Week 1-2 TECHNICAL PRODUCTION JOURNAL

Scifi Product/Robot/Mecha Concept Design and Idea Evolution

FOREWORD

it has been four weeks  have passed since the production began but I will post everything as much as I can remember on the process since the beginning. I might divide each process into different posts cause I also have to post our Contextual reflections and Technical Diary. Enjoy! 

WEEK 1

After almost four weeks of brainstorming and idea discussions. I've produced different concepts of our idea evolution and the features that I have sort of visualized throughout the days.

We are tasked to create a 30 second advertisement of a fictional product and it should showcase our basic applications of what we've learned throughout the course. We are kind of excited after the briefing cause this is actually a great thing to work on cause this is something that you want to do. So I grabbed down some notes and let's take a look on how I started this.

First and foremost before I do anything else, I narrowed down the objective, the assets and I'm so unsure of what to do. There's the idea of fantasy, creatures and supernatural products in a supernatural era. I noticed that we are building up this big chunk of iceberg here. Ideas came piling up and bombarding us and the best thing to do is to just simply imbibe, write them down and let them flow. After many nos and yeses, not this and not that, that's weird and that's lame; We all agreed to have a 'sci fi product'

The production begins now.

I made a reference sheet for us so that we can sort of visualize what will this product be in a process of deduction, addition and combination.

I included this because we might fancy some ideas from the ancients based on their weaponries, styles and etc.

After I pinned up these references for us to take a look, I'm kind of surprised myself cause this is really massive! There's too much thing to see and I have to adapt to that kind of thinking that these are images for you to be inspired of, you don't have to take everything as a consideration but let them help you. Let these visuals serve their purpose of squeezing your brain and creativity to deal with this project.

WEEK 2

Another Week has passed and we were told that we have to really be strong on our story, on what the pitch will be. I don't if I heard it correctly but this is that something that's kind of the turning point on what makes your commercial a something not a nothing. They want it memorable, they want it as if it's real like being sold, how will it attract the customer? What is so special about it and the product? We found ourselves in the desert again, wandering aimlessly on our ideas. What's going to happen? we kept on asking each other, what now? We spent almost all of the class time looking at different advertisements, reflecting on how some are done cleverly, some very efficient and some are simply straightforward. I noticed that a commercial is only as good as how it is presented, how the idea behind it makes the product appealing to their target audiences. There will be a presentation of our ideas soon with our lecturer but in the meantime we have to get our products narrowed down so we can easily pick on out and it'll be less confusing.

The 2nd week has passed and I came up with another set of concepts that might help us.

I presented these products to my group-mates and they also have their own suggestions. We spent a day talking about our ideas and how they are technically possible, I think we are slowly getting there but still we have to narrow all of this down to a specific strong product. Moreover, hearing ideas from other groups are really inspiring because you can see different possibilities and ideologies that just sprouted up out of nowhere and we learn to reference and constructively compare ours to them. Overall, it's a very team based environment where everybody is working together to better polish each suggestions.