Lee - Evaluation

The brief we were set was that we had to create an interactive interface where the viewer/audience could interact either by playing games or pressing buttons. I began by collecting research on different interactive designs on websites. I found some interesting techniques and designs through my research I liked the idea of having animation or motion-tweens within my work. I began my design ideas revolving the disaster around meteors as I felt they were something different to the global warming idea that has been associated in the news lately.

The skills I have used are creating password and a scoring game as well as
I have used different skills creating a shooting game which involved using invisible buttons and creating scores so the player could keep keep a score of points. I really liked the idea of creating something this interactive and I had a lot of fun making it but found it challenging to keep track of the coding.

I think my weaknesses in this were the coding, I found it very difficult to keep track of what had to be added and what was needed in the coding. I think I struggled with coding but I think stress got to me in this project as I wasn't able to get my head around what had to be done within flash.

I like my idea for my design, I like the rough cartoon style of it which contrasts to dark and mysterious room in pitch black at the beginning of the design but I think it was let down by in terms of the execution as it didn't come together as well as I had hoped, but I hope for the next project I will be able to successfully create an interesting design as well as executing it well and effectively.

lee - Research

Here are examples of bomb shelters as I thought these would be appropriate in my research, as one of ideas is having a bunker after a meteor strike has happened.
The rooms are cramped and tends to be only one small room with everything within it, such as food and the beds. The shelters are always underground, so I think a stairway or ladder would be appropriate in my design, as well as the room/rooms not being decorated properly they are just the raw materials and the necessaries within the room.

This could be the view of outside the bunker if I decide to create an outside to my design, I think the grassed over effect would add to the authenticity of the shelter.

lee - Research

Here are two different meteors I like the glow on the left picture as it makes it look more appealing and mysterious.
Whereas the one on the right looks like it could be a rocket with the bright white light behind it.
I think I may use the glowing light within my design because I think it is more eye-catching and more visually interesting as it isn't just plain.

Lee - Research

A meteor is a bright streak of light that appears briefly in the sky. Observers often call meteors shooting stars or falling stars because they look like stars falling from the sky. People sometimes call the brightest meteors fireballs. A meteor appears when a particle or chunk of metallic or stony matter called a meteoroid enters the earth's atmosphere from outer space. Air friction heats the meteoroid so that it glows and creates a shining trail of gases and melted meteoroid particles. The gases include vaporized meteoroid material and atmospheric gases that heat up when the meteoroid passes through the atmosphere. Most meteors glow for about a second.

Most meteoroids disintegrate before reaching the earth. But some leave a trail that lasts several minutes. Meteoroids that reach the earth are called meteorites.

Millions of meteors occur in the earth's atmosphere every day. Most meteoroids that cause meteors are about the size of a pebble. They become visible between about 40 and 75 miles (65 and 120 kilometers) above the earth. They disintegrate at altitudes of 30 to 60 miles (50 to 95 kilometers).

Meteoroids travel around the sun in a variety of orbits and at various velocities. The fastest ones move at about 26 miles per second. The earth travels at about 18 miles per second (29 kilometers per second). Thus, when meteoroids meet the earth's atmosphere head-on, the combined speed may reach about 44 miles per second.

Meteor showers

The earth meets a number of streams (trails) or swarms (clusters) of tiny meteoroids at certain times every year. At such times, the sky seems filled with a shower of sparks. Streams and swarms have orbits like those of comets and are believed to be fragments of comets.

The most brilliant meteor shower known took place on Nov. 12-13, 1833. It was one of the Leonid showers, which occur every November and seem to come from the direction of the constellation Leo.

Meteorites

There are three kinds of meteorites, stony, iron, and stony-iron. Stony meteorites consist of minerals rich in silicon and oxygen, with smaller amounts of iron, magnesium, and other elements. One group of stony meteorites, called chondrites, are pieces of the same material from which the planets formed. Another group of stony meteorites, the achondrites, were once part of a parent body, such as an asteroid, that was large enough to have melted and separated into an iron-rich core and a stony crust. Achondrites come from the outer crust; stony-iron meteorites, from the inner crust; and iron meteorites, from the metallic core. Iron meteorites consist mostly of iron and nickel. Stony-iron meteorites have nearly equal amounts of silicon-based stone and iron-nickel metal.

The size of meteorites varies greatly. Most of them are relatively small. The largest meteorite ever found weighs about 66 short tons (60 metric tons). It fell at Hoba West, a farm near Grootfontein, Namibia. However, much larger bodies, such as asteroids and comets, can also strike the earth and become meteorites.

Meteorites reach the earth's surface because they are the right size to travel through the atmosphere. If they are too small, they will disintegrate in the atmosphere. If they are too large, they may explode before reaching the earth's surface. One such object exploded about 6 miles (10 kilometers) above the Tunguska River in Siberia in 1908, leaving a 20-mile (32-kilometer) area of felled and scorched trees.

Thousands of small meteorites have been found in Antarctica, providing a rich supply of specimens for scientists to study. Scientists study meteorites for clues to the types of material that formed the planets.

Impact craters and basins

When large bodies such as asteroids and comets strike a planet, they produce an impact crater or impact basin. Impact craters are bowl-shaped depressions that measure up to about 10 miles (25 kilometers) in diameter. They have shallow, flat floors and uplifted centers. Impact basins are larger, and inside their rims there are one or more rings on the planet's surface.

Scientists have found more than 120 impact craters and basins on the earth. One of the most famous, the Meteor Crater in Arizona, is about 4,180 feet (1,275 meters) across and 570 feet (175 meters) deep. It formed nearly 50,000 years ago when an iron meteorite weighing 330,000 short tons (300,000 metric tons) struck the earth.

Most impact craters and basins larger than the Meteor Crater are heavily worn away or have been buried by rocks and dirt as the earth's surface changed. The largest known of these is the Chicxulub (CHEEK shoo loob) Basin centered in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. The diameter of the basin is about 190 miles (300 kilometers). Rock samples obtained by drilling into the basin indicate that an asteroid struck the earth there about 65 million years ago. This was about the time the last dinosaurs became extinct. The impact hurled much debris into the sky. Many scientists believe this debris caused climate changes that the dinosaurs could not survive.

Scanning Media

Here I used the scanner to scan in the textures I needed to for my designs as well as textures that I ended up not using.

I altered the size on the preview of the scanned image so it cut out the area I didn't need using the crop tool I then selected finish and this began the scan.

Digital - Evaluation

For this project we were asked to create a digital story to do with ‘the beginning of the end’ then the chosen subject we could decide, I chose the beginning of the end of hope. I started by researching into things that I thought of when I thought of hope, such as doves and researching different graphic designers and illustrators to give me ideas, which I could create into the six designs. This gave me the idea of actually using the dove, as it is the main thing that appears in my mind when I think of hope so I thought by using the dove in a disturbing way.

I mainly used scanned images in my design such as the background and the drawn doves. Then within Photoshop I experimented with different effects such as hue saturation and vibrancy.

My main inspirations for my designs were Patrick Boyer and Tayla Baldwin as there designs focused on soft backgrounds, which allowed the drawings and photos to be vibrant and stand out. The backgrounds tended to be a mixture of watercolour and texture and I liked the effect so I wanted my designs to have a similar effect.

I like my final designs I think they display the message I wanted them to portray, I think the mix of media works well with the message as I wanted it to be quite rough and unpolished with my subject of hope, so I didn’t want it to look perfect I wanted it to display how the ‘seems were coming undone’.

However I think the sound, which accompanies the movie isn’t clear enough as it from my own digital camera in hindsight I would ensure that the sound was of top quality as I think it doesn’t seem as if it has had time and effort put into it.

I think my time keeping from the last project has improved and I have been more involved in other activities such as drawing and painting more than I had previously, this project really inspired me terms of creativity.

For the next project I want to eliminate the need to procrastinate which will allow me to focus all my attention on my work.