Design Visualisation, Project Three, Blog One

To make a start to project three, a stop motion clip, we starting brainstorming ideas as a group on media design, with the concept 'a new way of seeing'.

Our initial brainstorm

We first looked at having reality collide with the digital world, such as having an image on the screen which comes out of the screen and into the real world. Alternatively we thought that we could even have a drawing leave the page of a sketch pad and 'jump into' a computer screen, perhaps trashing the computer desktop showing this whole idea of older media versus new media.

This is the kind of thing we were thinking of in terms a drawing attacking a computer...

Another idea we looked at was graffiti art. Having graffiti/taggings come to life. In which we could explore a 'new way of seeing' graffiti, portraying it as something that just keeps being re-done even when a lot of effort goes into getting it removed.

I think this video is a great example of our idea as it shows ever evolving wall art...

The other main idea we looked at was the evolution of media from the days of using fax, wired telephones, older cameras etc. While now days only needing one device in the form of something like a smart phone.

We then looked at the smart phone and all its capacities, looking specifically at the media devices it has replaced from the past.

We then came up with a simple storyboard with the idea of having a newspaper with the news and a letter with mail flying through the air and being grabbed by someone who puts them in their pocket. They then see something the like putting their fingers around it as you do when lining up a camera shot and it then takes a photo which they place in their pocket. They then reach into their pocket, pull out a smart phone and flick through their mail, news and images. Our intention with this idea is that it would show this whole idea of the new way of seeing media, which is mainly digital these days, and a lot of it can be found in a pocket sized device.

A video we found that was very similar to this idea was an old vodafone advert, here it is on YouTube...