lateral thinking task

lateral thinking activity

The first puzzle was to move 8 match sticks from the image below to make 2 squares which don't touch.

The third task was join all 9 dots in the image below without taking the pen off the paper while doing this task.

The second puzzle was to move 3 match sticks from the image below to make the image point down.

the answers were these.

my research and design logo

I was using google.co.uk to do my research for a Buddha I got some idea how I could add my own style into my drawing, I need to create a mind map for other logo's other positions for the Buddha to be sat in.
I was researching the different types of concepts of the Buddha sitting down and standing up and I have chosen to make him stand up. The idea of the Buddha standing up holding the dollar sign is ironic Buddha never cared  for wealth or greed but just meditating and health so its eye catching to see something different about the Buddha, i think it was a good idea to make the dollar sign with him holding it in his hand.

reference: http://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/deal-buddha-needs-chubby-logo-67539/brief

research summary of the presentations

Quiality of humour and laughter, memorable moments, brightly coloured objects that stick out, memorable track also played with the adverts short and convinant to a human time spand of the mind.When doing these presentations there were alot of point made out in discuss with the class, about the television adverts and Gorilla adverts and magazines aswell, In all a very well done to every one in the presentation who came up with the funkiest ones
Classic high quality photography

Contrasting use of colour and highlights

Clean lines in graphic design

Contemporary and topical themes

Use of known music tracks

Catchy jingles

Repetitive phrases e.g. “Simples”

Shock value e.g. “cactus” dummy and “The Sopranos”

Use of a continuing theme – e.g. the Peter Kay beer ads

Use of known strong corporate branding and identity

“Whacky” ideas – “Big Ad” (beer) and Cadbury’s Chocolate ads

Surreal imagery (Evian Water) (Gorilla playing drums)

Clever, skillful craftsmanship

Lifestyle adverts

Use of celebrities

Use of humour

Strong basis of factual information – e.g. the iPod ads. blackberry ads, car ads, gaming ads,

mind maps from this morning

This morning we were creating mind maps to get some inspirational
ideas to our game theme for

 the X Box 360. These are a few ideas the whole class have thought of during
 this morning session. 

I enjoyed doing this task, my team got alot of ideas down and there were
 two main ones. 

We liked extreme caravanner and baby teken.

method of capture

I am planning on taking rub markings of different types of suffuses of walls floors doors stairs some one shoe and using a A3 scanner to scan in my work then add them my blog and adapt why I have chosen this as my main capture and how i will come around doing this technique to improve my method of capture

Materials needs: pencil, crayons, pastels, berol colouring pen,

Paper A4 sheets for each marking i make with the different style of pencil or pen

catch phrase - group work

Been given a group to create a flash animation or a still image in photo shop, We are making our in flash  we are making a grandfather clock and a needle, in my team the communication is better than last time,

Billy is working on the flash animation for what we are creating James gave an idea and we all adapted to it.

The meaning for our catch phrase is work now saves time later,

the grandfather clock is time the CD is saving the time and needle as the hand of the clock

Saying: "A stitch in time saves 9"

work now saves time.....

This exercise was a vision task to see what ideas we could create with a saying

Egg drop

The task was to design a protection for an egg to drop some suiten height we only had masking tape and straws, My team design was wrapping straws and masking tape around the egg and then we added the inner ring of cardboard of the masking tape around the layers of masking tape. After trying it every one's egg bounced and sounded broken then after we had finished the experiment we unwrapped them and every one's was broken,

This is my team egg before we put this dropping to the test, and after we had finished discussing this theory, that we came up with, we done one sketch of what we were going to do and mainly discuss it as a group effort to try and get this idea to work. I reckon it did until the third or fourth time then it was broken.

I would modify in my design I would of change the entire design to protect the egg instead of careless effort which sort of worked

The group of people I worked with was brilliant they had a lot of ideas no disagreements at all, It was a better group than what I had last time.

Xbox presentation and tasks

our Xbox game

 

 These are the animals we have used and manipulated in to our xbox 360 case using via Photoshop and using the appropriate age for our game.   

Xbox Game Farm Racers

Scenes:

The farm yard will be for level one. The barn yard will be for level two with a few objects flying in to your animal that are racing around. The farm yard again but with flying objects going to try and daze your animal and lifeless objects on the floor, dodge the holes in the floor.  Woods will be for the last few levels with more flying objects and more floor obstacles,

Animals:

Cat, Dog and Duck are level one,

Chicken, goose and Turkey are level two,

Donkey, Sheep and Pig are level three,

Goat, Ram and Cow are level four,

Horse, Bull, Llama is level five.

Gain a Barn Owl

Strengths:  getting extra energy on every race you compete in.  Gain new experience hear feedback from the commentators racing your animals and gain new animals to train and look after them med them back to health

Weaknesses:

Getting hit by any of the objects around the farm and barn. Will decrease your energy via being daze for no longer than five seconds,

Food and boost:

Hay, straw, fruit e.g.  Apples, pears,   Vegetables e.g. carrots, tomatoes, cabbage, lettuce, broccoli 

This game is single and multi player, It's very basic and simple for young ages to understand the game and the game play they will mainly be attracted to the colours and the animals and funny noises on the game

I have wrote this brief to let you know more information about our game we are designing and briefing up I think its a good idea for younger gamers to understand how to use the controller and hand and eye accordinartion skills, learning the animals and noise's they own. I think it's a good idea to start of learning development.

Mind mapping group discussion

Age groups to pick

Got into groups

Thought showered in smaller groups

Explain the progress to fine the idea of the game

Research age

Research game

Research concept

Cummication in-between of smaller groups

Independent working

Discussions between groups.

The research for this task wasn't easy as we had to do 5-10 year old so my group improvised on building up an idea by ourself, What makes a X box game memorable is the graphics, special effects the quest that need to be done then handed back in to the quest giver fighting huge subnormal size creatures that we would never see in real life the impact stays in our minds so get these crazy ideas for our own games or game designs 

Evaluation 

For our first part of ideas and concepts Unit we where the given the task to create a new Xbox game idea and design characters for it to give a presentation. This covered many criteria in our brief therefore was quite an important mini project for us. 

at first the group was all right but as we got in to this important mini project we had no communication between us and it wasn't going to well, we had a great idea for our mini project for this task but nothing was getting done between us then Billy and James decided to make me team leader which I did not want to be because I get very nervous bossing people around for that matter. If I could restart this task again I would change the way we all were to each other something I learned in a team there is a leader and a co-leader to provide information about what the idea is about and get a picture to sell to the company buying it.

 we were not the strongest of groups doing our presentation I did most of the talking about the plan and idea of our game and it didn't go very well at all this idea fell through, the idea was to race animals and level them up and upgrade to better animals the basic idea was out there and the rest of it went very badly 

word association task

This task was very fun to do and research for these words. and these are my ideas that I did in Photo shop i really enjoyed doing these using the tools that I know how to use in the programme. This idea was to mix and match words up and create our own character which was really fun, I enjoy making my two characters 

 

 This is my production in action when doing my word associations  putting words together to creating these characters 

Methods of capture

Hand drawings

I will be using my own creative style to recreate the characters of Disney

A3 scanner

Using the A3 scanner to scan them in to my computer save them to local D drive

Audio and sound

I will be downloading the sounds of the characters and magical noise’s to my website design when your click on another link on the website

Photoshop

Photoshop will be used to help me edit the characters and change their colours of outfits and shall be bitmap drawings

Characters

I will be using Minnie, Mickey, Goofy, Donald, Pluto and Daisy

Materials used

I will be using A4 paper white, HB pencil for the outlines of the characters, B4 or B3 for the shading.

I will also be using flash to make buttons for my website to go to different pages of my site, 

my name in meaning

This is my name in meaning of a man defender so i got a wolf and its also Russian so I thought of Russian vodka i just use the basic tools copy the image of the vodka on to the wolf image then magic tool to get rid of the background of the vodka bottle is by the wolf,

i went on google.com and research my name in the search bar and then read up on what it meant man defender so i researched man's best friend dog/ wolf  and because it is a Russian name I thought of the best thing Russia is best known for which is Vodka

then added it all in to photo shop made some peak changes add some big bold text, font and colour and it worked for me.

my research and design logo

I was using google.co.uk to do my research for a Buddha I got some idea how I could add my own style into my drawing, I need to create a mind map for other logo's other positions for the Buddha to be sat in.
I was researching the different types of concepts of the Buddha sitting down and standing up and I have chosen to make him stand up. The idea of the Buddha standing up holding the dollar sign is ironic Buddha never cared  for wealth or greed but just meditating and health so its eye catching to see something different about the Buddha, i think it was a good idea to make the dollar sign with him 

Guerrilla advertizing research

It's something you would see in every building of every day even if you don't see it you automaticly know what to do, walk don't panic, don't run.

something you know you want but the design of this advert for pepsi is something you wouldn't expect to see some ones hand comming out of a drain. for a tastey drink. Good use of colour and presentation.

Something you would expect but in the conpect of being very well done the darken colours and how the wording is correct i like the way they have put the face over the car exsource with smoke blowing out of it, very well thourght of.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DIuGo14R6I this advert made me laugh years ago when i saw it, it reminded me of me when i was younger how much hassel i gave to my parents growing up really good idea if you dont want kids wear a condom http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uswvZul1Z2s this advert is amazing it's promoting the Xbox 360 the message its sending is life is too short to be serious play more pretty much, This next advert is Budweiser an alcoholic drink, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w04xmH2SOLA&feature=related this is sporty vs ninja   

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reasearch on web banners

Web banners are there to be informative or to be annoying it entirely depends on what is being advertised at the time 

http://www.lg.com/uk/mobile-phones/index.jsp I think its always a good idea to always have animation in a web site/web banner because it enspires people to come look at your website, i love the contrast, use of colours, and the use of animation in this website, keeps to the traditional website design clicking to the left the concept of this web banner was a still image not a moving one 

http://wow.stratics.com/content/events/WWI08/index.php My favourite web banner so far is the world of warcraft one because of the contrast the traditional left hand clicking to go other places on the website, The way it's been moded into one. It has trailer for upcoming patches for the game showing you information how to play it. 

The layout of Game website is basic but easy to access it's got great contrast and colours same as the other two websites i have been researching traditional clicking on the left main theme of what's best seller and web banner on the top scroller got trailer for the newest games out at the time 

http://www.game.co.uk/