Final version of Artefact 2

Artefact 2:

Evaluation:

Artefact 2

The aim of this artefact is to create a night time scene by exploring lighting and focal points. I gathered my research and decided to experiment with lighting coming through the window, as many night time bedroom scenes are focused around the window.

The first thing I did was that I turned off all the lighting in my environment and used a photometric light outside the bedroom so that it would shine inside the room. I wanted that to be the only light source that my room would have. This is because many of the images that I have seen of night time scenes; this would be the only source. I had to ensure that I placed the light in the correct position so that the shadows would fall in the perfect position. I wanted the light to create a focal point onto the bed, where the viewer’s eyes would instantly be attracted to. The focal point on this image is the bed and the records on the bed.

Once I created the images I showed my focus group and they suggested that I create a moonlight version by adding a blue tint to the light. I had done this by changing the colour of the light to blue. I created 3 different versions of blue light scenes and created a questionnaire to see which one people preferred and thought that portrayed a realistic night time scene alongside my original. The results showed that people preferred my original version despite the colour theories of blue moonlight.

Image I presented for my questionnaire:

The questionnaire that I sent out to people on the multimedia course. This gave me the opportunity to see other peoples opinions and any improvements or changes that they suggest:

The results of my questionnaires that I sent out. The results showed that people preferred the original version of the night time scene despite the moonlight colour theory Brooker talks about "As the moon is a neutral gray colour, the light that it reflects towards us is actually exactly the same colour as the suns light, which might seem a little odd at first, as we’re used to seeing the moon with a blue tint. However our perception of the moons light as blue comes from the way in which the rods in our eyes adapt to low light situations"

Final version of Artefact 1

Artefact 1

Evaluation: 

For my first artefact I created a bedroom. Before I started anything I researched into bedrooms by searching online and observing real life of today and wanted to incorporate something different into my design. When researching I came across lighting panels in bedrooms and decided to put this into my design. When creating this artefact I looked at the usual things that you would find in a bedroom such as beds, desks, and computers and then modelled them.

As this artefact was focusing on lighting/key lighting I had to make sure that this was perfect. I created the lighting setup in this room by using 1 main key light and then 9 fill lights and to soften the main lights and one back light which were in the lighting panel. Once I created this artefact and presented it in front of my focus group made up of virtual environment students many of them didn’t like the lighting panel and thought the bedroom would look better with normal lights. I then thought about these comments made and decided to change the lighting and get rid of the light panel. As I did this I placed another main light to replace the lighting panel and placed a canvas where the panel was to give the bedroom more life and character. Another comment I received was to fill up the room more. I did this by adding a chair into the bedroom along with a dustbin.

I didn’t want to over fill the bedroom and distract the user from the main point of the artefact which is the lighting. I created this artefact to also build the foundation for the rest of my artefacts as I want to try different experiments in this bedroom and find various results.