Announcements

• Tribeca Immersive Arcade
• More CAD software:
  • https://www.vectary.com/
  • https://www.3dslash.net/
• Final Project requirements are now updated. Note the Bibliography (non-annotated) requirement.
• Final Deliverables are now updated.
  • You must be present and on-time at the final class on May 4.
  • Final Deliverables are due on your website and Google drive on May 6 @ 10AM.
• Extra credit (10 points added to your final project grade): Attend a training at any of NYU’s Makerspaces and document it with
  • 3+ photos and
  • 2+ paragraphs.
    Be sure to take a photo and record the name of the training instructor for this assignment to be counted.
• Box Designers:
  • http://boxdesigner.connectionlab.org
  • http://www.makercase.com
  • https://makeabox.io

Agenda

• Prototyping Exercise
• Persona Exercise
• Storytelling Exercise
• Review of Final Requirements
• Looking ahead
  • Next week (April 27): final work time, Isaac’s presentation, 1-on-1 pre-grade check-ins, storytelling guest Mo Beasley
  • Final class (May 4): guest critics from NYU Makerspace, FUREE, Trello, Institute of Culinary Education, Map Kibera Trust. Let me know if you’d like to be paired with any particular critic.
• 1-on-1s and work time
  • Materials: If you are still working out the materials of your final prototype, let’s talk about this in our 1-on-1.

Assignments

• POST
  1. Finish your medium-fi prototype and document it with an image and/or text explanation. Is this a looks-like, feels-like, or works-like prototype?
  2. Post a draft for the framing story of your final project. Please answer: what does your imagined future (Prompt 1) or real context (Prompt 2) look, sound, and feel like?
  3. Post a draft for the message of your final project. Who is your potential audience, and what message would you transmit to them (either from the future or the present)?
  4. (If applicable) Catch up on making your less lo-fi prototype. If you made something today, document it–it counts as part of the prototype process.
  5. (If applicable) Constant input/output. If you’re merging your prototype into your constant input/output, MARK THIS ON YOUR POSTS.
• BRING your prototypes/sketches/project files/materials etc to show and work on in class.

Announcements

• Note: sketches are important, but if you plan to make a physical object(s), be sure to start prototyping physical objects.
• Final Project requirements are now updated. Note the Bibliography (non-annotated) requirement.
• Final Deliverables are now updated.
  • You must be present and on-time at the final class on May 4.
  • Final Deliverables are due on your website and Google drive on May 6 @ 10AM.
• Slideshow from Alexis Treviso (at2848 @nyu)
  • Also: eltonkwok@nyu (for checking out equipment)
•  Challenges/grants
  • NYU Makerspace $50 Mini-grant (use NYU ID to see form)
• Spaces
  • NYU Makerspace blog
  • MAGNET Fabspace
  • NYU Leslie Lab prototyping room
  • NYU La Guardia Studio

Agenda

• Tandon Makerspace Tour
• Guest Maker: Jie Qi
• Class updates
• 1-on-1 and prototyping time. Note that you have 2 remaining in-class work sessions after today!

Assignments

• POST
  1. Finish your less lo-fi prototype and document it with an image and/or text explanation. Is this a looks-like, feels-like, or works-like prototype?
  2. Read One Designer Shares: How to Use Design to Tell a Story OR Watch/Listen to at least one of the TED: Storytelling Videos and post your response. Please answer and be prepared to discuss next week:
     • Did this article/video give you new ideas for how you will tell the story (frame/message) of your prototype?
     • If so, what are the new ideas?
     • If not, why?
  3. (If applicable) Constant input/output. If you’re merging your prototype into your constant input/output, MARK THIS ON YOUR POSTS.
• BRING your prototypes/sketches/project files/materials etc to show and work on in class.

Announcements

• Final Requirements
  • Thing
  • Message
  • Process
•  Challenges/grants
  • Nike Circular Design Challenge
  • NYU Makerspace $50 Mini-grant (use NYU ID to see form)
• Spaces
  • NYU Makerspace blog
  • MAGNET Fabspace
  • NYU Leslie Lab prototyping room
  • NYU La Guardia Studio
• Books: The Three-Body Problem, The Left Hand of Darkness
• 1st Half Submissions

Agenda

• Updates: your timelines, plans, & tests
• Basic Electricity & Microcontrollers
• Guest student: Alexis Treviso
• VR CAD: Google Blocks and Tiltbrush
• Prototyping time

Assignments

• POST
  1. Finish your lo-fi prototype and document it with images/video and text explanation. Is it a looks-like, feels-like, or works-like prototype?
  2. Start your less lo-fi prototype and document it with an image and/or text explanation.
  3. Write the Love Letter / Breakup Letter.
  4. (If applicable) Constant input/output. If you’re merging your prototype into your constant input/output, MARK THIS ON YOUR POSTS.
• BRING your prototypes/sketches/project files/etc to show and work on in class.

Announcements

• Midterm grades
• MAGNET fabspace: Today
• Tandon Makerspace: April 12
• Prototyping in VR?

Agenda

• Prototyping Overview
  • Review: Remember all the tools you already have: moodboard, storyboards, sketching, photo documentation, “brainwriting” with post-its (good for collaboration), animatics, etc.
  • Prototyping: works like / feels like / looks like
    • MIT lecture
  • Prototyping module. cardboard, clay, paper, legos.
    • Techniques: Instructables
  • Digital Fab overview
    • Fab intro: Why prototype? Why use CAD? Why use digital fabrication?
    • Updates on your plans/interests
    • 3D CAD: Ultimaker
      • Model Sources: Turbosquid, Thingiverse, etc.
      • Making models: Autodesk, phone apps, VR
    • 2D vector/raster: Illustrator, Photoshop, Autodesk, Sketch, etc.
  • PLANNING: Try to use cheap, self-serve machines when you can. If you are new to digital fab and want to use it in this class, consider working with a partner or group.
• One-on-ones AND
• Prototyping workshop time
  • Evolution Timeline: Influential Objects.
  • Planning timeline: Lo-fi, less lo-fi, medium-fi, hi-fi.
  • Start working on a lo-fi.
  • (Optional): Complete a tutorial to practice preparing a digital fab file.
• 1:30: Magnet Makerspace training

Assignments

• Post
  1. First Draft of Evolution Timeline. This will help you with telling the story of your project. I’ll ask you to adjust this timeline as your object evolves, and submit this with your final.
  2. First Draft of Planning Timeline. You will also want to keep adjusting this as well. Please answer:
     • Who are you working with?
     • What is your general object?
     • What is your plan for a lo-fi prototoype? When do you plan to finish it?
     • What is your plan for a less lo-fi prototoype? When do you plan to finish it?
     • What is your plan for a medium-fi prototoype? When do you plan to finish it?
     • What is your plan for a hi-fi prototoype? When do you plan to finish it?
  3. Documentation of working on your lo-fi prototype.
  4. (If applicable) Constant input/output.

Announcements

• Now Available: Midterm Grade Sheet
• Reminder: Submit Self-Assessment

Agenda

• 11:05-11:15 Part 1 Introduction: David Briggs
• 11:15-11:30 Hayao Miyazaki by
  Christine Choe, Sean Choi, & Joris Kwong
• 11:30-11:45 Frida Kahlo by
  Nic Parada & Zhi Jia Peh
• 11:45-12:00 Martin Luther King, Jr. by
  Ray Lim & Nathan Smith
• 12:00-12:15 Steve Jobs by
  Isaac Lee & Eric Modzelewski
• 12:15-12:20 Part 1 Closing Remarks
• 12:20-12:40 Break
• 12:40-12:50 Part 2 Introduction: Jen Chin
• 12:50-1:05 Ai Weiwei by
  Wentao Wang & Petrina Yeow
• 01:05-01:20 Amelia Earhart by
  Ying Ying Lim & Wang Yusong
• 01:20-01:35 Marie Curie by
  Jax Liu & Laura Schlossman
• 01:35-01:50 Zaha Hadid by
  Dan Li & Phoebe Swinn
• 01:50-02:05 J.K. Rowling by
  Jonathan Quek & David Verghese
• 02:05-02:20 Closing Remarks
• 02:20-02:40 Next steps: midterm grades and prototyping

Assignments Due March 30

• POST
  • 1. Future Dystopia / Utopia Project
    • Brainstorm Themes & Ideas
    • Ideate Framing Story: What does your imagined future look, sound, and feel like?
    • Ideate Message: What message would you transmit to the current population from the future?
  • 2. Prototyping thoughts:
    • What techniques are you thinking of using?
    • What might you need to learn to use these techniques?
    • What are some of the execution challenges you might encounter with these techniques?
  • 3. (if applicable this week) Your constant input assignment

Announcements

• Midterm project is due after break
• Creator presentations: No laptops or phones allowed. Please review class policy on Technology Use in the Classroom in the syllabus.
• Guest critics for midterm
• Bibliography polish: spelling, grammar, title/author (yourselves), alphabetize, MLA format. Make sure each citation has an author!
• Purdue OWL: Annotated Bibliography. See samples and MLA format here.
• Now Available: Midterm Grade Sheet

Agenda

• Creative Process Project
  • Pair critiques
  • Bibliographies and updates
    • Hayao Miyazaki
      Steve Jobs
      Zaha Hadid
      Martin Luther King, Jr.
      Amelia Earhart
      Marie Curie
      Frida Kahlo
      J.K. Rowling
      Ai Weiwei
• Break
• Pair Critiques
• Workshopping

Assignments Due March 23

• Finish Creative Process Project (Midterm)
• Self-assessment

Announcements

• You are now accountable to your collaborator.
• Next week is the last in-class work session for the Creator project.
• Creator Student examples (See week 1 in syllabus)
  • Payton
    • Animatic
    • Hybrid
    • Final
  • Jing
    • Animatic
    • Hybrid
    • Final
• More announcements coming in the 2nd half of class.

Agenda

• Creator Project: Examples, Discussion, Progress
  • Politics: History vs Che Guevara
  • Science: Dr. Sally Ride on Dumb Questions
  • No voiceover: Science Bulletins
  • Your animatics
• Break
• Deeper Dive into Annotated Bibliographies
  • Module 4
  • Purdue OWL: Annotated Bibliographies
  • Diverse sources
• Audio/Time: scripting and recording exercise
  • Scripting and recording audio
    • CDC podcast scripting guide
• Bibliography exercise
  • Hayao Miyazaki
    Steve Jobs
    Zaha Hadid
    Martin Luther King, Jr.
    Amelia Earhart
    Marie Curie
    Frida Kahlo
    J.K. Rowling
    Ai Weiwei

Assignments Due Next Friday, March 9

• Post
  • Your constant input assignment (if applicable this week)
  • Continue to tighten your annotated bibliography based on class discussion. We will review your revisions next week.
  • Script and add audio and/or motion  to your animatic/video to start tightening the timing and story.
  • Watch and reflect on the following short videos, which continue to discuss time in a video/movie/animation. Discuss if and how you will utilize the suggestions from these videos.
    • Authentic Narrative (journalism perspective, considers sourcing)
    • Slowing down time in film and writing
    • How to write descriptively
    • Time and Motion
    • Animation: Timing (and motion)
  • Optional: Iterate on any previous materials (moodboard, storyboard, etc) that might need revision for your Creator project.

Announcements

• You are now accountable to your collaborator.
• NYU Web Publishing
• NLP Text as Data Series
• Digital Humanities Research Institute
• Nat Geo short film contest
• NYU Tandon Women in Tech events
• AT&T Film contest

Agenda

• Module 5: Animatics
  • Going backwards: Star Wars Cantina scene, Cantina animatic
• Metal/Oprah exercise
• Break
• Student examples (See week 1 in syllabus)
  • Payton
    • Animatic
    • Hybrid
    • Final
  • Jing
    • Animatic
    • Hybrid
    • Final
• Moodboard discussion. How does it pave the way for a storyboard?
• Storyboard exercise
• Animatic exercise

Assignments Due Next Friday, March 2

• Post
  • Your constant input assignment (if applicable this week)
  • Iterate on your Creator Annotated Bibliography.
  • Post and reflect on the storyboard and animatic you developed with your classmate collaborator(s).
  • Iterations on your moodboard (optional)

Announcements

• NBCUniversal Blockchain Prototyping Fellowship: Content Monetization. NYC-based students are invited to apply in and build new prototypes that can advance blockchain technologies for media. 
  
• Black Writers in a Post-Obama America, Tuesday, February 27th. Join us for a panel discussion hosted by the Brooklyn Historical Society. This panel begs the question, does literature by black writers demand a response to the country’s racism? Especially today, is there an onus on writers of color to shine a spotlight on racial injustice? Hear from authors Kaitlyn Greenidge, Bernice McFadden, Garnette Cadogan, and Quincy Troupe in a discussion moderated by novelist and Distinguished Professor at Hunter College, Elizabeth Nunez. A reception will precede the panel discussion. The reception will begin at 5:30 pm and the program will begin at 6:30 pm. Light refreshments will be served. To RSVP, please call 212-998-2400 or fill out the online form.
• NYU Center for the Humanities Events Calendar
• Tandon Makerspace: DFA Intro to Design Thinking.

Agenda

• Remix Exercise
• Module 3
• Project 1 Groups
• Break
• Module 4
• Collaborative Exercise
  • why
  • question for collaborator
  • theme
  • process
  • Groups:
    • 1. Share your post-its
    • 2. Discuss any further questions and issues. E.g.
      • Do you want to stick with this creator?
      • Do you need to narrow it down?
      • What aspect of the creator’s creative process might you focus on?
    • Share your creator-related web site post. The 2+ sources, and the moodboard sketch.
    • Put together a collaborative moodboard.

Assignments Due Next Friday, February 23

• Watch or listen to one of the following pairs:
  • Metal Gear Solid Doc 2 AND Metal Gear Solid Doc 4
  • Making Oprah Episode 2 AND Making Oprah Episode 3
• Post
  • Write your response to the Metal Gear Solid documentaries OR the Making Oprah podcast episodes. Do not write summaries. In other words, do not regurgitate. Discuss any epiphanies or insights that occurred while watching, compare and contrast the process of the two videos or episodes, how it reflects your own process (or does not and why) or how it will inform or change your own process (or will not and why).
  • Your constant input assignment (if applicable this week)
  • Post a few more notes on your Creator:
    • Iterations or new updates to your Annotated Bibliography.
    • Post a picture and reflect on the combined moodboard you developed with your classmate collaborator(s).
    • Sketch out a quick storyboard of either
      • 3 images drawn by you (with text explanations)
      • 3 short paragraphs of text written by you

Hayao Miyazaki
Sean, Christine, Joris

Steve Jobs / Adam Savage
Eric, Isaac

Zaha Hadid
Dan, Phoebe

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nathan, Ray

Amelia Earhart
Yusong, Ying Ying

Marie Curie / Ada Lovelace
Laura, Jax

Frida Kahlo
Zhi Jia, Nic

J.K. Rowling
David, Jonathan

Ai Weiwei
Petrina, Wentao