Mini Masterpieces

On the same day that we made the Zoetrope films we also had a go at making some very short films just using the classroom. Again they were to tell a story but this time it was all going to be live, we had to think about props and costumes and what shots there were going to be in the film. This was to get us thinking about how we can tell a story and to get us used to using the Flip cameras to film each other.

At the end of the day we used the NetBook computers to transfer the film from the camera and onto the school's network. We had a bit of trouble with this because of the space available and the number of film we had made.

Zoetropes

Zoetropes are quite an old way to make images appear to be moving or animated, they were first made in the form that we recognise in the 19th century, however the idea goes back to ancient china.

we wanted our Zoetropes to tell a story, it was a story of going to get some food, and the animations would relate to the three different ages.

Andy and Dave had made some examples and a zoetrope made from lego, two old CDs, a CD stack box and some card.

Here is a drawing of the zoetrope

Web Albums

During this project we will be uploading photographs and video onto Google Picasa web albums, this will allow anyone to look at the images download them, print them, or use them however they want...

http://picasaweb.google.com/airspacegallery/BreakingPointPhotostream?feat=directlink

This is the link to the web album, the images on here are much bigger than we can put on the blog so they are therefore much higher quality.

Also on the blog is a 'Photostream' which shows random selections of images from this album, you can also get to the album by clicking on these images.

The picasa web albums logo is the property of google, and is used here as illustration only.

Making a blog title

Monday 30th November

This was our third session, and last before Christmas. Today we had a look at this blog again, we had a look at the page layout, and thought about what could be added, we also had a look at the other pages that have been added so far.

One of the main items that we looked at was the blog title, everyone thought that it was a bit boring just having text, so today we made some funky graphics which you can now see above.

Blogging

A key part of this project is this blog. It is going to be our place for sharing what we are doing during the project with the wider world. As the project progresses we will be adding all sorts of things to this website, such as images, text written by people involved, videos documenting the work, and some artwork itself. This will hopefully give people lots of ideas about how technology of all sorts can be used in a creative way to produce an exciting and vibrant environment. In the meantime here is a bit of information about blogging.

Boats

Thursday 26th November

Today we had a go at making a simple mode of transport, in this session we were exploring means of communication. The boat as a mode of transport is itself a means of communication, but during the task we asked for different methods of communication to be explored, in the form of a manual to enable another group to be able to reconstruct the boat design.
The session began with a quick introduction to types of boats and what materials could be used to manufacture them.

Towers and Bridges

Monday 23rd November

This was the first day of work at the school, after a brief presentation from AirSpace Gallery artists and PiCL. We all got down to doing some quick experiments.

First each class was divided into three groups. These groups were given names based on points of history, these were; Primitive, Egyptian, and Modern.
The task that each group had to complete was to build a basic structure using materials relevant to their particular point in history.