My first pre-production assignment.

So, in order to get a grasp on the concept of what type of work it is I will be doing in the future, the class had been assigned a preproduction task which corresponded to what pieces of research we were INDIVIDUALLY successful in digging out from the library...after running round what seemed like a maze of texts...I found quite a bounty of resources relating to some studies of how digital media's historical background  has moulded the way we learn I will combine that to the points of 1440 with the invention of the printing press by Johannes Guttenberg that we had briefly reviewed earlier in the session.
That was the easy part, now its time to knuckle down and let my imagination roll out ideas.....

An observational drawing of my hand scribbling away ideas for the powerpoint presentation script it was really from the elements in the sketch that the background applied to all three slides is scrunched up paper; a texture I found on the background design layout section of powerpoint.

well... a platform's a step in the right direction! Its the title of this extraordinarily interesting book I came across last night, "Multimedia and Literacy Development" I am keen to base my ideas around how with the evolving digital media industry, human's cognitions and vocabulary have improved due to the large variety of learning tools eg childrens school programmes,interactive games and websites the digital industry has created....that the printing press evoked the democratisation of literacy amongst the evolving class system.

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--> The organic research i dug out form the library ..title at the top will be my main resource but I will use the Text "Thinking Visually" by Mark Wigan for some snippets of historical input also.

I photographed the sections of research that supported my ideas around the positive relationship that connect our growing literacy skills with technology

This shows a recording of children and how much of the time is spent surrounded by media usage eg television, reading.

The start of my script.... my points are going

to summarise how from 12000BC to 2011 technology has developed our literary skills

drawing from this concept of old colours and a " sepia" palette this will be the colours of the slides in the powerpoint to maintain an element of history.

Thinking of the introduction slide.......

From the word "evolution," my drawings will revolve around the theme "metamorphosis"....Fingers crossed, hopefully this will look like vision i have in my head...but who knows!

The first official slide for the powerpoint its illustrating the concept of mans physical but intellectual evolution so that eventually he is in the modern day era using electrical technology. 

  

The first segment of the animatic (my prototype). The colour scheme I want would be a pale shade of sepia to illustrate the idea of the past for the first slide but to embody more vibrant colours in the last slide to identify the here and now! this colour connects well to the shades of pigment found on the cave paintings from 12000BC

My second idea that shows from top left to bottom right cave man hand prints that have spear ends as fingertips to echo the  hunting tools used in the scenes they painted onto the cave walls, the next slide i an open book amongst rocks to show  slow development of more intellectually challenging media standing out from the rock scene. The bottom right slide now shows a character using reading typing and thereore graduating and becoming successful due to the technology they were able to educate themselves with......

I am now deliberating whether to use a comic strip as my final prototype but on the other hand I want to challenge my technical ability so I will stick to the concept of an animatic in order to propel the idea of evolution/change in my ideas....the third idea is really taking pieces of the previously drawn images and making more of a combination just to see how it will look in different sizes and positions ..

 This idea is illustrating the development of narrative from the basic writing tools originally used as can be seen in the first image to the creation of the printed word and therefore enhanced by the book image in the second picture and finally the massive expansion of the printed text and our successful cliterature and cognitive skills symbolized by the graduation caps.

THE PROTOTYPE ANIMATIC

......A bit more info on how I came to achieving that particular layout in my final slide..like the end of a film, these additions are the "End Credits" 

It was my original plan to go with a theme of it being a blessing that children especially "the future generation" as quoted by the Multimedia and literacy text were being equipped with the technical resources to succeed in life. The praying hands and the content child sat infront of a book case provided a satisfactory demonstration.

Gutenberg introduced translations of the Bible in book production which caused an expansion in the production of texts in Europe

The Bible’s narrative was laid out in two columns. And are designed to be read left to right. The printed text was black. The very first pages Gutenberg printed had only 40 lines per column. Gutenberg discovered paper could accommodate 42 lines therefore pages were reset and printed again in this new form.

 

Despite being a very linear sketch, it draws your attention up to where a head should be, but I didnt include it because without the development of intelligence...there isnt a point to having a brain although this is an odd idea it does slot in well with my idea of development and evolution. and the image above of the variety of basic line drawings of cavemen supports my ideas of basic line drawings in the pre production stage I myself have found successful.

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