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Group Reflection: Technical Construction and the Final Installation

(By Hannah)

In our last few hours of preparation, we set up our computers and projectors to show our final images and prepare to line them up.

We came across a technical difficult when one of our computers gave us an error we hadn’t seen before. With quick thinking, we sent one of our group members to exchange the PC for another, and finally get them working.

Our completed set up - exactly as we had sketched it with two projectors and two computers.

We even had a few friends come by and play with the exhibit. We all noticed how much fun people had covering the projector and playing with the images.

Down one member of the team, but all really pleased with the outcome!

With half of the screen covered, you can see what truly lies beneath.

On our last day (barring our clean up day), we came together and worked as a team once again. Throughout the day, every person did their part to put the finishing touches on our exhibition. From printing signs, to wiring computers and angling projectors, to doing a last minute edit, each person was instrumental in this team’s success today.

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Sean: Project Realisation - the Background

Planning and organising our project has taken up the biggest part of the time we spent on this project, but we also had to take the time to bring our ideas to reality. In this part I was responsible for creating the background, while Nicky was taking over the animation.

Vira created this illustration to be used on the billboard in the background to give the scene even more character.

During the constant process we were in contact with the rest of the group to make sure everyone was happy and felt the communal idea was implanted in the right way, besides a few small communication problems, that we easily solved it worked astonishingly well. Together we had settled on an art style and atmosphere, we decided to go with a cartoony low-poly 3D-style to convey the idea and story we chose in a simple yet significant way while still being able to produce a satisfactory product in the limited time we were given.

A first test of the art-style and the city’s two versions.

The beauty of low poly is that it is rather simple to create while still giving off a lot of character and leaving enough space for little details all over the place to enhance the latter, especially when combined with the right lighting and colours. The whole scene was created in Maya and rendered in V-Ray.

the final composition of our happy version background.

I chose a warm-pastel palette to give the city a warm, slightly bubblegum-cuteness tone; while the dark version simply has it’s saturation decreased into a brownish fallout-atmosphere, that and a few broken windows, cars and dead trees was enough to complete change the scene’s atmosphere to the depressing result we were going for.

0the hidden darkness composition before the animations got added.

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Sean: Myers-Briggs and Belbin Personality Type applied in Teamwork

Until now I avoided personality tests like these, as I dislike the idea of catching a person’s whole personality in a few limited categories, another point of criticism was the consistency, I have difficulties believing that taking a long questionnaire about your personality will always result in the same outcome and not be compromised by, for example the recent mood. Nevertheless the idea of applying the personality type to evaluate roles in teamwork seems like an interesting approach.

According to my Myers–Briggs I am INFP, introverted, intuitive, feeling perceiving, which, to me sounds rather accurate. I have no problem with another group member taking the lead while I find my spot in the team, just as little as I mind to take over the organizational part once we reach a strait. I always try my best to aid the group with my ideas and doings while not forcing any ideas onto the rest. According to the INP description on typelogic.com, INFPs ‘never lose their sense of wonder’ and live in a world ‘where mundane objects come to life’[1]; it feels like with this attitude I was able to help the group with a few ideas of thinking outside the box, not all of them were useful or taken in the end but it feels helpful to get out of a stuck train of thought.

The result of my Belbin test described me mostly as a team worker and a plant, which describes both my biggest strengths and weaknesses, I am a creative team player that likes to solve problems and cooperate with others, while I sometimes struggle to come to clear decisions or articulate my ideas because I am often already thinking about something new.

On the whole, I can say that these tests were surprisingly applicable to the role I found in the team and I will try to use this to position myself in upcoming group works, whether it’s in university or my later job; and I will try to work on both my strengths and weaknesses highlighted through this experience.

Reference

Joe Butt. 2005. typelogic.com. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.typelogic.com/infp.html. [Accessed 5 February 2018].

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Nicky: Myers-Briggs Personality Test

I took the Myers-Briggs Personality Test a few years ago, putting my personality type as INTP (short for: Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Prospecting), which revealed to me what I already know about myself and much more that I didn’t.

Among them there were a few that I feel applies when it comes to working within a group, both positive and negative.

INTP types are rational and impartial individuals who enjoys intellectual pursuits and prizes independence.

Known for their open-mindedness and are highly receptive of alternate theories so long as they are supported by logic and facts.

Capable of spotting out problems and developing a unique and viable solution for them easily.

Have a tendency to move quickly from topic to topic whenever they get excited with an idea they have without fully explaining their first one before moving on to the next.

Tends to be extremely restless and have a pervasive fear of failure, leading to excessive worrying over their own thoughts and ideas.

Believes that honesty and truth are the most important things.

As an INTP, I am extremely open and enthusiastic of other ideas, willing to happily go along with them and enjoys throwing ideas around with the other people in my group, trying to see if it could lead to inspirations or even other ideas. I am also objective in my view on things, rarely allowing personal feelings colour my opinions, meaning that for the most part, I am able to keep things in perspective.

However, the downside to being an INTP is that I have difficulty focusing on a single thing for an extended period of time, which leads to forgetfulness of even the most obvious and basic things. I am also aware that I am quite withdrawn when compared to other members of my team, not speaking as much as the others.

With the additional information I got from the Belbin Quiz which places me as a Resource Investigator (appreciated for their enthusiasm and optimistic nature) and Teamworker (cares about others and able to adapt to and do what is required of the team), I am able to successfully spot out some of my strengths and weaknesses and hope to find ways to enhance the former while working to overcome the latter.

- Chong Keng Fatt (Nicky)

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Nadejda: Hi-Tec Fashion

French fashion designer Franck Sorbier revealed his haute couture collection for the Fall/ Winter 2012-2013. The main features of his designs is technology. Sorbier uses only two models wearing a simple white and black dress, which is unusual in the fashion industry to create two garments however he uses the two dresses as a canvas for his spectacular designs to be projected on that transforms the garments in to a collection.

Franck Sorbier created a collection which inspired me to inform my group of this idea which I had come across whilst researching projection mapping in fashion. The use of patterns and multicoloured prints had caught my eye, it has given me an idea of using either nature or primary colours in our final projection that will catch the audiences attention as they enter the gallery.

Franck Sorbier: Fall/Winter 2012-2013

Reference: Pinar (2012). Hi-Tech Fashion: Dress Projection Mapping. [online] My Modern Met. Available at: https://mymodernmet.com/franck-sorbier-haute-couture-fall-winter-2012-2013/ [Accessed 30 Jan. 2018].

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Xian Wei(Vira): Group Reflection-The Concept of Final Idea

I came up with the concept of the final idea is when our group brainstorming for come up with three different ideas, we made a general framework for three different ideas. Which are: • layering 2 images

• characters moving on physical objects • projections on a dress

During we further explore the contents and concepts of idea 2, our group members mentioned that two characters can be added to the storyline, such as a couple of lovers, crossing the obstacles made by physical objects, and finally being together. Then the members began to think about how to arrange the story line to attract the audience's attention, or to send some information to the audience. At this time "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" suddenly popped out of my memory.

I unwittingly read the Chinese version of this short story about two or three years ago. Obviously, this is a very thought-provoking story. After reading it, I also think a lot about it. No matter it is from the angle of the description of the story itself or from the social perspective behind the story, I feel sorry for the little boy or the group he alludes to. So when our group members mentioned that there will be two roles in idea 2, even if it is fictitious, I still want to give the poor boy a better ending: a girl has successfully surmounted and rescued the little boy from Omelas.

Originally, I came up with this idea for idea 2, but in order to cater for the two characters' frame, it is somewhat farfetched to imagine a girl who doesn't exist in the story. The most important thing is that when the members of our group know the story roughly together, it feels that it is more suitable to be displayed in the form of idea 1. It is because the happy land built by the author is too perfect that readers will be infected by the joy atmosphere of Omelas, which makes the turning point of the story more devastating after the audience finds the source of this joy.

When the narrator mentioned that "no one in Omelas is guilty", the reader's subconscious reaction may be: because they are foolish enough to be unsympathetic. It was not until later in the story that every resident living in Omelas knew the existence of that little boy, and that they were not guilty of a deliberate calculation. After they accurately weigh the pros and cons, they chose to sacrifice one's rights for the interests of the majority's (Sustana, 2017). The comparison between before and after the twist to the story can be very clear by two projectors overlap the tableaus to show / express. And I'm glad that our group members are willing to choose this story as a concept.

Reference Sustana, C. (2017). What Is an Analysis of "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"?. [online] ThoughtCo. Available at: https://www.thoughtco.com/ones-who-walk-away-omelas-analysis-2990473 [Accessed 25 Jan. 2018].

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Group Reflection: Construction of the Plinth!

(By Hannah)

As we get ready for our exhibition tomorrow (6 February), we needed to construct our custom plinth. Designed to hold two projectors and two computers, it needed to be wide, sturdy, and tall enough for the audience to interact with our top projector with ease.

After we got our pieces cut from the lovely people in Digital Workshop 1, we set about creating.

Sean cut out holes on the side of our shelves so the wiring would be hidden inside and reduce any trip hazards.

While Vira, Nicky, and Hannah went to Digital Workshop 2 to cut wood pieces to support the shelves, Sean and Nadia drilled our ventilation holes to ensure our projectors and computers would not over heat while on the shelves.

Even Nadia helped with some drilling, and Vira turned out to be the bext person with the hand saw!

Teamwork: when 4/5 members are holding your pieces together and the 5th is capturing the moment.

Putting on the finishing piece.

A projector will sit on top of the plinth, the one on the top inside shelf, and a computer on each of the two shelves below. You can see the holes for ventilation, and the large hole on the left side of the shelf for wires and cables to go through.

Something each of us echoed throughout our day was how happy we were with our group dynamics and each person’s work ethic. We all arrived on time (and stayed the entire day), and each person took on different tasks throughout the day. Some more involved in construction, some in material preparation, some in cleaning, and some did a little of each. There was not a single person who did not significantly contribute at multiple points throughout the day.

There were a few times where we realized we screwed in a piece of wood the wrong way. Nobody really got mad or even frustrated, we simply got the drill back out, fixed it, and moved on to the next task.

All the work we have been building on really culimnated in the teamwork we showed today and are confident we will show tomorrow as we finish up the technical aspects to prepare our piece to show tomorrow evening.

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Nadejda: Myers-Briggs Personality Type

Before taking the Belbin test I had a rough idea of what my personality skills were, I had seen myself to be social as well as a coordinator which allowed me to delegate others in assigning tasks for them to accomplish. After completing the test my results showed me that my strengths are being a resource investigator and a coordinator, which did not surprise me at all as I had already knew that I had a coordinator strength however the test did explain in more depth of what the strength actually meant. I discovered that the strengths meant that I enjoy meeting new people as well as exploring opportunities, I am known for encouraging others and bringing out the best in my colleagues, it explains that my strength makes me mature, confident and aware of my priorities which allows me to understand what tasks need to be completed and delegate others.

Extraverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging

By taking the Myeres Briggs test the results were that I have tremendous ability to manipulate others in a good way with my interpersonal and unique salesmanship. ENFJs are known to believe in their dreams and see themselves as helpers and enablers which is something that I truly agree with. I believe my skills towards the group gave us newer and better solutions to solve our problems.

Reference:

Butt, J. (2010). ENFJ Profile. [online] Typelogic.com. Available at: http://www.typelogic.com/enfj.html [Accessed 2 Feb. 2018].

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Xian Wei(Vira): Personality Reflected in Teamwork

Before I did this personality test, I already had some understanding of my own character, so I'm not really surprised at the test results and have a deeper understanding of myself. The result shows that my personality type is ENFP which is stand for Extravert, Intuitive, Feeling and Perceiving.

There’s few points on the ENFP type description which I think is related with teamwork.

They want to both help and to be liked and admired by other people, on both an individual and a humanitarian level. This is rarely a problem for the ENFP, as they are outgoing and warm, and genuinely like people.

ENFPs often have strong, if sometimes surprising, values and viewpoints. They tend to try to use their social skills and contacts to persuade others gently of the rightness of these views;

In the workplace, ENFPs are pleasant and friendly, and interact in a positive and creative manner with both their co-workers and the public.

ENFPs are also a major asset in brainstorming sessions; follow-through on projects can be a problem, however. ENFPs do get distracted, especially if another interesting issue comes along.

They also tend towards procrastination, and dislike performing small, uninteresting tasks. ENFPs are most productive when working in a group with a few Js (Judging) to handle the details and the deadlines.

As an ENFP, I’m not really good at dealing with organize things and manage time. If I’m doing a personal project, even if I forced myself to make a long-term plan, normally I won’t do my work according to it. Even I could finish my works in time, but it still makes me stressful sometimes.

When I was in a team, it seems not be a problem anymore especially when there’s a member could lead the direction, because the other characteristic of me being an ENFP is quite take others’ opinions and feelings seriously. Do not bring trouble to others is the biggest motive for me to do anything I should as quick as possible, so I think I could be a good follower in a group. And sometimes I have ideas which cannot be achieved by my own, but in a team, everyone is unique and have different talents, so I’m not afraid of speak it out and share my opinions, because I like the feeling that I’m helpful.

Reference

Butt, J. and Heiss, M. (n.d.). ENFP Extraverted iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving. [online] Humanmetrics.com. Available at: http://www.humanmetrics.com/personality/enfp [Accessed 2 Feb. 2018].

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Group Reflection: Final Idea for Project

On the 25th of January, our group decided to meet up in order to flesh out the 3 ideas that we presented the day before. During our meeting, we were able to come up with a written storyboard for each of the 3 preliminary ideas. Eventually, after much deliberation, we decided on Idea 1.

The concept of Idea 1 is inspired by the short story The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula Le Guin, which tells the story of a town named Omelas that is in a perpetual state of utopia where everything is good and happy, but later on, it is revealed that the city's constant state of serenity and peacefulness is maintained by the townsfolk condemning a single unfortunate child to eternal misery in a hell-like location.

In order to portray the dissonance between these two different places, we decided to use two projectors, one suspended in the air, and one at waist-level, both aimed at the same spot. The lower projector will have a video of the peaceful town with the townsfolk happily talking with each other, while the higher one will have a video of the desolate place with the child curled into a ball, crying and shackled to the ground by the neck. This way, when the viewer were to block the projection from the lower projector, it will cover up the vibrant town to reveal the ruined place underneath it.

The reason that we chose this one over the other 2 was because of how it requires the viewer to participate in it in order to experience the full thing and out of all the other ideas, we feel that this one is the most fun to do as it leaves so much room for us to experiment with it in order to see what we can do with it.

Among the difficulties that we will face executing this idea is making the two images overlap without distortion as a result of the projectors’ tilt, causing the projection to lean, making it somewhat difficult to align the images together perfectly. Another one would be colour choices as certain colours as certain colours stand out more than others so we have to make sure that for the ‘ruined’ layer, the color scheme need to be one that can be hidden by the color scheme from the ‘vibrant’ layer.

During our discussion, we also came up with a written storyboard for each of the three ideas. This is the one we came up with for Idea 1:

Lauren walks around the museum and sees an interesting piece. There is a small plaque with the title of the piece and some background info. Feeling curious, she walks up to it.

There are two projectors: one hanging from the ceiling, angled downward projecting on the wall. (That is the happy layer.), and one waist high (~3ft/1m) projecting on the same spot on the wall. There is a green circle on the ground behind the projector that says 1 on it and a blue circle that says 2 on it between the projector and the wall. She stands on the green circle. (Potentially no circles, sign on the wall, person blocks projector and figures it out on their own.)

The projection on the wall shows an image of a bright and happy town. There are a few people happily talking with each other on the right side, picturesque buildings - nice apartment buildings with lots of shiny windows. There are some nice trees planted along the sidewalk. Everything looks clean and perfect - too perfect.

Lauren feels a sense of peace and nostalgia looking at the image, being able to picture herself living there. Curious to see more, she walks to the blue circle.

She is now blocking the waist high projector. The image on the wall has changed. Now she sees a sad, desolate town. Everything is levels of gray. The buildings are more run down. The trees are missing all their leaves - devoid of life. There is a smoke tower from behind. There is a silhouette (small body, large head - indicating it is a child) standing towards the left side. He is curled up on the ground, with a shackle visible on his neck attaching him to the ground beside him.

Lauren is confused. What happened to the happy place? She thinks about how the images have changed, and in turn the context as well. She processes the differences in the buildings and the environment between the two layers and thinks about what she had seen and the implications of what it means as she leaves.

(written by Hannah Hyde)

As we have settled on Idea 1 as our final project, a visual storyboard is drawn by Chong Keng Fatt:

- Chong Keng Fatt (Nicky)

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Nadejda: Group Reflection Idea 3

For the groups third idea we had thought of projecting on a white dress or a piece of fabric. Our dress design idea is a flowing white dress, floor length stretching out in a 3 feet diameter around the mannequin, long sleeve with a v-neck.

Our projection on the white fabric was to be of elements such as water or fire to be changing patterns. The ideas that the group came up with were having the evolution of music through the ages or choosing artists from each era (60s, 70s, 80s, etc) and projecting them onto the dress. The second pattern idea was video games throughout the decades such as Pong, Pac Man, etc. The idea consisted of different patterns projected, either from the top of the mannequin in a 360 degree or from on direction onto the front of the dress.

The idea had two versions it was either a plain white dress on a mannequin to project the elements on with a projection pointed on the mannequins head, projecting faces or changing characters

We thought that potentially the dress could be worn by a model or a dancer and we could work out our piece for example figuring out whether there is a cohesive narrative to it or whether it was an issue such as feminism in the world. The projection is not to be on all the time, it allows to create a tension and excitement in the audience and allow them to work out what is going on as well as controlling their time and attention.

The idea was inspired by designed dresses from the Hunger Games as well as Jennifer Lopez projection mapping dress in one of her concerts.

The storyboard that we had come up with during our discussion for idea three was:

(Storyboard written by Chong Keng Fatt)

Poppy walks into the gallery, she immediately sees a mannequin in a flowing, white dress in the centre of the space. She approaches it and sees various patterns projected onto the fabric depicting the passage of time (history of music videos or video games through the ages). The images instills in Poppy a sense of nostalgia for a childhood long since past, wistfulness of a bygone era. She walks around, viewing the dress from different angles, admiring the way in which the patterns and projections curve around the material object before her.

Ideas of our dress idea

Mohammad, N. (2018) ‘Dress Idea’, Unpublished Photograph

Nadejda: Lumiere London

Voyage- Camille Gross and Leslie Epsztein

The Voyage is a projection of a remarkable journey through the years. It is projected on the Hotel Cafe Royal, the centre of the building has a clock, which exhibits the hands of the station clock that rapidly spiral revolving around days and years marking changes throughout the world by speeding through time to the present.

Waterlicht - Daan Roosegaarde

Daan Roosegaarde created the Waterlicht projection by being inspired to the changing relations to water. The projection shows actions ignored to tackle global warming as well as rising sea levels. Waterlicht accentuates the power and poetry of water. During the programme the public is encouraged to use their phone and their headphones to obtain the full experience.

Spectral - Katarzyna Malejka and Joachim Slugocki

Katarzyna Malejka and Joachim Slugocki are young artists from Poland. Their poetic installation of a colourful cord construction was based in St. James Park which was the perfect location to display their work. Most of their work explores abstract and geometric shapes that are installed in natural environment.

After our visit to the Lumiere London the main projections that caught my eye had used vibrant colours, sound and movement which had inspired our group to include movement only in our project as we wanted to keep it simple yet interesting.

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Vira’s Group Reflection: Idea 2

(Storyboard written by Chong Keng Fatt)After envisage about three different ideas, our group has developed each of them further. I'm going to reflect on the development of the second ideas in this blog and explain why we didn't choose it at last.

The second idea was to set a path to the role, making the role look like moving over some physical objects, and these objects may be boxes, coloured glasses, or cellophane. Because we expected that might create some amazing abstract visual effect through these materials. Our group also considered whether this idea was meaningless or lack of storyline. After the tutorial, the tutors gave us the advice is that the viewers probably are looking forward to get some feelings, information and ideas from the work. Therefore, we started to think what is the concept and what kind of information we want to convey to the audience.

The concept of the developed idea is it’s a work which is for public good, specifically in caring physical health. All of us were give the ideas and solutions about it. We cast aside the idea of use the cellophane and glasses to create colourful reflections, and considered to use the cigarette packets, alcohol bottles and something looks like drugs instead. The character climbed and jumped over them is to represent an effort to get rid of the difficulties that need to be overcome.

For the visual effect, we expect that audience could focus on each bad habit one by one, thus the decision is to separate the image into three columns, the light will follow the character's motion and be projected on each object respectively.

(Storyboard written by Hannah Hyde)

Bao walks into the museum. He walks around and sees an interesting piece. He catches a glimpse of something out of the corner of his eye. He approaches it with caution.

There is a projector hanging from the ceiling angled towards the opposite wall. Against the wall are objects representing the vices of humanity. They are placed on top of individual stands/columns. First there is a wine bottle standing upright. Then a foot away on the 2nd stand is a box of cigarettes and then three individual cigarettes pointing upright. Then a foot away is the third object - an item representing drugs.

Bao looks at the three items. Bao has a pretty clear idea of what is happening and can immediately identify the items.

There is a character on the far bottom left. The background starts at sunset. He starts walking and the first panel lights up. He has to climb over the wine bottle. Then he makes it to the second level, and the first panel goes dark. He now has to walk and jump across the cigarettes, balancing on each one. Then he makes it to the this level, where he has to waddle slowly through white powder and then pull himself out at the end. Then the sun is rising and he is able to greet his companion. They walk off screen happily hand in hand to the right.

Bao feels a sense of suspense while watching the character struggle through the obstacles. He is rooting for the character to succeed. He also feels a sense of triumph when the character does succeed and walks off with his companion. He understands the piece is showing the difficulty of addiction and trials of life.

After we developing all the three ideas, we voted and chose the first idea. The following is the reasons why we did not choose idea 2: • It is not that necessary to use physical objects to express the information. • The meaning is not as deep as idea 1. • Lack of challenging than other ideas.

－Xian Wei (Vira)

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Hannah: My Myers-Briggs Personality Type and Belbin Team Roles Results Reflected in Group Dynamics

I first took the Myers-Briggs several years ago and, honestly, the results were quite eerie. I recieved the INFJ designation. INFJ stands for Intuition, Intuition, Feeling, and Judging.

On the TypeLogic page, it says a few things that I think pertain to my work within the group.

Unlike the confining, routinizing nature of introverted sensing, introverted intuition frees this type to act insightfully and spontaneously as unique solutions arise on an event by event basis.

INFJs, like many other FJ types, find themselves caught between the desire to express their wealth of feelings and moral conclusions about the actions and attitudes of others, and the awareness of the consequences of unbridled candor.

This rare combination of vision and practicality often results in INFJs taking a disproportionate amount of responsibility in the various causes to which so many of them seem to be drawn.

They are, in fact, sometimes mistaken for extroverts because they appear so outgoing and are so genuinely interested in people...

Usually self-expression comes more easily to INFJs on paper, as they tend to have strong writing skills.

Being an INFJ, I am particularly sensitive to how my actions are percieved by others. So I am very conscious of how I speak to people, even if I’m not always able to filter myself. I try and work hard to make sure everyone’s opinons and views are heard and they have the opportunity to participate.

While I don’t feel I have taken on a ‘disproportionate amount of responsibility‘, I feel I have taken on sort of the ‘Group Organizer’ role because of my tendency to write everything down, keep lists, and make sure communications are clear. (Hence why I’m always the one sending at least three texts in the group chat at a time.) In group work, I like when tasks are defined and expectations are made known. It is impossible for people to meet or surpass expectations when you have never communicated them in the first place.

Because I’ve taken on this role, I know it looks like I am much more extroverted than I really am, which is something unique of INFJs.

This relates to my Belbin Team Roles results which gave me ~85 in Co-ordinator (Aware of priorities. Encourages others.) , ~82 in Implementer (Efficient and likes structured working) , and ~74 in Teamworker (Works well with others, is perceptive and diplomatic).

References:

Butt, J. (2010). INFJ Profile. [online] Typelogic.com. Available at: http://www.typelogic.com/infj.html [Accessed 31 Jan. 2018].

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Group Reflection: 24 Jan 24 - Developing and Pitching our Ideas

Written by Hannah.

Following our meeting on 16 Jan, our session on 17 Jan, and our trips to Lumiere London, we had plenty more inspiration to flesh out our three ideas more and to prepare them to pitch to Ian and Alan in our group tutorial. We got the last tutorial slot, so we had plenty of time to use to explore our ideas further.

We worked really well to pitch ideas and inspiration from things we had seen, read, or researched previously. One of the best things about our group communication is that no one is ever made to feel like their ideas weren’t valuable or worth exploring.

We fleshed out from our preliminary ideas and were given feedback about how our audience may see them:

Idea 1: layering 2 images

Layering colours, patterns, lines, shapes - 2 projectors

someone blocks 1 projector to reveal something, and then they block other

2 images equally strong to create a mixture of both 1 image overlay the other - block the stronger one

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - Ursula Le Guin - layering of the towns (suggested by Vira)

3D glasses - showing the real/not real images - They Live movie (suggested by Sean)

screen in between 2 projectors - tracing paper or layout paper - something transparent

facing opposite directions on paper (suggsted by Nadia)

Alan remarked that in this idea, the audience is more playful since they are in control by covering up one of the projectors. This gave us more thought into how we wanted them to discover they needed to cover up one of the projectors.

Idea 2: a character moving on a physical object

character moving through stories on boxes/cubes

goes over physical obstacles the silhouette is there but the background will change

white with black background walking around

body is darker than the background

animated story - not just walking back and forth

Alan remarked that here, our audience is watching the story unfold, which gave us more to think about the narrative we wanted to tell, since the audience experience would be more about the feelings evoked from what they were watching.

Idea 3: projections on a dress

projection on dress/fabric

plain white dress on mannequin

changing patterns making it look like fire, water - elements

Hunger Games

JLo dress

Alan & Ian’s reactions to the third idea we presented were the strongest of the three.

something on the face

changing the character

potentially to wear the piece - work out the performance

is there a cohesive narrative? story to it or an issue?

dealing with an issue of women in the world

figures are given their idea by a surface appearance

became a portrait - for anybody

performance controls time and attention

projection doesn’t have to be on all the time, creating tensions

audience is working out what is going on

In our conversation after tutorial, we all thought is was really interesting that this idea was the one they had the most to say about since this idea was the one we overall had developed the least at this point.

All of the feedback we recieved, questions we were asked, and other ideas given were really valuable to us. We now had to think about the audience’s experience and their perspective. How would they interact with each exhibit? What would they see? What would they feel?

We answered these questions by storyboarding each idea in our next meeting. Each will be posted separately.

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Group Reflection: Session 2 (17 Jan) - Building the Baskets

All images, videos, and text by Hannah.

After the lecture portion, each group was given two challenges. The first, to take a posterboard and to cut it so that each piece was half the size of the piece before it. We were given some time to plan our method and then a short time to carry it out.

In this portion, we really showed how decisive we could be. We tried a few different things, but landed on how we would cut fairly quickly after Vira sketched out an example that showed us we could get at least 12 pieces of paper.

Then came the actual cutting.

We started out with two of us cutting, thinking we could pass the paper back and forth, but ultimately it was more efficient for one person to cut and the others to arrange the pieces. We adapted fairly quickly when running into this issue.

After this activity, we moved into our favorite - creating a container that would protect an egg from being dropped from the window to the ground below.

We had quite a while to plan, so we each threw out ideas on how to use the different elements in our bags. Again, we were able to work together and decide how he wanted to proceed.

At the end, we had a group reflection time on our process and came up with these observations abour our work process over the two challenges:

everybody gave contributions and ideas

found different solutions

we combined ideas to make successful outcome

found quick solutions to rising problems

we divided the work and helped each other when needed, or when someone’s task was complete

relied on our intuition and innate skills

good teamwork!

only problem - found quick solution

good safety and risk w

orked through multiple ideas and adapted as needed,

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Nadejda- Projection Mapping with Fashion

In this project designers Proforma- Nicola Buttari and Martino Chiti combined projection mapping with fashion. The video shows glitches on a white surfaced dress that change patterns due to its reactions to sound. The idea shows an incredible fashion statement by changing styles due to the different sound effects.

Source: Creators. (2018). Projection-Mapped Dresses Are Sound Visualizers You Can Wear. [online] Available at: https://creators.vice.com/en_uk/article/aen7pe/projection-mapped-dresses-are-sound-visualizers-you-can-wear [Accessed 24 Jan. 2018].

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