Comments on: Digital Artefact completed

By: silvanad

silvanad — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:27:11 +0000

Hi Henry, I like your attempt at classifying different types of robots. I wasn’t aware of the range of robots besides the scary or funny types. And I agree, the violin playing robot was the best!

By: sian

sian — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:07:02 +0000

Henry I really enjoyed this, I thought the first section captured the poignancy of the robot that came up during the film festival really well. I thought the attempt to come up with a loose taxonomy for robots was interesting too, though I wonder whether you needed to spell this out textually at the beginning – another approach might have been to let the images and (terrific) soundtrack do it themselves. BTW, anyone watching this hang on for the bit after the credits – the ‘land of hope and glory’ robot is the best of all!

By: tracy

tracy — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:45:57 +0000

Cool video Henry. The part I enjoyed most was the toy robots and the kids (or childlike) pictures. I think we still haven’t managed to capture that potential of our childlike imaginations in a real robot yet. But then I actually just want Optimus Prime to be real – I want big kick-ass robots that can tranform into cool vehicles, oh yes.

By: Sarah Payne

Sarah Payne — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:34:00 +0000

Very professional looking result Henry! I know what you mean about the fear factor in using the new technology. It was harder to decide on a medium to use for my artefact than it was to master photoshop (which I managed with the help of some truely excellent online tutorials).
I am glad that I watched the video before reading the notes because I think it may have detracted from the visual message if I had done it the other way around.