Joe's Big Step
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This was a presentation I did for a quick class project a year and a half ago. I was working on narrative presentation formats - comics and movies mostly - anything linear that told a story. So while all my class mates got up with the regular image board with a few section cuts, a plan view and a couple of rendered images, I presented my project as a graphic sequence (comic book, storyboard, or graphic novel style). It was fairly well recieved by the jury, until my teacher started to tear it apart - the jerk.
I see a zillion flaws in it now, but that is how school is, too many classes to take and not enough time to devote to all projects. You'll see I loosely fulfilled the plan view, section view and persepective view requirements in the sequence of the storyboard. I think the main reason it fails is because I still have to explain the design outside the storyboard. It does not convey all the info needed. A few more boards, some better modeling, more detailed storyline could have addressed those problems I think.
But all that aside, I still liked the project. my response and approach. The idea is that there is this large resevoir in the middle of these homes. San Francisco has it hidden with a massive wall, so as to not bother the residents. (that is all real existing condition). I proposed a bridge from the neighboring park hillside that takes the resident into the resevoir space and lets the resident view a large meter full of info about the resevoir - where water is being imported from, how much has been used that year, how full the resevoir is, how much is flowing out of it currently, etc. So instead of hiding it from the residents, I prposed a way for the residents to insert themselves into the resevoirs space and think about the water they are drinking, and where it comes from, and what it takes to get it there.
Here's the storyboard.
Chris
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Well, Chris:
It was an interesting approach to the project.
No reason why this technique could not be used in a presentation in the right circumstances, with a few more frames dedicated to flesh out the ideas.
Very creative.
I took a Landscape course one time that dealt with methods of presentation, which was more geared toward advertising art, since we were required among other things, to promote common products, such as steak sauce, beer, and so forth. We took these concepts forward with several small landscape sketch projects. Very enjoyable course.
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