Written Component
Austin Roberts Arch. 433 / Fall 2018 / Ian Harris Final Written Component
Mission: Focussing on a single building that provides and insight on how preservation can benefit the built environment. With Shattuck as our case study, we show what a preserved buildings can do to a community and how people interact with its functions.
Abstract: Distinguishing the need for preservation of certain buildings can help to guide and make precedence for future development within the built environment. While not all buildings should be preserved, there are others that stand out and make for a prime example as to what should be preserved. Buildings that positively affect their surroundings and the community itself are critical when looking at what to preserve. Historic or not, a building should have a quality impact within its setting and provide a pleasurable architectural aesthetic for those that see it along with a pleasurable experience for those that interact with the built structure. Our goal is to highlight what it is that makes for a quality preservation. What does a preserved building evoke in others? What does it provide for the community? How does it affect those that interact? These are some of the questions we are asking to find answers for and take those answers to provide our narrative.
Project Development: Week 1-4: Learning how to use hardware and software and testing video footage with Premiere. Analyzing films to see what works well. Storyboard start and start of Group Project. Week 5: Midterm review. Compiling of video footage and working with sound to compile a rough work of our Group Project. Week 6: Working on how and when to apply text to video and bettering our narrative. Added footage to Project and clarified our story. Week 7: Applied first cut of our narrating voice to our video and rearranged footage and added footage to further help our narrative. Edited texts. Week 8: Added a second interview narrative and replaced some video footage and tested new arrangements. Changed our "theme" song. Further edited texts. Week 9: Continued testing arrangement of certain scenes to better fit interview narrative and music sequence. Cut scenes and replaced with better fits. Week 10: Edited interview "ums" and finallized on screen texts. Replaced one scene and cut down a couple scenes. Added credits and special thanks.
Course Reflection: Throughout the course, we were able to use technology and our creative minds to work towards a final product. With learning about how to use camera technologies it will benefit my overall use of a camera in future projects with how to successfully capture what I am wanting to evoke from either a photograph or video. Utilization of the Adobe Premiere program will definitely help to compile works and create videos for my projects and portfolios for even getting work. Looking into how other films affect people was very helpful in how I will look into other films and further analyze how film can help people to further understand architecture. With creating video, I can help my own future architecture in this same way to express more directly what I am trying to bring out in my designs and process. This class offered a valuable insight on how I can utilize video to capture emotion and story and understanding to relay it to the viewer effectively. While most architectural classes are based purely visually, video offers the bonus of sound, which amplifies the impact and feeling one recieves when also seeing architecture. This powerful addition will help my future projects get to another level even further. An extra note of adding comedy to architecture is something I've also been interested in, but never been pushed to try it. I love comedy and I think the architectural world could use it heavily. I'll definitely be adding appropriate notes of humor to future works.