*Test Runs*

 

The “Imagine” part of the Design Thinking Model came into play when I was brainstorming ideas of how I would use what objects I had; what I would make them do and how I would use them together. I prototyped by experimenting with how to make the objects move in a way that referenced reality. I also tried to create relations between the objects in later videos. For example, color influenced my choices a bit, particularly with putting the blue pig on the blue sponge to make it feel like they go together, and it was that way sort of for the dog with the yellow eyes and the yellow squirrel (although I had already previously put him on top of the dog’s head when they resided on my desk because I thought it looked goofy and cute).

I iterated by repeating my ideas in more than one trial video attempts until it felt right, making changes along the way to add to the feel and visual effect I was going for.

In evaluating and sharing my work I better understood how design thinking came into play and I paid more attention to why I made certain decisions along the way, such as redoing the gif to make the dog’s movements go from side to side rather than just hopping forward so as to mimic reality better, or finding a way to slowly move the camera towards the off-camera sponge as the pig waddled toward it to better imply movement.

This could be used in an art classroom in a lesson involving the experiment of recording students’ process/progress in creating a work. For example, students could take a picture of their work every 10-30 mins (more or less depending on how long the piece takes to finish) they work on a piece, for the day(s) or week(s) they spend working on it, and then use this app to put it all together and have a visual documentation of their process (an artwork of their artwork). This connected to my prior knowledge and experience of art education in that it was a process that changed over time and evolved as I progressed working on it and tweaking it, much like other works go. It also consisted of materials (the objects and my phone) just like any other art medium does.

*As a side note, when I went back to edit my response into this blog post, my gfs had disappeared, in their place just little image file icons that did nothing when I clicked on them. Not sure why this happened, but I just deleted them and then copy and pasted my gifs back in and now they seem to be fine. Hope it stays that way!