20100510

Green Street / Contextual Design

Continuous filming still on-going. with the most current filmings based on the eco-friendly features of the house.

first draft of the first video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpUs-eovHbw
still awaiting on 2 more interviewees to be filmed and weaved in thereafter.

On the contray I have taken on another project - helping a Senior Lecturer in Contextual and Critical Studies who speicalises in product design to film a piece of research work.
This work, although unpaid, is something I have never done and found interesting. The research itself explores 3 different types of materials on dancers and how they can react to given music.

Filming for both projects will happen on the same day this week.

20100504

PRP artefacts..done!

final artefact - artefact 6

This was an inconclusive artefact.

Upon completing 5 artefacts I suddenly realised there were basic statistics I hadn't established in the first place so this artefact was in fact a general survey about how people watch TV, helping me put my previous artefact conclusions into a final conclusion.

there is no final conclusion linked to this artefact - but findings shows the following statistics (survey group size = 40)
65% of the people watch 1-3 hours of tv a day, 85% watches tv during 1700-2300.
80% of respondents owns some form of satellite tv equipment (BT/Sky/Virgin/Freeview)
and
85% of all tv viewers admit to flicking channels frequently to avoid seeing adverts
with
75% of respondents using online player more often mainly due to ease of access

now - onto the final presentation!

20100420

artefact 5

following my last artefact, this artefact has been designed the question the level of tolerance general public has for product placement.

The same 5 clips were shown and a different questionaire was drawn up to see exactly where the line is.

the finding, out of 14 people, was that most people thought it was acceptable as long as it 'makes sense'. For example, it can form part of the story line and have a relevance to the storyline, but if the storyline was written for a product then it becomes unacceptable, in which it made them feel 'manipulated and cheated'

20100416

artefact 4

it was time for me to change my game plan ( not that anything had gone according to my initial researh document anyway).

Since nobody picked out PPL (it was hard to test people accurately on a subconscious level), I changed the strategy by tying in a more ethical perspective - if they find it offensive and intruding.

This was 5 clip viewing with corresponding questions at the end of each short clip.

conclusion was that people DO get offended by certain types of product placement, the more obvious the more annoyance.

20100323

PhoenixPlus.co.uk presents - 'Quarter to Midnight'


ta dah - end product of the client project. complete with menus

20100309

PhoenixPlus.co.uk presents CNY10

Nearly final product of the PhoenixPlus CNY10 video - still needs touching up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wSKNLyzyzA