Research Design & New Media

RESEARCHINGDESIGN

NEW&MEDIA

LOUISE HAYCOCKSwww.lolweez.gdnm.org

RESEARCHING DESIGN & NEW MEDIA

4-5 Brief 5: My Stop Motion

6-7 Brief 5: Love Game

8-9 Brief 5: Questions & Answers

RESEARCHING DESIGN & NEW MEDIA 3

10-11 Brief 5: Sams Answers

12-13 Brief 5: The Interviews

14-15 Brief 5: The Reactions

16-17 Brief 9: Research

20-22 Brief 9: Profiles

18-19 Brief 9: ProfileDrawings

RESEARCHING DESIGN & NEW MEDIA4


This is my stop motion that I created for one of my previous briefs. The task was to create a stop motion that related to a physical movement or set of movements. I chose the words‘unfold’and‘tear’.Ifeltthatthesewordsrelated to origami hence the paper crane. This is one of the piece that I chose to show to this piece of work because I wanted to see the way thatpeoplerespondedtosomethingthat’sgotquite a simple meaning and a easy technique.


“Shakedown - Love Game” animation created by Baptiste Jaquemet, 2010.

I looked through a lot of different videos from all three books that we were asked to look at but in the end I decided to focus onabookcalled‘MotionBlur2’.Idecidedtofocusonthisbookmore than the others because of the style, it seemed more modern and suited my personal taste more. As you can see this video that I have picked it quite graphic at points but this is why I chose it. I also chose it because the style and the story kind of contrasted in the sense that cartoons are usually for children and therefore they are clean. However this story of this couple and how their relationship progressed and then comes crashing down is perhaps too realistic, unlike childrens stories.


1. how does the colour scheme effect the image?2. do these images trigger off any memories, if yes please explain3. does it remind you of anything in particular? if so, what? where?4. do you get a feeling of suspense? why?5. do you get a feeling of anticipation? why?6. do you get a feeling of revelation? why?7. whatsthefirstwordthatpopsintoyourheadwhenyouseetheseimages?why?8. how does each piece of work make you feel?9. are there any components that don’t work, elaborate?10. does the compositional strategies is suitable to each piece of work?11. whatdoyouthinkwasthemaininfluenceandpurposeofthesepiecesofwork?12. how much would you pay to come see my work, and if you would consider it, to buy my work?13. does the font and how it’s used convey any emotion to you?14. how long do you think this piece of work took to create?15. where do you think these pieces of work came from, culturally?16. at what points in the work do you feel suspense, anticipation and revelation?17. where can you see yourself in 5 years time, after looking at this piece of work?18. how many people do you think created this piece of work?19. were your feelings from the beginning different to the end of the animation?20. do you feel like the work relates to you or your lifestyle?21. would you choose to watch this?22. where do you think you’d see this?23. does the work offend you?

suspense, revelation and anticipation?

where there any parts of either pieces of work where you feel there was an element of suspense?

idea: film the people as they watch/look on each piece of work – do it secretly maybe so that they don’t feel shy and it’s a more

reliable response <<< do a little collage of peoples reactions, maybe see if i can film on laptop secretly.

then record peoples voices on their thoughts – so that this is completely reliable.

maybe even do an animation of written notes to what some people think.

film their body language as they talk. <<<

actual 1. can you describe briefly what you saw?

2. what do you think the purpose might be for each piece?

3. does the work reveal anything to you or give you an insight into anything?

if so, what?4. is it personal to you or just anything?

5. with each image, do you feel a certain emotion?

6. if each piece of work was to change into a different sort of medium/media, do you think this would effect your

feelings about the piece and why?

7. does the font and how its used convey any emotion to you?

8. what's the first word that pops into your head when you see each of these pieces of work?

9. do these images trigger any memories?

if so what?10. are there any components that you feel don't fit the piece of work?

which bits and why?

11. how does the colour scheme effect you?

what does it make you feel?

12. how the colours are used as well, does that have any effect at all?

13. how much would you pay to come see this work?

14. how much would you pay to buy it?

15. does this offend you in anyway??

17. do either of these pieces of work make you think deeper into any thoughts?

any particular thoughts/debates going on in your mind right now?

18. which piece of work would you say evokes the most emotion?

why?19. do you feel like either of these pieces convey some sort of message?

20. if you'd seen these pieces of work again and again a few times over do you think your emotions towards the pieces

of work would change from the first time you'd seen it?

8


This shows some of the preparation that I did before hand. On the top left is a draft of the questions that I could potentially ask participants and below that is the actual questions that I asked them and also a bit of my thinking of what way I could record this information. Above is myrecordingofSams’answerstothequestionsthatIaskedhimoverskype.Ididn’trecordhisinterviewbyvideobecauseIfeltthatusingskypemaymakeitdifficulttohearhisanswersbecausehismicrophonewasn’tthatgreat.


Here is a little animation thatIcreatedtoshowSams’answers in what I hoped would be a visually interesting. The way I created it makes it looks like someone is writing it. I also experimented a bit at the beginning with my own voiceoveralittleGIFfilethatIfound on tumblr and recreated to work with my voice.


Here are a few screenshots of another video that I did. This is where I interviewed my friends. I kept them in a setting they were comfortable in,hencewhyJoshissmoking.IalsothoughtI’dfocusontheirbodyreactions whilst i talked to them and I let them know this so they wouldn’tbetoselfconciousinfrontofthecamera.


EVALUATION

I also created another video which focused on the reactions that I got frommyparticipants.I’veincludedclipsfrombothvideosthatIgotthem to watch so you can see where they reacted roughly and follow it a bit more.

Ivideo’edmostpeoplebutbecauseIwasabitshortonpeopleIdecidedtotrydoinganinterviewoverskype.Ivideo’edmyfriends’reactions over skype and then asked him to write down the answers so that i had a bit of a variation as well. I only did this once because I wouldn’tsureifit’dworkornot.Firstly, I chose 20 questions that I could ask people from a list of random questions that we made in groups. I found how to gather the informationabitdifficultbecauseIwasntsurehowtopresentitlateron. I came up with a few ideas on what I could look at it and what to focus on. In the end I chose to look at peoples body language and reactions.My own video that I chose to use was my stop motion from brief 4 and myothervideoIchosewas‘LoveGame-Shakedown’fromthebookmotion blur 2, I chose this one because of the sex scenes and because I thought I could get a variety of different reactions from people, especially from this video in particular. I also thought that these 2 videos that I had picked contrasted quite alot in the different techniques usedandalsothestoriesineachvideoIwasn’tabletogetallthepeoplethatIwantedtoget,soIthinknexttimeI’llgivepeoplemorenotice before hand and plan myself out better.OverallI’mquitepleasedwithhowmyvideosturnedoutbecauseIfeelthatIdidwhatIhadsetouttodowhichwastofindoutthewaypeopleresponded to these pieces of work.


This is my research for brief 9. After focusing on body reactions and facial expressions in breif 5 I chose to look at what shocks people most nowadays. For this I brainstormed what I thought could shock people and from this I then went onto look at images online that I found intersting, disturbing or shocking. I picked a variety of images thinking that different things shock different people, so I kept an open mind at this point. I then came up with a couple of questions that I could ask a few different people and also thought of dif-ferent ways that I could show this information and gather it. These included graphs, videos, written words, surveys and photos. In the end I chose to just ask people and they could answer in their own time - this meant that I could get some longer answers which meant a deeper insight into their thinking.


I chose to present their answers as illustrations and written words. Here I gatheredpicturesfrommypaticipantsfacebookprofilesandredrewthemsothat it suited the style that I was aiming for. Also below are the images i chose to use. I chose these particular images because I felt they all differed from each other but were equally intense.


EVALU

ATIO

N

22

The responses that I got from various people varied however what did surprise me was that with the girls, thesameimageseemedtoshockthemboth.Idon’tknow whether this is down to maternal instincts or each persons personality. On the other hand the boys were all shocked by different images. This shows me that what is considered to be shocking varies on the person and also that we have desensitized to alot of thingsthatwewould’vefoundshocking50yearsago.OverallI’mquitehappywithhowIhavepresentedmyresearchbecauseit’svisuallyinterestingandifoundthesubjectitselfquiteinteresting.HoweverIwould’veliked to have seen each participants reaction to the imageswhentheyfirstsawthembecauseIfeelthatitwould’vebeeninterestingandalsomaybegivenme a different answer to the ones that they put down becausetheparticipantswouldn’thavehadthetimeto look deeper into the pictures and what they are.


OVERALL

23

Overall I have managed to show my research in a variety of ways, including animation,videoandillustration.I’dalsosaythat I have gathered qualitative research rather than quantative, although for some questionsmyparticipantsdidn’tunderstandthe questions sometimes which made it hard for them to answer. This is something thatI’dneedtoworkoninfuture.AlsosomethingelseI’dconsiderdoingitperhapsgathering more quantative research than qualitative to see how that differs from what I’vedonehere.

EVALUATION

Research Design & New Media

Documents

Transcript of Research Design & New Media