Location Recon 3

The end goal of this project is to display the work out in the environment, to an unsuspecting audience. So a location which has no audience would be not ideal to say the least. Therefore another factor in the location and the project has to be this possible audience. With that in mind a basic people count at set points, was a simple first steps in helping better understand the audience, and to a greater affect, what shape the project should take. These are the results of this first step.

1. People at bus shelter/opposite restaurants = 12 people/1 bus



2. People walking by on foot = 55



3. People walking by side of building on foot = 8



4. Cars entering and exiting car park = 38 cars



5. Traffic passing on main road = 422 vehicles

Location Recon 2

Below is the second possible site (B), again at the New Palace Theatre, but this time on a side window. The display area is a more uniform shape, making the final project more visible, but I feel it would be less interesting. Need to test theory. Again just off main road, so large passing audience, and opposite is a large car park for some shops used mainly in the evening (video rental, super market etc). Another good location, with a lot of practical qualities.

This is a scale drawing of the projection area showing all measurements and represented in a 20:1 scale when on A4 size material.

Location Recon

As a group I feel we have a good, basic idea from which to build upon and experiment, using noise to represent the ‘life’ of an area, then taking that input and using it to change the exterior of the New Palace Theatre through projection of imagery that reflects that ‘life’ as we see it.

However this clearly needs exploring and developing, so to that end, the location itself seemed the most logical place which to start to explore, both in the physical space and practicality, and in observation to see what we can bring to the area.

Below is the first site (A) which is a doorway on the front of the building leading to the main road. Located near by is a bus shelter on the same side of the road, restaurants opposite, and with it being a main road there are many passing pedestrians and much traffic. This is a good location to get maximum exposure to a non-captive audience. Also the doorway is covered blocking out street light, making the projection more effective.

This is a scale drawing of the projection area showing all measurements and represented in a 20:1 scale when on A4 size material.

PDP

Self development and improvement is key in every aspect of your life, whether it be educational, personal, or for your career. The plan below is designed to make you think about the key aspects which are needed to have a clear focus, and therefore achieve your end goal. Personally I view myself as a very organised person who manages their time well, and tries to succeed in every task they take on. However, I strongly believe that what one person views as a strength, another can view as a weakness. For example, I think it is a strength to keep my surroundings tidy, as ‘tidy person, tidy mind’, but my wife views this as a weakness as she views it as obsessive. My point is, I have done many of these forms throughout my life, and also I have had to administer them as well, and my findings and beliefs are that if a person wishes to succeed in any given task which is within their realm of capability, they will, if they are not bothered, they won’t. No form like this is going to change somebody dramatically if they don’t already have the internal drive, it would, and does, take a much greater agent of change.

After all that though I have completed the form for the purpose of the exercise, focusing mainly on technical skills, which I would have already strived to gain, and lack of confidence in front of unknown groups of individuals, which I may become better at masking but will never change.

Spacial strategies

Below are three links I was sent that deal with strategies for a non-captive audience. I just wanted to include them as reference points before we start developing our own strategies and plans as a group.
http://chaohanarch.blogspot.com/
http://kimberlycwalker.tumblr.com/
http://sirigoyen.wordpress.com/

Final Website 2

Having thought that I had completely finished the website, I had to revisit it to check it for compliancy against the disability discrimination act. I thought this would only take a couple of minutes, and I already knew that I had to add some ‘alt’ tags to my images, which I had forgotten, but I was surprised once I ran the code through the compliancy software at just how many small errors there were. With these errors I was shocked that the code even ran, as I believed it had to be character perfect, and also just how long it took to solve these small problems.

After a bit of time and effort I managed to iron out all these things, and ran each page separately through both

1. http://www.contentquality.com/
2. http://validator.w3.org/

and managed to get all to pass WCAG-priority 1.
Also the css sheet passed compliancy when ran through
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

Mini-Projection Ideas

As a group we have decided to revert back to our original idea of projection onto a structure to improve the general area’s perception and emotional connection. For this task, the initial idea is to make a projection onto a small area of the old theatre as it is not only central to the location, but also has a massive amount of history attached to it. The projection is also going to reflect a constant variable to the area in some way, from an input source. A basic idea of this would be to have a small projection of silhouettes dancing in one of the theatres windows, and this would be attached to a wind speed measuring device, then the winder the area was the more distorted, through a ‘TV static’ effect, the image becomes. This is one example of visually displaying the general wind speed in the area, whilst also improving the areas aesthetic quality. The same idea could also be used to show the communities feelings towards certain issues by having a simple form on a website, which has a series of questions with both a positive and negative perspective, which is then calculated and fed through as the input, causing a change to the image to represent these feelings. At the moment these are obviously just thoughts on the problem. The idea needs to be fully explored to create a solid foundation from which to build as we neither have the money or the scope to be able to achieve this as successfully as a project like ‘D Tower’