Wednesday 30 March 2011

Guerrilla Advertising

we where tasked to create and gurrilla advertising campaign over the last few weeks to promote the college this taks was help us think outside usual comfined ideas. i however was not able to think of any ideas that sparked therefore i took the first idea that came to my head. i feel that this project will be a learning oppunitity because i have realised a weakness in my self that otherwise might have gone un noticed until later in my career. when i did come up with an idea there where two. One to create a range of cardboard cut outs of paint brushes and place them over pole shaped objects. The second was to get flags which sound very boring and un orginal and place them in places that u would usaully expect. such as being draped over the side of the mall as you drive in from north hill. This i thought wouldnt be a strong idea however in the diccusion task create alot of involvement and helped carry them disscussion on. Our presentations in groups worked extremely well and we all had well thought of ideas and gathered many helpful critisism.

I feel the making of a guerrilla advertisment campaign is seriously under thought of as a difficult task because i went in thinking it would be so easy and it turned out to be one of the most difficult projects of the course so far.

Monday 14 February 2011

Lateral Thinking 2

the lateral thinking task was to help us branch out with ideas and think in different ways than other people and get a orignal twist of ideas or situation that others wouldnt of thought of. this was very difficult to get your head round at first but then afterward we started to have crazy ways of solving the task.
Match stick pryimid out 10 sticks and then move 3 sticks to reverse the pryimid.
Results

Lateral Thinking

we where given 24 match sticks and were told to remove 8 to create 2 squares that didnt touche
this is how it is done.

Image and Word association

The Task was to create a image aid to do in the style Catch Phase.
to do this we where given a Proverb.
"A Stitch in time Saves 9"
This means "work now saves time later"

We decided to protray using a grandfather clock and a CD as the pendulum using a needle as the hands of a clock.

Name Representation

today we where given the task of representing our names using images with text association. my name is Connor Alexander Stephens therefore i researched meanings of my names however only picked Connor and Alexander to represent.
The name Connor means Strong Willed, Wise, Hound Lover. which is suprising because i really like dogs and have been told i have a strong will. the wise aspect i am not so sure about yet.
Alexander means Warrior or Mans Defender this is also very surprising because i fight in a re-enactment therefore am a warrior in my group. and i also go out of my way to defend my friends through out my life.

i Created wings to give the sense of strong willed and wise being such as angels. then placed a shield in the middle to show my defending qualities. I was gonna have swords crossed through the image and then decided to create my name using swords. i feel this task worked well and that i have actually learnt alot from the meanings of my name

Monday 7 February 2011

Great EGG Drop

Today we where given the task to drop an egg of a first story second and third and see if we can make the egg survive.  we where given 6 drinking straw and a roll of masking tape. this task was diffcult because you get a very blande idea of rules therefore you get stuck into a very basic way of thinking.
Our group decided to make a parachute using the straws and suspend the egg using tape underneath the chute.
Our chute worked a little it slowed our egg down to safety from the first and second story however when the third hit the railing due to wind and that was our eggs ultimate down fall.

to get our basic idea we brainstormed ways to create drag and therefore slow the egg down.  then sketched our parachute ideas and used our materails to mock out what we where going to make it like and the best ways to do it.
Our group got on with the task at hand very well and had many ideas to add to our disscussions


Word Association

Our Task was to use word Association to get ideas generating in our heads and make us more capable to come up with ideas.
Deformed Demon BIO
Tormented in the underworld for being useless this demons crippled wing has prevented him from taking his right full place as head guardian.
His torrent of anger, flame and hatred will raise his powers beyond belief he glides around the underworld looking for demons more pathetic than himself so that he can one day grow his deformed his wing into strength
Being a weak demon he has scared of other but never willing to show it. Confused individual therefore creating a complex inner being his previous life means he still feels mortal emotions even though he doesn’t have a solid form to show them.
His weaknesses would be everything Good and Light. He cannot feel happiness else his dark hatred will fade and he could possibly be taken to heaven for being too pure.

Demonic Diamond BIO
This demonic diamond is pure evil in a childish way he flies around all day playing pranks and messing with things generally creating chaos without violence.  His burning red eyes seen from the darkness as he watching the havoc he has made. Very sneaky and glides over the floor silently
His Weakness would be cold water due the fact that he is a flaming hot diamond and therefore the temperature change would cause him to shatter ending his.