Saturday, September 20, 2008

Burn your calories in 30 minutes

Ok, so what I've come up with so far isn't much in detail, because I was having a hard time deciding on the amount of info to show. But anyway, here's what I'm thinking for now.

- Exercise type: jogging, rowing, weightlifting, stretching
- Duration: is set as 30 minutes
- Calories
- Weight: 130 / 150 / 170 lbs.
- Speed for jogging and rowing / Intensity for weightlifting and stretching
- and Foods with equivalent calories

4 types of exercise will be my main Categories and I won't need much of other things in LATCH. Instead the most effective way to help the audience understand the info will be by comparison among types of exercise and those with food.

As for ways to represent each variables,
- Exercise type: photographs or movies
- Duration: time bar or clock-looking circle
- Calories: bar or circle (different sizes)
- Weight: simple body figure
- Speed for jogging and rowing: actual speed in movies or flipping photographs at slow or fast speed / Intensity for weightlifting and stretching: not sure yet about this
- and Foods with equivalent calories: illustrarions (simple line drawing)


(This is NOT what I'm going to use, but just my first attempt.)

And I'm trying to storyboarding now, which will be like as follow.
- Intro: title with images (moving or static) of ALL types of exercise popping up randomly
- Main: zooming in on one image to show details of the exercise, calories and food and zooming out back to the first scene, repeating this 4 times for each type of exercise
- Ending: Back to the first scene, but with images of food overlapping

I'll be filming and/or photographing my friend at the gym over the weekend and also am working on figuring out the main part. More posting will follow!

Sunday, September 14, 2008

the sketches






natural disaster sketches

The visual representations I was looking into were those that represent the 7 different types of disasters:
  • Biological - epidemic and locusts
  • Climatological - extreme temperature
  • Geophysical - volcanoes, earthquakes
  • Hydrological - flood, mass movement water
  • Meteorological - storms
  • Technological - industrial, transport, misc accidents
Below is a quick sketch of some ideas: