biennialFreerunner: Design Document

Monday, 30 June 2008

Design Document

Dave what do you reckon to something like this for the master layout? The initial pages can be adapted to include more text on one side then maybe a few illustrations down the side. Ignore the comment about the portrait format last night, layout ufolded itself thismorning.

I think what would be best is if you e-mail me everything that needs to go in it (even if it's at intervals) rather than you try and figure out how I'm working in InDesign. Just Word .docs for the text clearly labeled with page number and heading you want it under and the same for images, I assume they'll all be on here or flickr somewhere so just copy the urls into the document so I can source them.

I was going to treat the header type with some texture like the current 'logo' but for the time it would take and loss of editablity within the doc then it would probably be form over function.

Just took another screengrab with the header fixed (kind of, the red strip needs resizing I know) and with some placeholder images to get a better idea of how it looks. Is roughly 2 images per section ok? Exceptions can obviously be worked into it when I have the content. Maybe page numbers in bottom right incase anyone prints it. I'll line the texture up in the background so the crease is in the centre too and tighten up the typography.
Like I say, bit cryptic when all I have to go on is headers so might totally change when the info comes rolling in.

For the asset list can you send me the table (whatever you made it in, excel? Or just word? I have both anyway) I assume you can drop tables into ID somehow, or export the table as an image.

I also have no clue what the quick reference list would be, another table?

My Dad knows you're leaving the greenscreen CD with him, when you have your meeting with Dave Bentick can you try installing keylight into your AE and make sure it works. Despite the scale of some of my previous pirate adventures, ahem, I can't find the plugin anywhere so I need the plug and the serial/keygen on the CD.

*Edit

Just done a few tweaks to the layout to balance it out a bit... Also there's a quick motion test for the credits on my blog. It's nowhere near yet, a few ideas I had didn't really add anything, less is more...

anyway, layout:

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Dave Wood is Scouse-Scot30 June 2008 at 12:51
Just the job. I'll email them tonight.
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Matt Frodsham30 June 2008 at 12:52
cheers
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The Project

Traceur Tag
De La Salle School in collaboration with St Helens College

The theme for the schools project, Future, Fiction and Fantasy, seemed to instantly form a connection with our idea to produce a piece of work using Parkour and the virtual world as the concept. This film was a collaborative effort between De La Salle School and St Helens College and it was only through this collaboration that the desire to create a film based on the computer game genre was realised.

It was at the initial stages of the collaboration that contemporary artworks such as Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle proved influential along with the film Jump Britain and a variety of computer games such as Halo and Unreal, which helped us to establish the kinds of environment that could form the basis for the film.

Without a doubt the vehicle which supported this project’s creative growth and encouraged clear communication throughout was this blog, instigated by Dave Wood. This blog became a hub of activity which maintained consistency in content during the six month period. Ideas, thoughts, concerns, artistic references and discussions were posted daily, hourly and often by the minute in pursuit of our collective goal.

The most interesting element of the blog, from an educational perspective, was the innovative approach to formative assessment, providing rapid responses to creative problems in a contemporary manner aiding motivation and communication. Both De La Salle School and St Helens College are now exploring ways in which blogs can impact upon student’s development and bring assessment methods into the 21st Century.

This film explores a passion for an activity that in society can be considered as subversive or anti social and channels that enthusiasm into a creative medium. From a school’s point of view the boys were given an opportunity to express themselves in a language that is comfortable to them but in a safe environment, they worked with students witnessing the creative process in action but also what vocational links art can provide.

Finally, working on the School’s Project with the Biennial team has provided us with a fantastic opportunity to investigate contemporary approaches to schemes of work, work collaboratively between different institutions and the community and develop effective forms of communication, all of which have supported our personal development for the delivery of new initiatives such as the re-launch of the Secondary Curriculum and the introduction of the Creative and Media Diploma.

Joanne Millea

Whois biennialFreerunner?

biennialFreerunner Productions is the creative collective formed out of this Biennial project. It soon became apparent to Dave and Jo that the pooled talent, the excitement and the dedication of the students and graduates had naturally formed into a "Hot Group" of multi-disciplinary creatives. As such, the project Jo had brought to Dave had evolved beyond its original scope and remit. It was therefore only natural to give this multi-disciplinary team a collective identity. The biennialFreerunner blog had actually become biennialFreerunner Productions.

There are 6 core collective members and 1 associate member of this collective: co-founders Dave Wood and Jo Millea, Adam Hamilton, Matt Frodsham, Dave Bentick and Stas Krakiewicz. Jose Flores is based in Brighton and his opening scenes were produced remotely.

Already one member of this collective has gone onto make a music video for a band as a result of his experiences as part of this collective.

See www.biennialfreerunner.com for more information or email info@biennialfreerunner.com.

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