Thursday, 18 May 2017

Studio Brief 4 - Mock up of Cards

Prompt Cards 


For the prompt cards the photocopier was used as a way of producing them and allowed for a playful aesthetic to be created. The categories of cards were divided into noun, adjective and verb however these, it was considered, were too formal for the set of cards and did not reflect the experimental approach of the content. Instead the titles were changed to thing (noun category), description (adjective category) ,action (verb category) and material. Although easier to understand, some of the titles would need altering because phrasing which does not accurately represent the types of words (e.g. description could be describe).






The different types of card would be colour copied in one colour. Using bright colours will avoid confusion between cards whilst also making the design striking and playful to look at. Printing in yellow however may be too bright on the white making it hard to read, so this could be changed to another colour.  Printing the words out on paper then tearing them down to size to be photocopied meant that each card was completely unique however shared a consistent aesthetic. When the snippets were placed on the photocopier bed the lift was left up to create a dark block colour background. The snippets curled slightly which meant that tone was created within the images creating a three dimensional look. When cut down the borders from the photocopier were left on to further emphasise the technique whilst also creating individually unique cards simply.

Lists of possible prompt words / items in each category  

Materials

Tape
Wire
String
Card
Pen
Gridded Paper
Ink
Paper Clips 
Blue Tac 
Stickers
Foil
Elastic Bands
Paper
Tracing Paper
Post it Notes

Materials would include a broad range of easily available ever day objects which can be adapted to create something new.


Noun - Thing

Shape
Square
Circle
Triangle
Line
Oval
Rectangle
Rhombus
Heart
Kite
Diamond

Object
Chair
Tea
Egg
Apple
Tree
Flower
Ball
Moon
Pencil 

Letter
a
g
W
X
e
j
Q
N
S
G
D
b
o­­­­­­
R


Punctuation
Bracket
Exclamation mark
Asterisk
Question Mark
Equals sign
Comma
Ampersand
Hashtag  
At sign
Full stop 
Semi colon 
colon 
hyphen
quotation marks
slash
forward slash 
ellipsis

Within the noun category this would have letters, objects,shapes and punctuation from which materials would be used to visualise the noun. This would increase understanding of graphic symbols as well as encourage interpretation of a given subject.  


Verbs
twist 
roll
crease 
fold
bend
cut
rotate
scatter
cover
dig
expand 
photocopy 
chip
crumple
mix
enclose 

Adjectives
Buoyant 
Broken 
Shiny 
Small
Cold 
Healthy 
loud
slow
natural 
neat 
ancient 
confused
long 
bright 
burnt 

Both the verbs and adjectives would be more subjective to visualise which would lead to more varied outcomes, whilst also being the more difficult to create.

Having different piles with the verbs and adjectives being quite hard to visualise and the nouns being simpler because of their physicality means there would be something for all degrees of understanding.  

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