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Materialise Brief; 'Trace' | Experience and Present Brief | HA4109 Monday Lecture Notes

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11/03

Lecture: Play and Participation: Children’s Media

Aims of pedagogic play (Bodrova and Leong 2010)

-Using toys and props in a symbolic way

-Developing consistant and extended play scenarios

-Developing and maintaining play roles and rules

Constructivism

-Children are active builders of theory who construct and rearrange knowledge based on what they experience around them

Constructionism

-Learning happens especially well when people, not just children, are engaged in constructing something external to themselves

[Image: The Age of Innocence (c.1788) Joshua Reynolds]

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04/03

Lecture: Spatial Design, Environmental Illustration and Extractnematic Animation

Concepts;

-The public sphere | -Phenomenology | -The social production

Murals, public’s and debate

-The mural subject is the process of humanity in scientific discovery but also about revolution and class struggle

-In form of muralism, Illustration in public spaces of the city are often about promoting certain ideas of the public, people, citizenship, society

Why do street artists make street art?

-Cultural | -Communicative | -Oppositional | -Aesthetic | -Affective

Space as a social product (Henri Lefebure)

-‘Spaces are layered with webs of meanings and significance that are socially produced’

Phenomenology

-We only experience things from one specific perspective among a range of possible views

-Our experience is always partial, relational and provisional as wells as bodily

[Image; Diego Rivera (1934) Man at the crossroads]

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26/02

Interpretation Adaptation: pt.3 The Page and The Screen

Briefing of pt.3;

The Page

-A physical object | -Form is adaptable | -Design and layout can effect pacing | -Text and Image | -Linear

The Screen

-Specific format | -Image (view point) | Time | -Sound | -Movement | -Can be linear

Your ideas can be more interpretive then adaptive

Consider what you find to be the most interesting parts of the story as a base for your decision

[Image: Tales of Greek Heros; Rome Blümel]

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25/02

Lecture 6: Essay Briefing

Discussing details on handing our essay in and what questions there are to choose from

Due Date: 15th April

Submission: Online via Canvas, through Turnitin (.doc, .docx, .pdf only)

The Brief;

-Write an essay of 2000 words in response to One of the set questions.

-Using Harvard Referencing System, images should be fully captioned, and sources accurately listed in a bibliography

The 5 Stages;

-Interpretation -Research -Planning -Writing -Editing

Choosing a Question;

(Most interesting to me)

-Information Design | -Sensory Design | -Comics and Visual Narrative

Finding Resources

-Reading lists, Journals, iCat, Magazines

Presentation

-Name, K number, Module Code, Word Count, Question at the top

-Font Size 11/12, Double Spaces, Paragraphs are indented and separated

[Photo: Biodiversity Heritage Library (CC BY 2.0)]

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22/02

Friday Seminar: Process and Portfolio

Today we discussed three different ways you can present work;

-Archival/Experiential

Organised, Catagoration | Archival Website | Experiential Website

-Diarised/Anecdotal

Blogs | Instagram

-Edited Sequence

Print/PDF Portfolio | Showreel

We went on to figure out how we can present our own work;

-The Content (Presenting what’s in the picture)

Just the image | Crop of the Image

-The Process (Contruction Methods; e.g. ink on surface or paint strokes)

Thumbnails/Sketches | Timelapse/Documentary Photographs | Material (zoomed in picture showing folds, glitter, textures etc.)

-The Context (In the space it was designed to be in)

Captions | How it is displayed | Scale/How it would be used in real life (e.g. poster, billboard, book cover etc)

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18/02

Lecture 5: Comics and Visual Narrative

The impossible definition

-The idea is visual sequence has been at the heart of several definitions of comics

Sequentual Art

-Images put in a sequence to tell a story or convey information graphically

The 3 main epicentres of the comic production are;

-France-Belgium

-Japan

-US

Comic formats include;

-Manga Magazines | -Comic Books | -Graphic Novels | -Web-Comics

-We also discussed the types of panel transitions;

Movement to Movement | Action to Action

Subject to Subject | Scene to Scene

Aspect to Aspect | Non-Sequitur

[Image; Charles Schultz, 1950-2000, Peanuts]

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01/02

Friday Seminar: Processes

We looked into the types of processes you can use to organise and link pictures together

-Typology

Putting things into groups that have similarities

-Chronology

Arrangement of events or dates that they happened

-Continuity

The unbroken and consistent of something over time

08/02

[Picture above is my final sequence]

-I chose to present in on a mirror so that you could see moving reflections behind the images

-I also like this sequence best because each images is made up of lots of individual pieces, with all colours in the images are similar to each other.

-I found that the close up pictures were most intriguing to me as you could see a lot of texture and it asks the viewer to question where the picture was taken or what the picture is of.

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28/01

Lecture: CHS Study Skills Programme

Lecture 1; Interpretating Meaning in Design

We looked at the different ways in which people interpret design and what causes people’s different interpretations

- What is culture?

Societies shared and socially transmitted ideas, values and perceptions

-Materiality?

Engages a dialogue between people and things

-Product Symbolism?

“Consumer foods are an important medium of our culture; they are a place we keep our private and public meaning, meanings we use to define ourselves” - (McCracken, Culture and Consumption II, 1990)

-Don Slater (Comsumer Culture and Modernity, 1999) argues that;

People understand complex concepts through relationships with things (Complex specific codes)

-Subjective Interpretation?

The object may have no fixed meaning, everyone has a different take on it

Lecture 2; Choose your own library adventure with Marissa Collins

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21/01

Lecture 3: Information Design: Scientific Illustration, Industrial Animation and Visual Literacy

Visual Literacy

-‘We seek visual reinforcement of our knowledge for many reasons, but primary among them is the directness of the information, the closeness to the real experience...’ (Dondis, 1973 p.2)

Scientific Illustration

-Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave, c.30,000 BC

-‘Human beings seem to have always used visual representation to comprehend the natural world and their place in it’ (Robin, 1992 p.11)

Earth Sciences

-Carina Nebula captures by the Hubble Telescope

-Galileo (1616) ‘Six Phases is the Moon’

Botanical Animation

-F Percy Smith (1910) ‘Birth of a Flower’

[Image: Codex Vindobonenis (512 AD) ‘Vienna Dioscorides’]

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18/01

Friday Seminar

Briefing: Everyday Connections

-We will create visual journeys, narratives and puzzles through series of 5 photographs

-It could connect through colour, texture, emotion, location or purpose, among others

-We’ll be trying to find how pictures work next to each other in interesting and unexpected ways

-Keeping in mind composition, content and textures etc

The brief will end with an exhibition presentation with our final selected sequence of 5 pictures

This brief will be especially helpful with being more precise in images and helping me to choose pictures that are the best for what I’m try to convey in the future

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14/01

Lecture 2: Sensory Design

Illustration Animation and Touch

-“According to the latest scientific estimates, there are at least then senses and possibly as many as 33”

The Sensorium; ‘The total characters of the unique and changing sensory environments perceived by individuals’

-How Does Illustration To Our Sense Of;

Touch- Hot/Cold Press and Rough paper

Hearing- Crumpled paper

Smell/Taste- Old Books

[Image: ‘The Age of Noise in Britain’ (2016) James G.Mansell]

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07/01/19

Lecture: Introduction to Teaching Block 2

Reportage, Visual Journalism and Animated Documentary

-Reportage; Artists are being commissioned as reporters to go out and document 

- Denotation; ‘Literal or Surface meaning’ 

-Connotation; ‘Cultural associated meaning’

“Documentary drawings, unlike documentary photography, capture minutes and hours as opposed to fractions of a second.”- Julia Midgely on Raportage Illustration Today

Animated documentary’s include; ‘Ryan’ [2004] Chris Landreth. And ‘Of Stars and Men’ [1964] John + Faith Hubley

[Picture: ‘Liberation of Mosul’ (April 2017) by George Butler]

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30/11

Friday Seminar: Experience and Present; Storytelling

‘Take of the Unexpected’ My Story

Based on a family who moves into their new home but something no one was expecting to happen 

Full story can be found in my RSJ

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26/11

Experience and Present: Brainstorming for Friday Seminar Story

Brainstorming my ideas for the ‘Tale of the Unexpected’ story, deciding between my original Houseboat story and continuing on with my previous Hedgehog story.

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26/11

HA4109: Lecture: Illustration Animation Film Festival 2018

Also Illustration Animation Film Festival 2018 Program created by my group and I

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23/11

Friday Seminar: Experience and Present; Storytelling

-Single Unity Effect; ‘Every sentence was in service of creating feeling in the audiences

Brainstorming ideas for ‘Tale of The Unexpected’ story 

-A story should start as something, maybe simple and basic but rapidly turns into something else

My idea of an unexpected tale centers around a family living on a houseboat