Context Of Practice

I was very happy with how the app turned out especially the positive responses I've seen when people have been playing with it. The app ...

After testing a windows version of the app I realised that it was difficult to quit the app. I decided to add the option of quiting the app ...

Sound and art have been two media that have been linked for a long time,  a good early example is the work of Russian abstract painter Kandi...

A key practitioner for this essay has been musician Brian Eno. He is a very important practitioner in the audio visual realm as he has pione...

I started to look at apps which could benefit the arts not by being arts themselves but helping to facilitate them. After my talks with Li...

Liam was recommended to me as a good person to talk as he has a great deal on knowledge on the uses of digital art and measuring user intera...

I tested the app on a few people as a development build to see if they could navigate how it works. This was a very useful step as I realise...

The apps identity was important and would definitely help in both making people play it and remember it. The identity of the app from my ori...

Using the knowledge I'd gained from asking practitioners about creating an engaging app I started planing the user interface (UI) for th...

I wanted a title screen for the app as I think it gives a nice introduction to the app and allow people to get ready to start engaging at th...

During the creation of the final app in unity I ran into some problems which needed solving. The first was the original structure of the ap...

I started my research journey by reading through some key books mostly on the the topics of technology, culture and value. Some of these key...

Making the app was a cross between design process and technical testing to make sure the app worked. Attached is an issue document showing ...

After I did tests in resolume to see how the app worked I wanted to see how the actual thing would be built. After previous research into th...

To start contextualising what I was researching I tried putting parts together to create a rough chapter draft. I hoped I could see whether ...

Once I'd got a large body of research done I needed to start contextualising into an actual essay. I started planning how the essay woul...

When researching I came across a paper by the the Arts Council England which was an incredibly useful point of reference for my research. Th...

After the advice given by my tutor I sought the insight of our colleges curator Catriona. In the meeting we discussed my overall topic, my...

After finalising how my app was going to work with the second app test I started researching how I could actually create a functioning app. ...

After creating the second app test in which I created my own music it was apparent that I would not be able to make all the music myself in ...

I wanted to look into what makes app's the most engaging via features/interfacing. I emailed the developers of the apps I thought were ...

After receiving feedback from the previous test I did I went about doing another one. From feedback I got I new I needed to make the videos ...

I wanted to get more in-depth look on what makes apps enjoyable and have that "sticky" factor. The best way of organising all the ...

After taking a new direction for my project, I started looking into interactive media. Looking at apps in general rather than games I got a ...

After taking a new direction for my project, I started looking into interactive media. Looking at apps in general rather than games I got a ...

For my presentation I demonstrated the "app" test I'd created and the ethos behind the project. The main point of this for me ...

I came into this dissertation project having a rough idea of the practical aspect I wanted to create. I had been wanting to work on the idea...

I know that I want to look at the relationship between audio and visual again like I did last year so I started by looking into all the book...

After looking into audio visual media and starting to veer towards apps I started to look into concepts of ephemerality. Ephemerality is a c...

After looking into the original ideas over my summer proposal I decided I wanted to take a different path for my research. I felt my origina...

The basis for my visual response was to directly input into my essay. Since my question was hard to get solid evidence that directly answer...

This lecture was a very interesting one with many concepts that I had never heard of. I did unfortunately struggle to relate this to my work...

Ideas on pre-modern identity although interesting seemed irrelevant to todays society though may apply still in other parts of the world. Mo...

This lecture touched on what I thought would be very general themes that would likely having little relevance to my practice. There where ho...

The flipped class room looks at the way we learn and how it can and arguably should be changed. A flipped classroom involves a change in tea...

The question I have chosen has been a personal one that I've wanted to solve and is also relevant to my creative practice. Its also a qu...

Death of the animator Animation, Especially in the last few decades has always swiftly adapted to new and emerging technologies. Death ...

Animation in the commercial realm is was the polar opposite to the auteurship seminar. Where an auteur created animation for artistic purpos...

Genre is a method of categorisation of film. Genre is an currently an essential part of film as the fabric of the film industry has been bui...

 These are my finished story boards for the short scene. The key aspect of them is the changing genders, that is the critical part to this a...

These were my final designs for the character design. I decided on the skin the blue skin tone for a couple of reasons. The first was I rea...

From my mood board I started designing characters. I was designing a working husband and a house wife but needed both designed in both gend...