DSDN 144 Weekly assignments

Slow and Fast Shutter Speed

For my Slow Shutter speed photo I took it at my local beach. I set the shutter speed to 8 seconds and while the photo was being taken i moved the camera slightly to get a sort of distorted look to the photo.

For my Fast Shutter speed i took a photo of me dropping the 10 cent piece into my bathroom sink. I like this photo because it shows some of the splash just as the coin hits the water

MDDN 241 Project 1 Progress

I am getting near the end of my animation and i am liking how it is looking. After the shattering i bought all 4 pieces together to the same point and it looked somewhat like a raindrop.
The raindrop was what i thought of for my first concept and was inspired by Jason Deamers work in WALL-E. I think it would be cool if this is what i end up freezing at the end of my animation and use the ice material which i got early on

MDDN 241 Project 1 Progress

In my animation i have just finished the shatter scene. This scene was quite difficult to animate because of the fact that you cant animate an object that already has a gravity field on it. If i did animate it then it would completely ignore the gravity field and start the entire animation where i would want to animate the object.

To get around this i duplicated the ball in the spot where it stops in the hole. This happens at frame 337 so on the object with gravity i turned the visibility on until 336 and turned it off at 337 for the rest of the animation. For the duplicated object its visibility is off up to 336 and on at 337.
This lets me then animate the new object and keep the gravity working for the original object.

The shattering part was quite challenging to animate. I used the shatter tool to break it into 4 pieces and then i animated each of the pieces.  I had to keyframe the 4 peaces at several places along the times line to when its stops because it was traveling in a horizontal line and sometimes disappeared under one of the hills of floated over the holes. So i have to make it that it was skimming the surface of the plane.

DSDN 144 Project 1 Hand in

Finals

After looking through all of my photos which i took in my second and third photo shoot i have figured out the set of photos which i think show my narrative the most.

I chose these four because i believe that these four which show the idea of lifelessness because i think these four show the deserted and lonely place. I think in my photos it does show that there is no life in this station.

I think that I did quite well for my first ever photography assignment. I think that the four photos which I picked out from my shoots are the best to show the lifelessness of the station. All four of my photos came from my third shoot but some of the shots were inspired by ones which I liked from my second shoot. In the end I decided to shoot my photos in colour because I think that it adds a bit more meaning to my photos and helps show some of the more smaller details of some of the photos. Lighting at the station was quite hard to try and control for my shoots because of the lights at the station but I think that after playing around with the aperture and shutter speed I eventually managed to get a good look. There were several aspects of this project which I found quite hard, first was trying to get a day which wasn’t raining so I could take my photo, but also try and show what I wanted to show. I am glad that I did it when I did because I went by it the other day and they were completely cleaning the entire station to make it look new. But overall I am very happy with how my four finals came out and I am looking forward to experimenting more with light in the third project

CCDN 271 Assignment 1 Hand In

CCDN 271, Assignment 1

Assessing and critiquing sources                           

The Everyday essentially means the things that we use everyday, mostly things that we take for granted and have used them so much that it has just become habit for us to use them. Donald A. Norman (2004) talks in his book called ‘Emotional design: why we love (or hate) everyday things’, he talks about the emotional connection which people have with everyday objects which they own.

The book starts off with Norman discussing the fact that he has a collection of three teapots at his home. One of them is completely unusable because it has a broken handle, the second and third are useable. But he goes on to say that he doesn’t use any of the three when he makes his tea. He says that the reason why he keeps these 3 teapots even though Norman (2004) doesn’t use them, is because ‘I value my teapots not only for their function for brewing tea, but because they are sculptural artwork’ (pg4).

What Norman writes about in his book is greatly linked to my research topic of the everyday. I chose this book because he talks about how the things we use in our everyday lives might not be very practical (like the three teapots) but are things that we are attached to because they have a symbolic meaning or a emotional connection to us.

Norman adds several personal experiences of his in his book, he gives the example of when he got his first computer which had a black and white screen and once he got his first colour monitor, Norman (2004) realized that ‘color added no discernible value for everyday work. Yet I refused to give up the color display’ (pg9).  This demonstrates even more evidence which relates to my topic. That the everyday objects which we use like colour computers and broken teapots might not be practical to use, but we still keep them around because we love them.

He also goes on to talk about how it’s not only emotion that is a major factor in the everyday, but another major theme is the behavior of the human subconscious. Our subconscious is something which greatly affects the everyday things we use. We are now so used to doing the same thing everyday that we subconsciously do things automatically without realizing them. An example of this is when you get up out of bed in the morning. Most people repeat the same routine every morning that they now do it without even thinking about it.

The things Norman says in his book will help me with my research topic as he covers why we use our everyday objects over other objects which we can get that are used for the same things. Not only that, but Normans book will also help me because he uses a lot of his own examples in his book which I can quote in my research paper.

Bibliography

Norman, Donald A.. "Prologue." Emotional design: why we love (or hate) everyday things. New York: Basic Books, 2004. 3 - 1

DSDN 144 project 1 Third Shoot

In my second shoot there were some photos which i liked but not enough to put into a good collection.

So i decided to go back to Linden station and do a third photo shoot.

This time all of the photos are in colour. There are many of the same photo but they are slightly different because i was changing the shutter speed and aperture.

Open publication - Free publishing - More design

DSDN 144 Mini World

For my mini world i used the same images i used for my Panorama.
There are several of the same mini world layered on each other to get rid of the line where the 2 ends of the panorama meet.