Don't break the egg!

In Ian's lecture, we looked at Belbin and his theory on 'roles within a group'; such roles as team leader and co-ordinator. We did a questionnaire which made us answer what we would do in certain situations within a group. The answers matched us to certain roles, according to Belbin's theory; my highest scores put me as a team leader, monitor evaluator and completer finisher.

Ian assigned us a task to see if Belbin's theory was correct. We were given two balloons, two sheets of paper, a piece of string, cello-tape, a pair of scissors and a uncooked egg! Our job was to make something that would protect the egg from breaking when we threw it out the window. We had 20 minutes. Huseyin took the lead and came up with some really good ideas, whilst Hu took notes and made valuable sketches that made it easier for us to visualize. Then I came up with the idea that if we made sure that the egg was in the middle of the two balloons, nothing would hit the egg when thrown. We made another sketch to see if it would work and everybody agreed on that plan. As the boys were making, I was keeping a close eye on the time and a close eye on the egg (we nearly broke it before it even got to the window!).

Once we had the egg placed securely in the middle of the two balloons, we decided on wrapping padding around the whole thing, just for extra bounce.


Time was up! We just finished on time but we were really happy with the result. Hu was our thrower, when it was thrown it came down quicker than I thought it would of; I thought game over! Huseyin checked and our egg was not broken!


Looking back on Belbin's theory, I thought all of us related to it in some way, as Huseyin was 'team leader', he took charge and made sure everybody was happy. Hu was our 'plant', he came up with our creative diagrams and was there when to solve difficult problems. I was the 'completer finisher' as I was the one to push to get it finished on time. However, the main thing I noticed for myself was I was very competitive, even though it was just an egg!

Here our video!

Leanne 

Urban Projection

Trying to research for video urban landscape, I stumbled across this and I thought it was great. Set up by Up Projects, M-O-T-H are video graffiti artists who use wearable projector units so they can project anywhere and everywhere.

Picture taken form: http://severalbees.com/moth

In choosing this picture, was that in such hostile urban environment, light (projection) can make something look so beautiful and different. I feel this relates back to emotion, where projection changes the mind to think differently about something. Or moreover, the sense of ‘more than meets the eye’.

Maybe we could take a few photographs and maybe make a short video of hostile urban environments and project Hu’s ‘emotion’ animations on top to change the feeling of the image.

Website: http://severalbees.com/moth

From the website above, I done a little more research on ‘M-O-T-H’ and the image above was from a series where the ‘M-O-T-H’ projectors went around projecting on different backgrounds.

These projectors (see video below) can change the mood of a building, make people laugh, look and be intrigued by images. 

M-O-T-H VIDEO


Leanne

Projection Ideas - Single Projection

Huseyin Hamit

Below I have created a single projection within a boxed room and curtains on the front door to keep light out of the room whilst the projector is being played. This is a very basic idea of how I believe many people would expect to see a projected image within a room. 

Tomorrow we will be experimenting with projectors to see what will work best for us and I will be updating these designs below on the computer.

Designs created using - Sketch up program

Huseyin Hamit

Urban Landscape - Pictures & Abstract

Huseyin Hamit

In the last session Hu mentioned looking at urban landscapes/cityscapes in an abstract way as you will see from his posts on the blog and the video he has produced it creates a deeper understanding to what is trying to be said within his work in relation to the character within the animation created which can also be related to the viewer of the exhibition since when looking at something abstract it creates a sense of curiosity.

Below I have included some of my images in relation to an urban landscape which I think would be great to use as a background with the animation being within the foreground. I also believe that since Leanne works with film a recording of an urban landscape transitioning into a motionless image whilst the motion of the animation is within the foreground could relate to the sense of abstract mentality of how we may see and adapt to an urban landscape.

Original Images

Edited Black & White Abstract Style Images

As you can see below the images which I took above have been edited to almost look as if they are shapes rather than something structural such as a standard photograph like the ones above. This was done to create a sense of illusion since abstract does relate to what's in your mind certain shapes and forms created within your mind can become anything you want it to become.

For this particular Image only half of it was edited since I wanted to show the relation between something which looks or may seem real against something which you may see as an idea of a specific drawing which also relates to the animation side of Hu's work since a drawing is created within the mind and may not look exactly the same as the real thing would where as a picture does this much better even though it is also not exactly how the real view may be its still closer to the real thing.

Colour Experimentation

Below I have added certain colours to the images which were edited above since I believe this gives the image a more abstract like sense and since what Hu has been working on seems very colourful I believe these images as backgrounds could be of good use in relation to it all.

Huseyin Hamit

Emotion with abstract emotional graphic

Because I am a shaper , so I can easily do many abstract motion graphic like this in flash cs4.o.They are angry, enjoyable,boring and fun.These motion graphics may be used in the exhibition. 

 from Hu Yuanji

My idea for exhibition in animation part

I just edit my practice 1 whole works for a new one. But the theme is urban space , and urban crime. Each part contact with the mental landscape of the main character. It can be called "Urban Game". We can discuss how to use the animation as a background. because it can be just a abstract motion graphic looking style.--Hu

Video Installation - Spider Projection

Huseyin Hamit

As I have been searching online at projections and video installations I stumbled upon this particular video which was quite interesting. The video consists of a spider being recorded within a square box the sides and top of the box being glass which replicates a similar room that the video installation will be played in. As you will see from the video the way it is done is by recording something small but enlarging the recorded video and projecting it within a much larger room creating a very different effect since we know that spiders cannot be that large the size difference really makes a big impact on the viewer as if a very large spider is trying to escape which changes our perception of the spider and the space it is being projected within.

Huseyin Hamit