Idea Generation on Skype

Today everyone was tasked with trying to think of something interesting and new for the theme of the show to bring forward in our Skype meeting. The previous idea that we had all been thinking about was "Wireframe" for this we planned to use wires to create frames, but most of the group was not sold on this idea especially as the plan went on and I collected some old wires from broken toys. 

Ash had come up with an army based idea and drew us a funny sketch to try and help us visualise what he had in mind, although his idea did sound interesting and fun to make, with the limitations on time we didn't feel we would have time to make it look professional and finished.  

While I was brainstorming in the day I tried to focus on words that I felt represented the course such as digital, inspiration, combination, creation and so on. While looking at all of these words and more, I came across the word "Commix", this is simply a rare word for mix. What I really liked about this was that I felt it represented the mixture of the two classes and the combination of different skills coming together for the end of year show. I then started to look up art work that was liked to the theme mixture and came up with some interesting results. 

When I saw these images I wanted to create something that was quite eye catching but had the same combination of pictures that didnt quite belong together. After some playing in Photoshop I ended up with this image, the font I decided to pick was "Tall films" and I picked to have the images in black and white to make them stand out more against the colourful background, and therefore having the text in grey to match.

In our Skype meeting I produced this poster to the group and explained what Commix meant and why I thought it was relevant. After some discussion and decisions about how this could relate to a video, the team decided to pick this idea and then we started to set job roles to make sure the work would be done in time.

Ash and I picked to be on assets and poster creation, selecting images for the tops and bottoms, cutting them and sizing them in individual layers to send over for the video. We also allocated ourselves the task of picking the colour schemes for each poster and deciding which tops and bottoms best suit for the posters.

Thomas and Rob were then put on the making of the video, Thomas was tasked with creating the video from all the assets that Ash and I sent over and animating it to look good, then sending it to Rob who was in charge of sound and text with the power to do any last touch ups to the final product.