As part of the first session we had to start thinking about ‘play’ objects and create a range of materials/assets related to these objects that we could use in the upcoming software workshops.
This is a list of the project briefs we could choose from. We can either pick one off the list of propose a new one to our tutors. My initial thoughts on the briefs are that I’m most drawn to options 1, 4 and 6. These are the animated film project, AR poster and redesigning a pack of cards. But I’m also open to coming up with my own idea. Redesigning a deck of cards is within my comfort come of design and illustration so it might me I’ve to push myself to try something I’ve not explored before such as animation or immersive arts.
Here is a mind map of some of my initial thoughts and ideas for the ‘play’ project.
This is an idea I had for the project. I would need to propose this idea to my tutors as it’s not one of the suggested briefs although it does draw inspiration from the animated film project. The idea is to create a stop motion animated film using chess pieces. There are more details on the idea below:
Games is the topic I want to explore within this ‘play project’. The types of games I wanted to work with is either board games or card games. The next step was to create a range of material to use upcoming workshops. I will be adding to this when I think of more ideas and feel that I need more visual media to work with.
Chess:
I made and complied lots of visual media related to chess. I chose chess as it’s a historical and widely popular game that most people at least recognise. It’s a game that I really enjoyed as a child and is played by many across a wide range of ages and I can see lots of room to explore the game in a creative and playful way.
Stop motion:
Photographs:
Photographs (from Flickr):
Scanning:
Edits of scans:
Printing (Lino):
Illustrations:
Illustrations (from Flickr):
Cards: the other topic that I created a bank of visual media for is cards. Cards is an iconic symbol of play for both adults and children’s so fits perfectly into the modules brief. Creating a deck of cards is one of the set briefs that interests me and just generally it’s a topic I’m interested it and would like to creatively explore.
Scans:
Experimental scans:
Printing (Lino):
Images from Flickr:
Audios:
In addition to create lots of visual media to use, I recorded a series of sounds related to the images. These included shuffling cards, moving chess pieces on the board and dropping rings. I can use these sounds to overlay videos and animations to provide another dimension to my work.
Samuel Green Illustration 