Expanding on first chosen places that i combined together to make my first idea.

CINEMA

The idea of movies is that there is a video playing with an audio to go with it. In the beginning before movies were invented it all began with the first photograph. The first photograph was taken in 1826, after that the first recorded sound and sound was a woman singing 'Au Clair Dela Lune' in 1860. In 1878, Eadweard Muybridge created the first 'motion picture' on a farm in California, the fast motion picture was photographs of a horse using a series of 12 stereoscopic cameras. The first celluloid film was shot in 1888 by louis Aime Augustin with a single lens camera, it was called 'Roundhay Garden Scene' and was captured in Yorkshire, Great Britain. In 1894 two men, named Thomas Edison and William Dickson invented two devices that would be used for viewing and producing moving pictures, they're called the kinetoscope and vitascope. 

The earliest film makers were the Lumiere brothers. By 1895 they had invented their own device which they named it "Cinematographic", it was combining camera with printer and projector. The first film to ever be produced and exhibited to the public was created by them, it was called 'Exiting the Factory' made in 1895 and the first moving camera film was called 'Lyon'.

Sound in cinema started in 1926 by Warner Brothers studio and in 1927 they released their first sound movie called 'Jazz Singer'. From the beginning of the 20th century there were attempts at adding colour to films, in 1941, 'technicolour' made a 'big step' with adding colour but the method was expensive and far to complicated. After the 2nd world war during the 60's, the colour films became popular.

http://www.empireonline.com/features/film-studies-101-birth-of-cinema

CAFE

Cafe is one of those words that can be confusing at times in the pronunciation, in definition, cafe is 'a small restaurant selling light meals and drinks', unlike a dinner restaurant where the meals are more of a full meal to end your day a cafe is more of a meeting place with friends or family, meeting someone for the first time for example a job interview or meeting someone online (just an example) or it could be more about having a place to study while eating something light during the day. I am unsure of when a cafe was invented as there are many different types of these places (small restaurants selling light meals and/or drinks). Other common names these days for a cafe is also called a cafeteria or a 'caff' it means the same thing its just a shorter word and easier to say during a sentence. also more names such as bistro (a small, inexpensive restaurant), cybercafe which is another term for internet cafe, a coffee shop which can be found in department store everywhere, also a diner or a snack bar are all similar terms.

ART STUDIO/CRAFT WORK SHOP

A studio is an artists workroom or space where they create or work on projects or creations. They paint, draw, create sculptures and models. Drawings/paintings were started aproximately 40,000 years ago, it was called "rock art" or today its mainly called cave drawings. Cave drawings are found inside caves on the walls and ceilings the purpose for those cave drawings is not known. "The word studio is derived from the Italian studio from latin: studium, from studere, meaning to study or zeal. An art studio can sometimes be called an atelier, especially in earlier eras, "atelier" can also refer to the Atelier Method which is a training method for artists that will usually take place in a professional artist's studio. A lot of the art that is created in a studio is usually visually centred work, in an open environment multiple people working in the same space tend to help and encourage each other. Also a 'craft shop' is not only for creating art but can also be for selling arts and craft supplies. In my opinion an art studio is normally messy with paint stained boards and tables and news paper lying everywhere. 

This weeks idea: #1

This week my idea is a combination of a cafe, an art studio and a cinema. I decided to make the cinema part into a screening for a tutorial or a DIY class on how to create different things or how to draw, basically just a 'how to' kind of class. This is then linked to the art studio idea as the people taking part in this class will be learning from the tutorial and putting it into practice while watching it. On the side of the chairs they will be sitting in is a fold out tray/table, this is for the people to lean their sketch books on while they work. The chairs are cinema quality chars meaning they're comfy and not hard to sit on. The cafe idea is a counter with the food on the shelves and someone operating the till, the cafe is there for when the people taking part in the class want to have a break can go and grab a bite to eat and go back to their chairs or go outside and have a break while they eat. The screen is a TV mounted on the wall at the back of the boat shed and high enough so everyone can see it. Under the TV there is an art supplies table with spare pencils, rubbers, paper, rulers, sharpeners etc you get the point, basically the essentials for drawing or creating something. The lighting is mostly natural lighting from the windows on the side of the boat shed and the roof (sky light) when it gets later in the day and its starts to get darker there are lights that gradually turn on inside as it starts to get darker outside making the change barely noticeable.

Plan, Perspective, section and elevation drawings

My Plan drawing shows a top down view of my boat shed. In this drawing you get a better view of the tray tables on the seats to lean on while drawing. You also get a better view of the items on the art table in the top right hand corner and whats on top of the counter of the cafe on the left hand side. you can see where the door is and which way they open out you can also see where the window in because it sticks out from the wall and where frames for photos are because they come out from the wall.

In these Section drawings i drew 3 different angles showing the left side the right side then looking from the front of the shed towards the back. you can see the different levels as you move down. you can see on top of the roof the glass opening letting in natural light.

In this perspective drawing you can see the door gap and the lines on the walls show them getting further way as the ends of the walls get closer to the back of the shed.

In my elevation drawing i looked at the boat shed from the outside  looking in. You can see the doors when they're closed and again when they're open, when they're open you can see the chairs and the screen as you would would in and the window, cafe and art supply table are all hidden by the side of the walls.

video walk through boat sheds

 i used both images and video to show movement around the boat sheds and to show me walking past them. i used an overlay to show both my legs walking and what my eyes are seeing. Also in the images there are people moving past the sheds.

model

My attempt at making a model boat shed out of paper and card. I added the types of doors i want for my boat shed and the screen plus the chairs that would go inside. Unfortunately i didn't think about putting things inside the model until after i put the roof on making it really difficult to add more to the inside of the shed giving it less detail inside.

collage

A different approach to making a collage of the boat sheds making different parts bigger and more noticeable.

Overlaying images

 In these two attempts I used an overlay of the inside of the boat shed to show an x-ray of whats behind the doors. i added in a stair case to explore what i wanted to be inside the boat shed but decided i didn't like it as much and could test it out later with more collages.

 

In this image i overlaid the inside of the boat shed to see inside again, I then added the bar counter top and the bar stools to explore an idea of what i could put inside my boat shed design.

INSPIRATION for my meeting places!!

 Art/craft studio inspiration- In these images I like the natural light coming in through the windows or open doors. I like the wood on the floors matching the tables and the beams across the roof. 

Bar inspiration- I like the darker tones, I like the wood effect again but the darker shade of the wood matches the place better. Has a rich colour. I like the height of the bar and the tall bar stools and the glasses hanging from the roof and the wine rack behind the bar.

Cafe inspiration- Again in these images I like the natural lighting or the lights that make it look natural, I like the busy clustered look and how the shelves are full with some kind of pastry or other type of food. I like how the walls are covered in posters or chalk boards with menus or little notes to read while standing in line. The space seems safe and comfy and home like, easy to relax in and a place to keep coming back and feel the same all over again.

Cinema/Theatre Inspiration - I like the warm colours in most of the images, the light orange tones coming from the switch lights gives the space a warm feel. I like the idea of having a screen (not the main screen with the movie) with lights behind it that can change the feel of the whole room depending on what colour is showing. I like the lights on the columns on the walls and the lights coming from the roof in the bottom right corner. 

First collages of boat sheds.

Both views from the middle (where the stairs are) looking down the path.

Collage of photos taken in week 1 Tuesday

Photos taken from different angles and distances, Images of the surroundings and the vibe of the area.

book work, week 2: conventions

My note taking from Mondays class.

Plan,sections,elevation and perspective.

We practiced plan drawing first then sections then elevation learning about what each of them are and we were shown examples of each of them including perspective.

In this plan sketch we were told that the top of the room was "cut off" and we had to draw from a birds eye view, starting with the bigger objects then moving into detail. In this exercise we passed our books down the table and drew in somebody else's book combining our individual sketch styles.We learnt how to shows doors and which way they open and where to add thickness to walls and thin lines where a window would be. 

This one we had to draw our bedroom, this one was more personal than the first one because the detail was different as it was our own space with our own belongings. I made the walls thicker in this sketch and the windows light. I could have added more detail at the time.

This sketch was a section sketch. Instead of the roof being cut off it was the wall, we drew the room from a side on view making the concrete floor and roof darker and thicker, drawing the people was difficult as we had to add detail but not forget to leave enough room for the rest of the people down the table. This exercise we also passed our books down the table, one of the people that had my book used a blue pen, this showed me that persons individual contribution to my sketch and what the thought they could add to it and what they thought was important to add which was good for me to see. 

This one I didn't understand as fast as the other two but i caught on near the end of the exercise. it was harder to draw without a table to lean on (I'll blame my bad drawing on that...) basically what i got from this was that we were drawing exactly what we saw in front of us as a 2D image

Book work, week 1

class brainstorm of what Atea is and different types of meetings, not just with people or living things but with material objects as well eg. pen to paper.

These were meeting places that the class came up with together and our own groups came up with.

These were our groups break down of whats needed at certain types of meeting places, we listed the obvious things that would be needed then got further into it and thought out side the box.

These were my individual descriptions of what I saw and thought of when looking at the boat sheds.

Our small groups ideas on different types of meeting places and what could go into out boat sheds, we talked about multiple meetings and had to minimise it down to five meeting places.

This is the start of my brainstorming of my five chosen meeting places, i did small rough sketches of what i was describing and how i wanted the main parts of my design look like and where i wanted them to be positioned.

Library Photos

These images i collected from three different library books after our first class in week one, to me each of these images shows a type of meeting or a meeting place. In some of these images the people in them already know each other or could be meeting new people.In some of these images there are different feelings, such as happiness sadness anger etc theres celebration and fighting, dancing and formal aspects.

Photos i took at sites

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