Screen grab of some of the images in microsoft word, so that i could print them out, and then place them in my sketch book along with the future city concept art. I am also going to but architectural building in my sketch book as well. All this will then help me draw my shanty town and city.
Also in my sketchbook i have nearly finished the design layout of my product. A photo of this can be seen below.:
Frank Lloyd Wright, original name, Frank Lincoln Wright was bourn in June 8th 1867 and died in April 9th 1959. Before he died, he was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 projects, which resulted in more than 500 completed works. Wright promoted organic architecture (exemplified by Fallingwater), was a leader of the Prairie School movement of architecture (exemplified by the Robie House, the Westcott House, and the Darwin D. Martin House), and developed the concept of the Usonian home (exemplified by the Rosenbaum House). His work includes original and innovative examples of many different building types, including offices, churches, schools, skyscrapers, hotels, and museums. Wright also often designed many of the interior elements of his buildings, such as the furniture and stained glass.
Wright authored 20 books and many articles, and was a popular lecturer in the United States and in Europe. His colorful personal life often made headlines, most notably for the 1914 fire and murders at his Taliesin studio.
Already well-known during his lifetime, Wright was recognized in 1991 by the American Institute of Architects as "the greatest American architect of all time".
To View Much More Information, Please Go To This URL Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lloyd_Wright
Architecture
Another way to describe my advanced built city is some amazing architectural designs but within them having advanced technology. You cannot see the technology designs in my design as its designing an advanced city, so you would only see the city designs.
Below are some details on what an architectural designer is:
An architectural designer is an architect that works in the design of a building or urban landscapes, as opposed to the construction documents and management required to construct it. (It’s the designs of buildings that will be seen in my product as you cannot see the technology). Architectural designers have good creative skills, imagination and artistic talent. Although most students of architecture are trained to be designers in school, not all become designers in practice. Non-registered designers are similar, but cannot legally refer to themselves as "architectural" designers in most parts of the world. Most are referred to as building designers, especially when not employed by an architectural firm.
Here is where the information a an architecture comes from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architectural_designer
Checkpoint 1 – 17th November 2010
Description
Most of my work is placed in my folder as I find it easier to work in. I also have some work on my blog and in my sketchbook.
The very first thing that I’ve done was think of my ideas. My ideas have been put into a 2-paged document with short descriptions. Then after that I, expanded on my three ideas, with a wider description of the idea. Also for each idea, I have created a rough layout for what the product would look like. My three ideas are descriptive. I have done a lot of work for the ideas, as the ideas are important as one will be chosen out of them for me then to work on and produce. This took a while as I found it very difficult to understand the exam document. The ideas slowly came along. I have created and presented my presentation, which had two of my ideas in, that interested me the most. After the presentation to the client, I was aloud to choose which idea I wanted to produce as the client like them both and thought that they would be doable. After this I have started the working process on idea 1, looking into cities with futuristic looking buildings, getting future city examples. It is still a work in process. Just yesterday I have started on the audience feedback of idea one, but no one seems to want to give me feedback. Today I am hoping to create a questionnaire for my idea 1 and have people look at my idea and answer the questions.
Analysis
I was surprised by the views of the client after the presentation of my two ideas. I was also aloud to choose which idea I want to work on and produce, and for me, it was idea one where they world and technology come together to create this advanced city as I strongly believe that it can be done. After the presentation, I have started to work and develop my idea, since the presentation. Also gathering feedback on the idea and still gathering feedback on it witch I plan to do tonight or tomorrow when I am not at college.
Evaluation
I found it difficult to think of my ideas due to me finding it hard to understand the exam document. It was a long process for me to understand it and to get my three ideas. Since I have though of my ideas, I have found this exam project quite enjoyable, as I am left alone to do my work. I have needed a rough outline of where I need to go next after finishing an item. At the moment I feel that I am on track. I am looking forward to start producing the product in a week or two’s time. I have also found it difficult to get audience feedback. I have posted a message on Facebook, which leads to a link with my idea on a separate blog, asking if they could read it and give me their views/comments. I have also sent an email to all of my hotmail contacts, but have not received and feedback yet, so this has lead me to creating a questionnaire. This has still to be done, my aims is that it would be fully completed next Monday as I am also going to get member of the class to fill them out as well.
Forward Planning
From today, I plan to create my questionnaire and finish the audience feedback of my idea. They would be place in my work folder afterwards. Any negative feedback from the questionnaires will be taken into account and I would work on the negative feedback with my idea and make it better. I am also going to research online to see an estimate prediction of when the world could, or might be possible to create something like my idea. Even though, I believe with today’s technology, the world could create a city like my idea now ready for around 2025
Next week I shall start to sketch some building designs in my sketchbook, then some designs for a shack town. I shall also use the web to get a huge collection of technology company logos so that I can get a more of an idea of what the product will look like.
Its his views on how i presented the presentation and views on the ideas.Start Of Day
Today I plan to blog Pete’s comments on my ideas from the presentation from last Friday. After this I then plan to correct and comment on my presentation printout that is located in my folder, then go back to my digital save file of the presentation then edit it to the corrected version that I’ve done to the 1st printed version in my folder then print that out and place it with the hand corrected version. Then start to write a one-page report explaining how I plan to change my idea with the client’s feedback.
End Of Day
I have finished blogging Pete's comments, and I have also hand corrected my printed presentation powerpoint. I then have corrected the digital copy of the presentation and printed that off, which is now located within my folder. The corrected presentation shall be uploaded onto my blog tomorrow. I am half way through the one page report and i shall finish this tomorrow.
Presentation Feedback
Today I had to present the presentation to the client. The presentations were running over the time schedule that was given, so instead of my presentation being at 12:50pm, it was at around 1:05pm. I had been very nervous today because I really find it uncomfortable getting up in front someone to talk or present something to somebody. Later in the day I then found out that the presentation was going to be recorded so that I had proof that I did it when it comes to examining my work, and this made me feel more nervous about the presentation.
When I got into the classroom, I did not know how to start. When I started the presentation, I went straight to the 3rd slide which was the example of idea I as I though that if I talked about the idea before the client saw the example, he might not have understood it as well, so I talked about the idea with the example showing, so that I could explain it bit by bit.
When the presentation was over, Pete (The Client) then gave me his thoughts on the presentation and ideas. He was near enough positive about the presentation, but I made a few mistakes within he creation of the presentation, for example, on the 1st idea example, I included the Coca Cola logo in the example layout image, and the client did not understand what Coca Cola had to do with companies and their technology as it was meant to have technology companies logos as they would have imputed their technology to help create this advanced city in the near future. The client thought that the two ideas would work well and asked me which idea I liked the most, and that was idea one – an advance city. Also one last thing that the client thought that wouldn’t work as well on idea one is that the present day scene was countryside and he though that people would not want to change a lovely countryside into a city. So at the minutes, I think I am going to change it to a poor looking town, as this would have a better effect on the audience. So I believe that idea 1 is my chosen project idea now, and of course I will take in the client’s feedback and make the changes. On Monday 15th Nov 10, I shall begin the work towards me creating the final product.
Here is the up to date idea page. It includes idea 3 as well.
New Horizons
Idea 1 chosen theme is New Horizons.
New Horizons: How has the global media landscape changed?
How might it change in the near future?
From this theme, I have chosen a topic of Cultural Landscapes Evolving.
Idea 1:
The idea that I am really interested in doing is, on a meter squared piece of card, one half would be a country side, then the other half an advanced built city, but dividing the two would be a strip of worldwide company logos. For example I would put Sony’s and Microsoft’s logo on; this would be showing their technology was used to create this city. It is about what a city would look like if the entire world came together, bringing new technology, ways of creating things, with all cultures together. It’s everyone (Company, Person) with experience and knowledge joining to create something amazing. You can see my idea design on the other page.
Opportunities Provided By Global and Multi-Cultural Audiences
Idea 2 chosen theme is Opportunities provided by global and multi-cultural audiences.
Idea 2:
My second idea is to create a collage of worldwide products that come all over the world. This I would be exploring where our food, technology, clothing comes from. This would be showing that without the people in the different countries, we would not have our products today. For example Coca Cola first started in Georgia (U.S. state), and now it has spread all over the world. It is in over 200 countries. If John Pemberton did not develop Coca Cola, we would not have it today all over the world.
Idea 3:
Today i thought about an idea that i could do. I found this very difficult as i feel that the exam paper is not properly explained. I was reading an article (this is located in my folder) and there was a paragraph about Cultural Landscape Evolving, then i thought of the future and what it might look like, then this is how i got my first idea.
New Horizons
The chosen theme for the project is New Horizons.
New Horizons: How has the global media landscape changed?
How might it change in the near future?
From this theme, I have chosen a topic of Cultural Landscapes Evolving.
Idea 1:
The idea that I am really interested in doing is, on a meter squared piece of card, one half would be a country side, then the other half an advanced built city, but dividing the two would be a strip of worldwide company logos. For example I would put Sony’s and Microsoft’s logo on; this would be showing their technology was used to create this city. It is about what a city would look like if the entire world came together, bringing new technology, ways of creating things, with all cultures together. It’s everyone (Company, Person) with experience and knowledge joining to create something amazing. You can see my idea design on the other page.
Idea 2:
My second idea is to create a collage of worldwide products that come all over the world. This I would be exploring where our food, technology, clothing comes from. This would be showing that without them we would not have our products today. It would be the countries sharing their products, for example Coca Cola first started in Georgia (U.S. state), and now it has spread all over the world. It is in over 200 countries.
Most of my work will be in my folder as i would find it easier to place my work in it, but i will still put work on my blog as well.
Focus Group Interview Questions
Webisode Genres: Psychological thrillers, Mystery, Vampirism
Our final video is 3 minutes and 46 seconds long and our rough cut is 3 minutes and 28 seconds. The final version is longer as we did not add some scenes in the rough cut so we had a big chunk of that missing so now it is in the final video. Our final video would have been longer if we did not cut any footage, as i said some footage slowed the video down.Here is the Rough Cut
Title Sequence
Here you can see that we have changed the title sequence in the final version. The text was plain and simple in the rough cut and it appeared on the screen as if someone was typing it on. While this was happening, the background footage as moving, these both at the same time are hard to concentrate on and and for me, you have so many things moving in the background at a fast speed and then you have the titles over the top, makes me sometimes feel sick. So in the final version it was changed. We have a more stylish font for the titles which is very nice and it fits in with the style of the video. The name of the video is on a black background then, the rest to the titles are on a slow moving background which is more gental for the eyes. I feel that this is much better and suitable for the video. Only the name of the video is in a stylish font as we did not have the time to create the rest of the titles like this one so we had to keep with the rough cut titles but with a different background.
Special Effects
The special effects were add after the rough cut. We have many effects in our video and this makes it more believable, but having the effects still don't tell the story to the viewer. The special effects were created by Alison on her PC at home as she had Sony Vegas Pro 9 as Final Cut did not have the after effects that we wanted. So Alison took the footage home to create this amazing light effects. She has also darkend the footage in the woods scenes. In the shot below, you can see the difference between them both with having the effects and without having the effects. You can see that having the effects make it look much better.
New Scene
This scene had been added in after the rough cut. The rough cut was only a work in process version and not all scenes were added in when the rough cut was processed into a video then uploaded. We have the two trees centre stage with the light high up between them, this was done with the effects in Sony Vegas Pro 9. This scene also shows the progress of the character, then she transforms. Our original idea we her disappearing going back in time then coming back, but here she does not, she justs transforms between the two trees.
Significant changes were also made form the script to the footage as the character was going to go back in time then come back, but as a vampire seeking revenge. But now time travel was included in the final video, it just shows the transformation of her into a vampire, but you do not know this until she bits her boyfriend in the neck in the woods, but then we cannot see her bitting him, so the storyline is more confusing in the final version. 
Here is a screen grab of the location of the people who have viewed our video. It has had many page loads than views.
Here is the feedback from the class, which has been screen grabbed from vimeo below:
