Discovery Channel

The Ident below shows a piece of work that Motion Foundry created.


http://motionfoundry.com.au/

Channel Ident

For our new brief we have been given the task of creating a 10 second channel ident.  For this brief although it's not compulsory to create a 3D ident, its been suggested that  it might be an ideal time to use 3D.

I really fancy having a play at using 3D in this project and when given this brief one of the first channels that I thought of was the Discovery channel. I've been looking at the Discovery Channel at a lot of the idents are succinct and too the point. We have only been given 10 seconds of time to play with, so what we create needs to do the same.

Thoughtful Talk

Visiting Lecture: Thoughtful
16/02/10

Stu and Chris from Thoughtful came and gave us a talk in which they ran through their history as designers and how 'Thoughtful' came about. I think out of all of the talks that we've had it was the most honest. They weren't afraid to tell us the problems that they have had instead of just the positives.

They started of by introducing the different things that interested them, not just design realted but also other asspects. One thing that they said was that they keep scrapbooks, which is something which I started collecting stuff for a while ago but never got around to it. Maybe I might do now! They said that sometimes when your stuck for an idea going back to one of the scrapbooks could be the perfect way to get them out of a rut.

They showed us videos of how they went about projects in the form of a video diary. This is something which they said had been important to them and something that they wanted to continue doing. Not only does it show them engaging with the brief, but that there getting involved to the nth degree.

Thoroughout the presentation they had video questions from designers and people of interest. These acted as words of wisdom and really broke the presentation up. At the end of the lecture they were happy to answer any questions, evern after that lots of us stayed behind as they wanted advice from us on how the presentation could be better as they were doing it again later in this month.

http://www.stashmedia.tv/

Audio

Although I considered the option of using a poem as a voice over I have decided to use natural city sounds. I went out this weekend and the previous one, in order to collect sounds. However, in terms of hand in I didn't have time to use these for the piece, but this is what I intend on doing for submitting the piece to competition.

Book Referencing

Postcode links?

I'm going to have a look at drawing parallels between the coding references on books and that of postcodes.

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Audio

I've been thinking about how I could use audio within the piece that I'm going to create. Initially I thought that I would like to find some music which create the right mood. In a group crit today we talked about creating the sense of mood and getting the right feel for the piece, in order to set the tone.

Heres an example of a poem I found relating to the city:
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/in-the-city