Monday meeting and progressions for presentation

For our Monday night meeting we ran it from 5-8pm so that each of us was there for a decent amount of time - I was there from 5-7pm, others were there from 6-8pm etc.

We had the lighting studio booked as light was one of the things we wanted to play with and see if there was something fun we could do with it. However these tests weren't really working so I tried our idea of having the history narrative wrap around the pole:

This wasn't hugely affective and neither were our light experiments so we needed to devise a new strategy.

We decided that the space at the waterfront was our best space to use because of its high level of foot traffic, it's power capabilities on the lamp posts and it's proximity to the water.

From here we considered generating a projection on the ground with the accompaniment of sound as a way to educate people on tsunamis. We really liked the idea of the zones so in keeping with this thought that it could be our ground image, and then we could project the water over them. We also needed a way to trigger this projection and thought the poles could become touch sensitive. A way I developed to do this was simply by using the word touch but I had noticed that the zones made a kind of "C" shape so implementing that in the letter space:

And we also thought that we needed to bring type in at the end of the "wave" as a message reinforcement, so I came up with this:

The team decided to go for something a bit more colloquial though, and wanted to create this kind of branding of "I won't be here when it hits" to inform people that they are not safe in a tsunami in that area.

Nicole came up with an animation whilst I generated the type for this idea, and Micky, Fran, and Hamish made some prototypes of lamp posts. What they had done was generate a stencil with the wave logo from the suburban projects and their quote and painted it onto a cardboard pole to show at the presentation.

The idea developed into the lamp posts being coloured as per the zone they were in, with the stencil on them, and then the projection installation would only occur at a few of the ones along the waterfront as these were the key zone.

This week it didn't really feel like we worked very strongly as a team - it felt a bit like 2 v 3 on ideas and executions which was a bit disappointing however we did all believe that what we'd developed was an improvement on the week before.

We used google slides to prepare our presentation for Wednesday.