnewyork.com/east-bleecker-st-between-cornelia-carmine-st/