Making Things FLY!

This is a video on how we made the paper crane and the airplane fly.

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This is our awesome poster. Click on the image to view it bigger.

Waiters & Waitresses

Special thanks to everyone who participated in our project despite fears that we would butcher their photos with unwanted content. To see a slideshow and gallery of each stranger/friend who helped to make this video a possibility, follow the link below.

FOOD - Contributions!

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STOP MOTION?

When we presented our project idea to the class, we received many comments. However, one in particular saved us a lot of time:

Whited, Walker Lewis (Sep 16, 2011 12:32 PM EDT) To cut the time in half, instead of taking a ton of pictures, video them and then when you put the video on the timeline in your editing program you just cut little splices out of the timeline so it looks like stop motion.

One of the scenes was completed by taking pictures of each "major" movement (the scene is in the Buffering... 5% video). It turned out nicely, but we concluded that it would be too difficult to do this for longer scenes.

Therefore, we filmed scenes and used GomPlayer (free program) to screen capture each fraction of the video.

Example:

Initial Video



Stop Motion Editing Process



I hope that rough tutorial inspires you to make a stop motion video of your own! It's time consuming, but fun!

Buffering... 5%

Below is a short clip from our video.

The project is work in progress, and a lot of work still has to be done.

Food Art

Currently, I'm in the process of drawing foods for each individual, who volunteered their time to provide us with their favorite food.

Here are some of the pictures I have drawn:

Capturing the Moment

For the past two weeks I've been spending my spare time asking random individuals if they would like to participate in our project by asking them their favorite food and activity. After recording this information, I would then ask if it was okay if I took a picture of them holding a blank white sheet of paper to their chest. For the most part, the first half of the process was easy. People didn't hesitate to answer questions about food, but the picture taking proved to be more difficult. This is where I lost their interest. Interesting enough, most of the girls I asked were extremely kind until I asked to take their picture. After that triggering question, their smiles would vanish and a horrifying look would suddenly dawn upon their eyes. Guys on the other hand were more agreeable and didn't seem to think much of it at all.

The majority of the time, people participated with ease and were generous with their time. However, one day as I was walking down Tech Walkway, I saw another group of students with a sign "Want a Cookie?" Looking closely at their strategy, I realized their tactic was to lure their prey in with food and go in for the kill by telling them that they would only receive it if they participated in the project. Clever. If I had done this I'm sure I would have had a line of participants waiting. However, our group didn't want to "bribe" students to participate, because the process would defeat the purpose of a collaborative creativity project.

STRANGER DANGER?

If you haven't been keeping up with our project, here's a recap:

Our group is making a stop motion video about food. The plan is to take pictures of strangers at Georgia Tech and to ask them about their favorite food, then to put the collection of photos together into a quick montage. After the montage, the scene changes to people participating in activities, such as sports or studying (food for thought), to encourage viewers to participate in activities that “keep them going” and to share these activities with us and other viewers in a comment or a video response. When we presented the idea to the class last Friday, we received a lot of feedback. Many people were confused on the connection between food and food for thought, as well as on the “point” or "purpose" of the project. This feedback led to a group discussion about the overarching theme. There is still some debate. However, I believe that the beginning montage of people holding up their favorite foods allows us to present the audience with the “standard” perception of food, which we later compare/contrast with our idea of food as something that keeps someone going through stress and hardships. If the confusion continues, we may change the montage of people with their favorite foods to a montage of people with their favorite activities.

So, the past two days, I have been going around the Georgia Tech campus attempting to recruit people for our invention mob project. The mission of acquiring approximately 40 – 50 photos of strangers was divided between me and Paul Kim, leaving us both with the responsibility of taking 20 – 25 photos. The first day, Hannah Kwon and I started our “recruitment” process by approaching and asking people on Tech Walkway. However, people responded negatively to this method. Therefore, we decided to quickly create a sign to encourage interested people to come to us. That day, we sat and walked around campus taking turns holding the sign (shown below). We received many curious looks, but in the end, fourteen people were curious enough to volunteer and participate in our project. The second day was not as successful. I "advertised" our project alone for approximately thirty minutes and only three people volunteered. However, two of the three volunteers were very interested in the project and provided me with their contact information to share the final project with them in October.

Reflecting upon the process of recruiting volunteers, I have thought of new methods to engage more people. I feel like our sign was poorly made and did not grab the attention of many passersby. We could have written a more intriguing sign or added more color, something more fun and creative. Hannah and I also discussed the possibility of wearing fun masks to attract more people. Considering the purpose of the invention mobs, I also would have liked to include more creativity of the volunteers (other than their ability to make faces for the camera) into the project, possibly setting up a table with paper and coloring materials to allow volunteers to draw a picture of their favorite food on their own. Without extensive resources, some of these ideas are not plausible. However, new ideas can always be used in the future.

Thanks for reading, and if you have any suggestions about our project, please leave a comment, especially if it pertains to the concept or purpose of the project.

The original blog post can be found here:

http://hbyun7.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/stranger-danger/?trashed=1&ids=7#comments

FOOD

Below is a link to an introduction to our invention mob project:

http://prezi.com/m4vqoqmj2xw2/invention-mob/

The presentation is missing certain aspects of our project. Extra information can be found in later blog posts.

The Idea

On Friday, we were split up into groups. I grouped up with Hannah, Haley, and Paul, and we all introduced ourselves. All of us brought in various items we had made: a paper crane, a paper ball, a crochet ball, and a crochet cat. We did quite a lot of productive brainstorming.

The items led the group to share the things we enjoyed and the talents we had to get a feel for something we might all be interested in. Hannah shared an animation she had made, and I shared some games I had coded. We are all a bit creative, and after some suggestions and some rejections, we thought that a video might be a really fun and creative thing to make. We weren't entirely sure what the video would be about, but we all agreed on producing a video.

So, our next task was to decide the method of production. We bounced a lot of ideas around, but one thing stuck quite quickly. After sharing a few videos, we really wanted to create a stop-motion video! Stop-motion videos are very entertaining and can be completed on a low budget for a high quality video. We thought this would also make it easy to incorporate people from all over campus, as we could show individual frames of different people. We decided to fit lots of people into a short video all set on one theme.

Inspiration videos:

T-Shirt War! (Stop-motion video)

500 People in 100 Seconds!

Food. Everyone loves food... It connects all of us, so why not make a video about it? But food alone wasn't enough of a topic to make an influential video, so we expanded food into 'food for thought,' things people do to sustain themselves, such as sports and hobbies. What do college students, especially at Tech, do to relieve stress from all their schoolwork?