Exercise: Build a Robot

Build a Robot

Assignment: For this assignment, we had to construct a robot out of everyday household objects. Once we have chosen the objects, we then draw out how we construct the robot. Then the directions are given to a friend to build in less than ten minutes.

Items: Exacto knife, tape, scissors, 1 water bottle, 2 toilet paper rolls, 2 note cards, 1 pencil, and 1 poof ball

Building of Robot

Steps:

• Take the plastic bottle and use Exacto knife to make holes in the bottle without damaging its shape.
• Take the toilet paper rolls and measure 1/3^rd of the way down the tube. Cut along dashed lines and use Exacto knife to cut a whole in between the two cuts.
• Then take the two note cards and fold at lines and tape shut.
• Push pencil through bottom holes on bottle.
• Cut the note card box on dotted lines to create a tab and fold outward.
• Push tabs of the note card box into top holes on bottle. This creates the arms.
• Stick pencil ends into the e hole on each toilet paper roll, create legs of the robot.
• With tape, stick poof ball on lid of bottle.

My roommate seemed to have fun building it. It didn’t take her to long to build the robot. I think the only thing that was challenging for her, was to stick the note card arms into the inserts on the bottle.

Robot

Exercise: Storybook

Assignment: I had to take 30 minutes to sit in a public place and watch and listen to my environment without talking to anyone or having no access to any electronics and then jot down my experience. Then, I had to take those ideas and try to come up with a story for an audience ranging from three to seven-year-olds. I then had to take seven minutes to create a 10-12 panel storyboard. I also need to try and come up with a plot, explain the story through sketches, and try and find a moral to the story.

Info from my notes: The people around me were talking of the costumes that they were thinking about wearing for Halloween and favorite books.

Plot: A young boy who loves to read is sucked inside a magically book and learns to befriend its unique inhabitants.

Moral: Kindness is important and it can affect the lives of everyone around you.

Story: The beginning of the story will have a sickly boy name William, who could not sleep, wandering the library of his family’s mansion. Since the boy is always sick, his only escape is reading, so whenever he can, he engulfs himself in a book. While wander the library that night, he runs across a large book that is flipped open and radiating light. As he nears, he sees words lifts off its pages, which then surround him and pull him through a portal into the book. Once he begins to adventure the world, he sees all kinds of interesting creatures; knights, dragons, fairies, giants, tiny giraffes and other animals, and flowers as tall as trees and trees as tall as a blade of grass. He then befriends a fairy named Lily and her faithful friend, a tiny giraffe named Geoffrey. As the story progresses, the fairy gets William to hide from the creatures that evoke fear in all of the inhabitants of the land. There, he saw Vlad the Vampire King, leading his servants: witches, werewolves, skeletons, ghosts, jack-o-lantern men, and vampire bats.  William asked Lily and Geoffrey why Vlad the Vampire King and his minions were feared, and she said they were terrifying everyone.  William ended up discovering that Vlad and his minions were actually really kind and only wanted to become friends with the inhabitants of the strange world.  When William explained this, Vlad and his minions befriended William, Lily, and Geoffrey, and things soon changed for the better. Before going home, William promised them that he would visit again real soon. The End.

So, this was challenging for me, I have a hard time coming up with ideas for children’s books. But it was fun anyway. The challenge is good though, and this is a good way to come up with creative ideas.

Exercise: Poster design

Final Poster Design

Assignment: My assignment, was to take 60 minutes to come up with an idea for a poster incorporating: Sleep: It’s What You Need. From my sketches, I then had to draw out the poster while using text you normally don’t use. (When I use text, it is usually very fluid. I don’t like rough plain text. I’ve always been that way.)

Sketches for Poster

Sketches: The first sketch that I came up with was of a girl who feel asleep in the middle of studding for her exam. The second was of a person sleeping. The next showed one student sleeping in class while another wasn’t. The fourth is of a kid who got an ‘A’ on a test and another kid who got an ‘F’ cause he fell asleep in the middle of the test. The last sketch, and the one that I turned into a poster, is a zombie with the words, “Don’t be a zombie! Sleep: It’s What You Need!”

Poster: When I first got this assignment, I came up with the idea to create a zombie since Halloween is a week away. I also think that zombies are good at representing people. (We are lazy and don’t really want to do anything and we don’t get enough sleep which then makes us constantly complain.) So I figured that this would be a good way to explain that we need more sleep than what we get.

I also have never drawn a zombie before, so it was a slight challenge. The coloring is also strange to me. To get the zombie coloring, I used light green, black, purple, blue, red, and white. (The white helped blend the colors and pale the zombie’s skin tone. I also inked it and thickened some lines just to give variance.

In Class Exercise: Create Theme and Concept

Annual Report Design Idea: Invisible Children

Exercise: The other day in class, we had to create an idea for a theme and concept behind an Annual Report. As a class, we had to think of three different, completely unrelated things from the categories: Animals, Places, and Nonprofit Organization. For each category, we had to come up with the first thing that came to mind, and then as a class, we would choose one for each.

What we choose:

Animal: Giraffe

Place: Venice

Nonprofit Organization: Invisible Children

What to do: We had to come up with the theme and concept for an annual report representing Invisible Children and incorporating giraffes and Venice. So the first thing we did was to brainstorm for ideas in how we could connect the three. Then the class split into groups and among our group, we would pass our ideas one to all the other people in the group so they could expand on our ideas while I added to theirs’. Then we came together after ten minutes, and took out any repeating ideas. The we went through and choose the best concept. For the best concept, we then designed an image for the cover of the Annual Report.

My Brainstorming Among Group

Finished Image

The final drawing ended up being a boy dressed in military garb peering into water and see a reflection of a little boy holding toys. We wanted to emphasize how these children are affected.

This exercise was a little challenging because we had to find a way to work with each others differing ideas, but then again that is what made this in-class exercise fun. It was good experience and it helped us become more creative.