Title page for client proposal

Not necessarily the final version of my proposal front page, but since it was mentioned today in the lecture I thought I'd start to draft some ideas, I want a simplistic yet modern feel to my work and I want this to come across from the initial proposal.

Start up company

I have decided to create a digital magazine with a similar premise to aggregation websites such as hypemachine & elbo.ws.
The magazine would work like a news site, constantly updated with options to favourite stories, share them, comment them. However rather than reporting every story subjects would come from whatever is popular on the web at the moment, using information from blogs and social medias. There are already iPad apps which work in this way, however my idea is that not only would the service be an iPad app, it would also have a strong online presence which could be transferred to any tablet or smartphone through an app. Subject matter would be music, working with services such as last.fm and spotify to learn your music tastes and recommend videos, gigs, other artists and articles.
Google attempted to launch a service similair to this in 2009 with Fastflip, however this was unsuccessful. Whereas free iPad app, Zite, was recently purchased for $20 million by CNN, showing that when done right this can be an extremely lucrative market.

StartUp factory report

While looking into what I wanted to create I was looking at production companies and as I was researching I realised I much prefer to analyze these companies rather than to create my own. Which brought me to think of magazines and how they are changing with the new digital medias. We were shown a digital magazine in a tutorial which was an app in which the articles were clickable and they brought up videos and other media. This is the kind of route I'd like to go down with my company, I already have knowledge of these as I read digital issues myself so research will be to look more in depth at these existing apps and how they work.

For my digital magazine I'd like to focus on culture - the arts and music, as there is so much interactive content which could be included it seems like the obvious choice as that's also where my interests lie.

Zinio - digital reseller of magazines/books.

Start Up Company Research

Websites of existing companies:

Tribe Inc set design

Left Eye Blind music promotions and film making

Research project

I've been reading more to get more depth on my research topic cause I'm really struggling to find a question. I looked into how colours make you feel by reading a journal about an experiment tested on university students which has given me some inspiration. I also looked at the Technoetic journals following on from Simon's lecture on the research project. I found some really interesting articles regarding projects which experiment with perception and interaction and I'm going to read more into those tomorrow. I really want to create some visuals for my project which can be used in club environments, looking at people currently doing this like Kenzo Digital and Ali Demirel, amongst others.

Ideas for Simulated Client Brief

WORDS from Everynone on Vimeo.


Made by Everynone (in Collaboration with WNYC's Radiolab & NPR)

Directed by Daniel Mercadante & Will Hoffman

A short film by Everynone made up of clips of everyday situations. Thought provoking, it makes the audience think about what they are watching as each clips flows into the next, linking different meanings and descriptions for the same words, then flowing on to others. Below shows the film recreated using existing YouTube videos.


Re:WORDS from Everynone on Vimeo.



Watching these and the other films created by Everynone have really helped me in getting a direction I'd like to take with the project for the Nottingham Trent Alumni. I'm hoping to focus more on which part of the Alumni I'd like to advertise and hopefully start to think of some shots. Originally I was going to focus on the donating side, possibly with a thank you film or showing where the money went to, however in my tutorial Danny suggested that this may work well with the cancer research part of the donation scheme.

Music Video

 love the effects in this video from TEEBS. I'd quite like to experiment with these kind of effects in my final projects.

Teebs "Moments" from Paul Trillo on Vimeo.

Design work

Since my last post I've fallen into a bit of luck, a friend of mine who worked for a fashion supplier passed my information on saying that I had a background in design, he's since asked me to create some promotional work and create the graphics for a website. This is an ongoing project and I will post the link when it's completed.
I've also sorted some work with my friend who does fashion photography and styling, we're planning a shoot with some models for her (and my!) portfolio. I'll be working on a set with her helping her sort shoots and doing hair/make up.
Very excited to get stuck in! :)

Work experience

As part of getting remotivated for third year I've sent off a few emails to local film makers hoping to gain some experience, one is for set design and props for a horror film which sounds really interesting. Hopefully I'll hear back from them.

Neglected

WOW.. My poor blog has seriously been neglected these past few months, I'm blaming it on the discovery of tumblr and lack of motivation to make serious posts. I will be making a conscious effort to post on here over summer as much as possible to get my back into the habit of using this again for the new year.

I'll end this comeback post with some imagery from my favourite photographer Pierre Debuscherre.