In the previous blog I had told you all about the assignments and made you wonder what the assignments were. I hope I had mentioned about the project RETURN and FOUND as we had got them before Christmas but in case if I didn’t I will tell you in brief about all the assignments in different subjects and will let also show it the final outcome.
RETURN: In this project we were supposed to concern ourselves with ‘the local’ and find something to return to each week, and create 12 artifacts based on it. I choose to return to money every week and see the various unnecessary ways in which we spend money I wanted to create the artifacts in different media and different aspects and most of them were very similar in creation i.e. design.
FOUND: We were asked to brainstorm what we think of or relate to when we hear found, and then asked to create a design where the word found is clearly visible. Hence in this design I have tried to consider the word found and also includes a social cause of save trees. I tried to create an animation but was not able to create one which I like hence ended up creating a story-board. The story is about how a squirrel losses his house that is a tree, and then always for almost 20 times manages to find a new tree. This is where I have tried to bring in the word found. And then the squirrel ends up homeless as we humans keep on cutting down more and more trees till there are no trees left in the neighbourhood.
CODING: This is one of our subjects and this we were asked to create any two artifacts using action script, processing or php. The tough part in this was to get the idea, but as soon as I realised that we have not learnt enough to fulfil the classic ideas that I had it became much easier and clearer. I created a game called ‘The Destroyer’ which is a bit complicated game and was not able to complete it, so I presented it till where I could do and the rest as an developing idea. The other game was using action script and we all might know that game called Stone, Paper and Scissors. The other one was from the colour palette was if you choose a colour it appears on a screen. These were pretty basic but good for me as beginner to create on my own.
VISUAL STUDIES: We were given an option of around 8 projects and had to choose 2. I choose the one in which I had to create a sketch of myself and the other one was to create a caricature with 6 different facial expressions. We also had a morphing project under this subject where I have morphed a candle into a mobile phone.
GRID: The grid projects were not at all easy to do. This had three parts: 1) the tutors will give us a selected area and we need to design something based on it. 2) We choose our own grid and do the same. 3) We work in a group to create a game based on the idea of grid.
For this project I had to revisit the locations many times click regular photos for an idea to strike me to create a good work, which is true. For the first instance I created a scene which looks like a racing track inspired from the grid where I was. In the second grid I choose a place nearer to my house and created a panoramic image. The game was created with one of my Friend.
These are almost all the main design works that we did and the rest is a draft and an advertising campaign about which I will talk later on. If you want visit and see my work you can visit http://arbansal.weebly.com/portfolio.html but it is still under construction within a few weeks it will be ready.
