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Digital Contexts - Practice Based Research

There are two types of practice related research: practice-based and practice-led:

If a creative artifact is the basis of the contribution to knowledge, the research is practice-based.

If the research leads primarily to new understandings about practice, it is practice-led.

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4 screen strategy & convergence

Multimedia 

single stories being told using different media, core narrative being supported by story elements spread across several types of media

The matrix is entertainment for the age of media convergence, integrating multiple texts to create a narrative so large that is cannot be contained within a single medium. 

A creative problem is how do you create a different experience across the different devices. The answer is unclear because it hasn't really been done before. 

4 Screen strategy

Its a vision being pursued by the most to tech firms in the world.

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Wireframes

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Animated Logo

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Logo Design

Initial logo design 

Final Logo Design

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Why don’t young people vote? Because school teaches us nothing about politics

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/08/young-people-vote-school-teach-politics-curriculum-election

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2017 Election Quiz

https://uk.isidewith.com/political-quiz

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How Britain voted at the 2017 general election

https://yougov.co.uk/news/2017/06/13/how-britain-voted-2017-general-election/

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Why Don’t Youth Vote? App Concept

Once we had decided on a current problem in today’s politics which is “why Don’t youth Vote?”. One main solution that could be applied to this issue is by using a dating style app such as tinder to quickly show the user policy’s that they would like to see be put in place. We decided to list a majority of current political issues. 

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Why Don’t Youth Vote?

I, Ewan and miles were put into groups based on the same interest in politics. We shared our views and concerns in today’s politics to gather an understanding of each other political standpoints. We brainstormed different ideas that we could possibly find a solution to, regarding politics.  One main issue which we all agreed on which is a massive concern in today politics is why isn’t the youth voting?

Next, we wrote down our main reason why the youth don’t vote. The points made were all accurate.This is probably due to the fact we are the youth and have an understanding of our peer group. 

With this issue decided upon we want to draw up the process of how we would go about possibly solving the issue. 

Step 1 highlighting the problem

Step 2 Research and show evidence of the problem 

Step 3 Explaining the problem/ breaking it down to its simplest form

Step 4 Research and show previous solutions/ Highlighting good and bad practices

Step 5: Present our solutions.  

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History of video and motion 80s

Reconstruction, scratch video. 

Blue Monday by The buvet brothers.

Music was used to make the message more popular and accessible to the public. 

Gorilla Tapes

Paul HardCastle - 19 

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History Experimental Video and Motion

The first time video was developed was in the Vietnam war for surveillance. Black and white in format and had to be spliced together.

Nam Jun Paik/Fluxus 

Nam June Paik was a Korean American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the founder of video art.

David Hall 

David Hall was an English artist, whose pioneering work contributed much to establishing video as an art form.

marshall mcluhan

"The medium is the message" is a phrase coined by Marshall McLuhan meaning that the form of a medium embeds itself in any message it would transmit or convey, creating a symbiotic relationship by which the medium influences how the message is perceived.

1970′s deconstruction/traditional media, traditional rolls what else? 

Different format of projecting media, an example using multiple screens.

Mick Hartney

Berthout brecht 

Eugen Berthold Friedrich "Bertolt" Brecht was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.

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Digital Context Session 3 VR - 13.02.2018

Definition of Virtual Reality

The computer-generated simulation of a three-dimensional image or environment that can be interacted with in a seemingly real or physical way by a person using special electronic equipment, such as a helmet with a screen inside or gloves fitted with sensors.

Milgram’s reality-virtuality continuum

The Virtuality Continuum is a phrase used to describe a concept that there is a continuous scale ranging between the completely virtual, a Virtual Reality, and the completely real: Reality 

Elements of VR 

Space

Speed/Movement

Sensory Containment

HUD/Interface

Proxemics is the study of human space and the effects that population density has on behaviour, communication, and social interaction.

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Monsters, Inc title sequence is more of a suitable example of a motion narrative that inspiration can be taken from and used in my animation for the kidscan brief. 

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Motion Narrative

Montage Technique

Sergei Eisenstein,circa 1929

Battleship Potemkin

 The eye follows the direction of an element. It retains a visual impression which then collides with the impression derived from following the direction of a second element. The conflict between these directions created the dynamic effect in the apprehension of the whole.

Saul Bass 

“A carefully orchestrated series of events interplaying with music and typography to create an appropriate mood”. 

We come in peace, that’s why we’re here. Isn’t that the whole idea of Starfleet?

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virtual reality is revolutionising medicine and healthcare

Virtual reality is a piece of current technology which is a possible solution to help reduce the strain and cost of the medical field.  Studies which have already taken place show that it could be very effective and promising.  I’ve listed some examples below. 

Exposure therapy

One treatment for patients with phobias is exposure therapy. In one instance, psychiatrists at the University of Louisville are using VR to help patients deal with fears of things like flying and claustrophobia.

The VR experiences provide for a controlled environment in which patients can face their fears and even practice coping strategies, as well as breaking patterns of avoidance — all while in a setting that's private, safe, and easily stopped or repeated, depending on the circumstances.

Treatment for PTSD

Similar to exposure therapy for phobias and anxieties, virtual reality is being put to use to help soldiers with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

More recently, clinics and hospitals are using virtual reality simulations of warfare akin to Iraq and Afghanistan to help veterans who are, in many ways, continually reliving the traumatic events they experienced. In a safe and controlled environment, they can learn how to deal with instances that might otherwise be triggers to behavior that could be destructive to themselves and others.

Surgical training

Virtual reality could provide another means of practice, without any risk to real patients.Stanford University, for one, has a surgery simulator that even includes haptic feedback for those doing the training. Stanford's endoscopic sinus surgery simulation uses CT scans from patients to create 3D models for practice, and it's been in use since 2002. While this technology doesn't use a head mounted display, the groundwork that's been done could further the effectiveness of future virtual simulations.

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Digital Contexts Brief

In this module, the main aim of the project assessment will involve students working on a small scale technology-based application of a set project brief. This will be carried out under supervision. Themes to explore include: Health,Education(primary/secondary/HE),training,politics,art,entertainment, warfare etc... I will be assessed on a technical level( choice of technology, and level of utilization/implementation) as well as a creative level ( choice and justification of concept.