DSDN101 Project 3 - The Clip

This is my final cut for DSDN101 Project 3 - The Clip. I hope you like it :)

The Clip - Storyboard

This is my storyboard for DSDN101 Project 3 "The Clip". I decided against adding annotations to the frames as I felt the image was powerful enough to speak for itself.

Design Standpoint

Network, B. A. (Producer). (2009). E-Waste Dumping in Ghana. Retrieved from http://www.electronicstakeback.com/global-e-waste-dumping/

For my subject of Industrial Design, I decided to focus on the ethics and responsibilities an Industrial Designer has in relation to the environmental impact of the products they design.

As the focus of Industrial Design is effectively geared toward mass production, attention must be paid to what happens to the product once it has lived out it's useful lifespan - "If one’s really honest with oneself, most of what you design ends up in a landfill somewhere." (Tim Brown, 2009)

The question is then, how can we reduce the waste that mass produced products cause? It is a problem that both the consumer and designer often bury and forget - for example in Australia, a country of culture similar to New Zealand, the E-Waste for computers alone is projected to be 11.1 million per annum in comparison to the 500,000 recycled per annum, with similar trends on all other electronic equipment. (Waste, 2009-10-13) These trends are also accelerating at an rate in the current years. (Callie W. Babbitt*†, 2009)  There are many elements that affect a products longevity; aesthetics, time between technological improvements, durability, and consumer trends to name a few. 

Many of these aspects have been addressed by both designer and consumer, for which we have recycling programs, technological improvements into biodegradability, and many campaigns to "enjoy what you have" , but all run on the assumption that what is designed will inevitably be thrown away. The standpoint I choose to take is that this assumption need not be true. The question I ask is, how can we design products so that we can continue designing them? For example, could we design a cellphone that could be upgraded instead of thrown away and replaced by a newer model? 

Could we redesign design itself? (McDonald)

A new way of thinking.

(Network, 2009)

Callie W. Babbitt*†, R. K., Eric Williams‡§ and Gregory A. Babbitt. (2009). Evolution of Product Lifespan and Implications for Environmental Assessment and Management: A Case Study of Personal Computers in Higher Education, from http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es803568p

McDonald, W. Think Exist, from http://thinkexist.com/quotes/william_mcdonald/

Network, B. A. (Producer). (2009). E-Waste Dumping in Ghana. Retrieved from http://www.electronicstakeback.com/global-e-waste-dumping/

Tim Brown, C. P. I. (Writer) & G. Hustwit (Director). (2009). Objectified.

Waste, E. (2009-10-13). Australia's E-Waste Statistics  Retrieved 2012-6-6, from http://www.ewaste.com.au/ewaste-articles/australia-ewaste-statistics/

Stop Motion Inspiration

I absolutely adore this clip, such a solemn little tale that really catches your heart. I would really like to find out how to do this style of animation that gives depth to the scenes and uses different kinds of stop motion that just seem to mesh together.

Stop Motion Inspiration

I was having a little trouble thinking of how to re-do my storyboard in a style that was not constricted by boxes which is when I recalled this video for Madvillain's track "All Caps". Check it out! Quite literally breaks the boundaries of the traditional storyboard :)

Locovisual - St. James Theatre

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St James Theatre, designed by Henry White in 1912  was at the time the largest theatre for vaudeville and pictures in Australasia. (Lee, 2007)

The theatre was designed for live performances and silent movies, but over the years has been modified and adapted to house performances ranging from live Shakespearean performances, to concerts and movies, and is now the home of The Royal New Zealand Ballet. ("The St. James Theatre ")

St James Theatre is designed in a Baroque Revival style; from the outside this can be identified by a facade adorned with classically inspired columns with curvilinear organic capitals, a combination of linear and domed archways, a pastel stucco finish, and plaster statues that pay homage to the Statue of Apollo. The interior is highly ornamental, decorated with curvaceous plastering, dancing cupids, harps and horns all with gold-leaf gilding. (Blunt, 1978)

Retrieved from http://www.johnherber.co.nz/Photo%20Gallery.htm

Historically, Baroque theatres were designed with the greatest technology available such that stages could be transformed mid-performance to provide new settings in seconds whilst hiding the unsightly elements key to the stage's function. This gave rise to a new dynamic available for playwrights to weave into their work, and effectively created a new theatrical genre providing viewers with a multimedia experience. (Norberg-Schulz, 1972) Theatres intending to screen such performances would generally be modeled in Baroque fashion, and as such reflects the styles of performance on offer such as at the St. James Theatre . St. James Theatre also intended to use the greatest technology available and was the first theatre in the world to be built from steel and the finest English concrete reinforced with top quality cow hair. (Cochran, 1993)

St. James Theatre has survived financial turmoil and threat of demolition, (McGill, 1998) and has been once again been recognised as an "outstanding cultural and historically significant" theatre and focus for performing arts in New Zealand. ("The St. James Theatre ")

Blunt, A. (1978). Baroque & Rococo architecture & decoration. London: Elek.

Cochran, C. (1993). St James Theatre, Courtenay Place, Wellington : cultural heritage assessment / report prepared by Chris Cochran in association with Ross Thorne for the New Zealand Historic Places Trust/Pouhere Taonga. Wellington, N.Z.: New Zealand Historic Places Trust/Pouhere Taonga.

Lee, A. Y. J. (2007). Theatre of three horizons : re-design of ballet building, St James Theatre, Wellington. Wellington, N.Z.

McGill, D. (1998). Full circle : the history of the St James Theatre. Wellington, NZ: Phantom House.

Norberg-Schulz, C. (1972). Baroque Architecture. Ney York: H. N. Abrams.

. The St. James Theatre Retrieved March 4, 2008, from http://www.stjames.co.nz/