HoiNingLai-BENV7143-2008

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Reflection on assignment 3 and concept development

(For Post-Graduate students I would like you also to submit a 200 word reflection on Assignment 3, and how your themes and concepts have developed through the course.)

Fence was about orders and patterns of intervals at the beginning. It was the relationship of chaos and orders as they were reciprocal to each other. The elements were arranged in certain order and guide the chaotic situation. It was dynamic liked music, since the intervals between patterns carried different rhythms.

In the aspect of architecture, the rhythms and patterns of the intervals controlled the movements between two spaces separated by fence. It was similar to the property of the membranes that the permeability between two spaces was controlled. Unwanted materials were filtered out and hence a nice environment was created behind the membrane. The stronger the membrane, the better the environment would be. As a result, interaction between the spaces on two sides of the membrane decreased and hence, isolation may occur.

The idea was further developed to the built environment. Due to the development of technology, communication became virtual. Permeability of the membranes decreased and people tended to be surrounded by the membrane without direct contact with the real world. They were isolated and felt lonely.

The videos tried to develop a sense of loneliness and depression with the support of the music while the rhythm of the background music helped to drive the narratives.

Sunday, October 26, 2008

150 words of Assignment 3

(It is actually the same as the previous post, but I re-posted it for easier reading. :-P)

Fence was about order and patterns of intervals. It is a force to guide chaos to become order. With the increasing demand of “order” in the chaotic society, fence became a membrane that filtered materials. A nice environment was created and people tended to stay inside. Permeability of membrane decreased and communication became virtual. As a result, interaction between people was decreasing.Modeling techniques such as smoke creation, floating bubbles were made under particle system in 3dmax create the expression of virtual communication and isolation. Besides, the rotating planes with images were used to express the sense of loneliness and lost while the explosion of objects helped to create the feeling of chaotic.Moreover, the use of sound track helped to drive the rhythm and the narrative, and hence to reinforce the sense of loneliness, anxiousness, depression and isolation as well as the encouragement to break the membrane.

Assignment 3 Story Board

Clips of the 10 ideas

01. Isolation

02. Permeability

03. Chaos

04. Fragment

05. Flows

06. Virtual

07. Container

08. Privacy

09. Membrane

10. Inflatable

Idea of the video

The video is about a forecast of the future.

"Isolation" would be the single word that I would like to choose to drive my video. People were isolated from each other as all of the communication were done by computers and virtual connections. Physical contact, communication and movement were no longer necessary. Therefore people would only wander around around the city without having any destinations to reach.

The environment was virtual. Since physical contact, communication and movement were no longer necessary, physical built environment would also become unnecessary.

A slow music was chosen as the background music in order to support the feeling of people wandering around slowly and also the feeling of loneliness.