We will spend the next week completing our empathy videos. Please use your class time wisely to plan, shoot and edit your work. Videos will be due next Wednesday, February 20th. Continue to update your blogs and post comments. We will use the online conversations to decide our next couple of projects including the mockumentary and genre spoof. Finally here is the Go around twice if you are happy video again.
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Thanks to Mr. Kucharski for sharing the link to artist Yang Liu’s exhibit in Germany. The exhibit was designed to show the differences between German and Chinese cultures. Check out the design and consider whether these pieces encourage or demonstrate empathy. Click on the image to view the Yang Liu’s site and more of her work.
Great work on the logos everyone, we are in the process of installing Adobe Illustrator in the lab so we will be animating and inserting them into our films. Special thanks to our guest speaker for coming in and critiquing our logos. Please continue to post your reflections of the class on your blog. Also, feel free to post videos or images that you come across that demonstrate good design or film techniques but be sure to include an explanation of why you posted it.
Let’s continue the discussion about elements of good design as we prepare for our next project. We are going to be designing signs that can elicit a response from the reader. We will film the creative process and then the reaction that the sign has on the reader. The video above provides a neat example of people reacting to the signs. Are the signs effective and why do you think they were designed the way that they were?
Here are a couple of signs that encourage empathy. One is text based while the other is very visual. What do you think when you see these signs? What point are they trying to get across? Are they effective?
Source: http://www.canadiandesignresource.ca/officialgallery/?p=1562
Source: http://www.canadiandesignresource.ca/officialgallery/?p=1540
To get a better idea about signs that encourage or demonstrated empathy, have a look at this presentation. What is the difference between signs that encourage empathy and those that demonstrate it?
Please post your individual reflection on the images and videos here before Wednesday’s class. Start your comment by explaining what empathy is and answer some of the questions within your reflection.
