Xperiencegenerator: Heayoun

EXPERIENCE GENERATOR

This studio class was to understand the home through variety experiences and to make creative documents such as models, videos, lighting and sound design related with the home.

Brief 1 : EXPERIENCING THE HOME

There are many meanings about the home. Here is listed some words about thought home in our mind.

- Words related with the home (what is the home?)

1. Home = Family

2. Comfortable

3. Shelter and Safe

4. Having specific smells

5. Memory

6. Routines

7. Warm and The yellow color

Exercise 1 : Experiencing / Observing / Documenting your home

The first exercise was observation about the current home and the home was contrasted with different country home such as Australia and Korea. So it was involved photos, sketch and drawings for creating a model of two rooms in the home as using a scale 1:10. This model was completed for several weeks.

Exercise 2/3 : Simple experiences / Experience and time (video exercises)

The exercise 2 was a first creative video, this subject was making tea. People are almost drinking some teas every day but the making tea was not easy for the creative film because of camera angles. So this activity was for learning of camera angles which place is better for good angle and recoding.

Making Tea (Honey Plum Tea with Rice Cake)

As the exercise 3 was the different way of making films, it was used still photography for stop motion animation and added some sound in it. The bottle cups in the kitchen were used for the video and these are arranged side by side. As well, many photos needed for one short animation and the Do-Re-Mi song was added its film.

Short Stop Animation (Do-Re-Mi Song)

Exercise 4 : Real and Unreal (Model and video exercise)

This activity was contrasted both real space and the model. My bedroom had selected to making the model. The model was made not only room but also created furniture in my room such as desks, a bookshelf, beds and drawers. The cardboard, white board and papers, clay and clear plastic panels were use in it. Also, two films were put on one screen for contrast both the real space and the model in a video.

Real and Unreal still cuts in the video

Real and Unreal

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Brief 1 Pictures

Brief 2 : IMMERSIVE ENVIRONMENTS

The brief 2 was exercises of the lighting and sound design by our strong emotion and some ideas in the real and unreal spaces. It was also to find out shadows, reflectance, colors, direction, pattern, etc. Three videos were created through variety activities.

Exercise 5 : Lighting Design

Firstly, this lighting design was to explore a day-time and night time lighting state in real and model space. It was to learn about diverse situation of lighting how it shows on surfaces of spaces such as with shadows, color and reflections. So I tried to use interesting materials like the net ball and fabrics for looking shadows of these shadows.

Video still cuts of the lighting exercise

Material pictures

Exercise 6 : Sound Design

The sound exercise was works that add the sound of the other two in the same video. Also it was to learn using sound programs like Audactity and SoundBooth. By the materials of the lighting exercise, I had decided what sounds are matched with the images. These were used the universe and sea sounds because of the presented shadows of materials on the wall. The patterns of material were similar with the lighting of planets and reflected light on the sea.

Sound A & B (The universe & In the deep sea)

After discussing about the sound exercise at week 6, I had created one more video. I also made a story that is visit of the UFO in my room.

Sound C ( A Story : Visit of the UFO in my room)

Exercise 7 : Immersive Environments

This video exercise was to create an immersive environment in my room through the exercise 5 and 6. I had chosen CDs and the aim was to show reflection of the color that is rainbow color but my guess was wrong. This material showed entirely different reflections. These were like some cells or eyes of aliens.

Material pictures

Immersive environment (CD)

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Brief 2 Pictures

Brief 3 : MAJOR PROJECT(CHILDHOOD HOME)

The subject was about the childhood home. Through brief 1 and 2 exercises that are making modeling, videos, lighting and sound designs, I decided brief 3 to represent my childhood home in the memory. It is divided to three parts to express different situations. This is a personal experience and related with feeling and memories of the house and around the environment.

Memory 1

The first memory is the situations seen through the opaque window and the security grille of the house. The front of my apartment was acacia tresses. These were very tall and I could smell the fragrance of sweet acacia flowers in the summer. I used to hear the sound of cicadas for this season. Also, there is a low wood bench and anybody could sit. My neighbors and I used to play game or reading books on the bench. Sometimes, the truck sellers and tofu sellers visited the apartment. When they came here, they used the loudspeaker and bell.

Memory Images 1

Memory 2

Second memory is the same place with the first thing. In the summer, the neighbor and my home used to open each door for natural air instead of air conditioner. So I could listen neighbor’s voices, TV sound and even snore. As well, the red lighting turned in the early morning. This lighting was the fire alarm’s lighting. It caused the different feeling between the day and at night. I used small light bulb for expressing red lighting of the fire alarm and covered it by a cello sheet.

Memory Images 2

Memory 3

The last document is another house’s memory. Before I went to secondary school, I lived this house that was two levels. My neighbors and my parents cultivated grapes and gourds at the small garden in front of the house. So my friends and I used to play here. One day I got stung face by bees on my face and the face was swollen. For representing the grapes, gourds and leaves, I used the white and brown clay and artificial leaves.