Sunday, October 16, 2011

Week 13 - Final Studio

  • Presentations Next Week: Monday, 2pm, 24th October - BE ON TIME AND READY TO PRESENT! (presentations to be held in the Level 5 Studios in your normal Studio Groups). You will each have 5-10 minutes to present, including questions and answers.
  • Get feedback on you Second Draft poster.
  • Continue to polish, finalise and finish your designs and models, continuing to create content that will be included in your final presentations.
  • Remember to capture images of your work in progress.
  • You are expected to continue refining your models, posters and representation technology experiences in the final week before submission, and evidence of your progression should be posted to your blog.
  • I will be available for private consultations to review your work before submission on request.
  • See you for presentations!
  • Good Luck!

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Week 12 and Independent Study for Week 13

  • Due to the Public Holiday, there will be a 1 week extension on the submission date for Assignment 2.
  • The new due date is: Monday, 2pm, 24th October (presentations to be held in the Level 5 Studios).
  • Write a first draft of your text to be included in your PDF. (The minimum of 500 words does not include titles and references). Post your text to your blogs.
  • Get feedback on the various elements of your projects, and keep working on aspects that need resolution.
  • As you develop and finalise parts of your designs, consider your re-design in ever more detail to bring your project to life.
  • Get all tasks up to date on your blogs. Post process pictures of your developing work to your blog.

Independent Study

  • Create a detailed second draft of your poster with all main elements considered. Include low quality image place-holders of your intended final renders and images, and low quality versions of your embedded videos and 3D models. Also include your draft text as you intend your final text to be related to your images and content, and an early understanding of how interactivity will be achieved across your presentation.
  • Upload a PDF version of your second draft PDF to a file sharing site, and include a link on your blog. Also include image captures of your 3 x A1 PDF pages on your blog.
  • Continue to polish, finalise and finish your designs and models, starting to create content that will be included in your final presentations.
  • Remember to capture images of your work in progress.

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Week 11 and Independent Study for Week 12

  • Monday, October 3rd – Public Holiday

Independent Study

  • Using the representation styles discovered from research into your case study on your chosen architecture, your A3 montage and the graphic grid you developed for Week 11 as a basis, create a first draft layout for your final 3 page A1 PDFs. A draft should go much further than your basic grid, starting to think about image content and placement, text, colour, orientation, capturing the eye, etc. and how the various elements and media on your pages all relate together.
  • As you develop your layout, you will need to think about your Interactive PDF on two levels; as a set of posters that can be viewed from a distance, and as an interactive digital presentation, that can be navigated around and viewed on a small screen for detailed scrutiny.
  • For your final hand in you will submit two PDF's, an interactive PDF that will incorporate all of your multi-media elements (this would be the version that a client would view on a small screen), and a print version PDF, that will only have elements that would be printed (this would be the version that a client would print out for display panels). This means that you will need to consider which elements will be printed, and provide the necessary settings to make this achievable. It is not necessary to actually print your posters, unless printed media is required for your intended presentations.
  • Bring your individual re-envisioned models to a high degree of modelling resolution, in preparation for obtaining high quality renders, raw video footage for video editing purposes, quality models for embedded 3D content in your final PDF, and use for your 3rd representation format.
  • Post interior and exterior image captures of your developing models to your blog.
  • Get all tasks up to date on your blogs. Post process pictures of your developing work to your blog.