Tag: prototyping
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A Modular VR Instructional Design
Upcoming posts will mainly consist of course overviews and the reasoning behind each. Their iterative design has been motivated by having to guide and mentor learners through the choppy, foggy, disorienting and at times nausea-inducing waters of VR productions. Areas covered will include VR production pipelines, VR UX, prototyping, user-testing, and more. I insist that…
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Small Stage Prototyping Lab 3
I had the privilege of co-facilitating a third prototyping workshop with Julie-anne Saroyan presented by Small Stage, this time with the talented dancers from Ballet BC as well as kickass indie choreographers and small stage artistic associates Karissa Barry & Vanessa Goodman (both in Vanessa’s upcoming show) and Dayna Zyndrowskinowski at the Centre for Digital Media in Vancouver this…
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Case Studies: Interactive Digital Media Artifacts
In the past 15 years I have mentored over 35 projects and 205 graduate students on various virtual productions leading to interactive digital prototypes (game, mobile, installation, video and web apps) for real-world clients. Documentation generally consisted of a problem statement, problem(s) to solve, research, executive summary, methods, and applying a user-centered methodology. The documents…
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Dances for a Small Stage
Dances for A Small Stage has been an ongoing collaborator/2004-2016. Dance for a small venue has appeal particularly when it meets the essences of Weimar Cabaret. Small Stage shows have often acted as an incubator for artists to experiment and create work, often technologically challenging in front of a live audience in a more casual…
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Live Music and Songs
The productions below highlight some of my ongoing exploration of integrating live and pre-recorded songs into the design using text from the script and coaching actors to deliver. Many productions I’ve been involved in have demanded some kind of live element and/or live, mixed with recorded. This has been a worthwhile challenge and one of balance,…
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Bard on the Beach
My ongoing work with Bard on the Beach in Vancouver over the years has challenged me to compose music and design sound for a tent. Subwoofers beneath audience members, speakers pointed in all manner of places, inside and outside the tent…actors performing instruments, rhythmic voice and choral work using the text as inspiration. All have…
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Teaching Prototypically
As a teacher, embracing the values of prototyping has meant a solid commitment, understanding and breakdown of its underlying components that I renew through continuing my professional practice. From that practice, I believe that underlying assumptions of prototyping need to be reviewed and re-constructed with learners each time any prototyping process is facilitated. How else…
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Rapid Prototyping Techniques @ the CDM
The videos below represent two different ways that I’ve attempted to capture typical rapid prototyping processes that I’ve facilitated in my Interdisciplinary Improvisation course and in real-world Projects courses at the Master of Digital Media Program in Vancouver. In my first prototype, the photo and video documentation attempt to show more of a collage of…