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Adam Connor 4.45
Description:
When it comes to setting the stages upon which individuals build experiences, Designers can look to a number of industries for lessons and inspiration. The film industry, over its long life, has at times both excelled and fallen short of honoring its audience with solid material and engaging stories. Well-made films have shown us that they can drive engagement and interaction. The marketing world has long used this to its advantage. Films succeed in evoking responses and engaging the audiences only when there is a combination of well-written narrative and effective storytelling techniques. It's the film maker's job to put this combination together, and to do so they've developed an extensive set of tools and techniques that allow them to focus (and disrupt) attention, emphasize information, foreshadow and produce the many elements that together comprise a well-told story. We're responsible for creating products that aren't just easy to use, but that people desire to use. Our designs should drive users to want to interact with them. It stands to reason that the methods being used in the film industry to communicate with and engage audiences can also be used in the interaction design space. The purpose of this presentation is to extend the current topic of the use of stories in design and focus on the technical aspects used in film to communicate with audiences. We'll look at some tools used by film makers such as: cinematic patterns, beat sheets, storyboards and editing techniques. We'll consider how, why and when they're used and which aspects of these tools we can make use of as Designers.
Comments on this Talk
Peter Stahl,
12 Feb 06:39 PM
Outstanding material and an important topic. Cinematic experiences are in every IxD's future. We have to start using the techniques discussed here.
Kevin Farner,
13 Feb 08:24 PM
My only comment is that I would love to see this as a longer talk. Really enjoyed it and would love to hear more about it.
bobby jamison,
14 Feb 05:52 PM
You need a presentation slot with more time for this topic.
Jackson Fox,
15 Feb 04:36 PM
I really enjoyed Adam's presentation, and like other commenters think the only real problem was lack of time. I found the discussion of orchestration—and the use of beat sheets—particularly interesting, especially as a method for keeping teams focused on a specific product vision. The discussion of communication was fun—I loved the clips—but I didn't come away with as clear a sense of how these concepts apply to interaction design. For example, I think it's important to think about how to create focus within complex tasks or information spaces. What can we draw from the concept of rack focus to help users navigate these interfaces?
Megan Grocki,
15 Feb 07:15 PM
Great presentation and topic, Adam!
What I loved about this talk was that it was entertaining and I took away things I could try immediately. I can't wait to try using a beat sheet on my next project!
I thought it was one of the most important talks relating to interaction I could think of. I think the word Design gets in the way and so when you just think of interaction your talk, the instillation artist, Jason Bruges, Jimmy Chandler talking about accessibility, as well as Richard Buchanan talking about the triangle of doom were the most important talks in my opinion. You want to think about new innovative ways to draw on interactions? Bring all those concepts together and stop being a print designer. /opinion
Eduardo F Ortiz,
16 Feb 08:00 PM
I loved the presentation. As others stated, I want to see this in a longer format, possibly with some examples worked through - I was left wanting more and enthused about the next iteration.
Great job, Adam!
Amy Quinn,
17 Feb 05:53 PM
Great presentation. I've already been sharing the beat sheet idea with my colleagues.
Livia Labate,
21 Feb 11:01 PM
I really enjoyed this presentation and I know it had an effect on me because it left me wanting much more on the topic. I hope Adam continues to expand on this in future presentations.
Carl Seglem,
28 Feb 08:11 PM
Excellent. Want to hear more.
Last Five Ratings
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Carl Seglem
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Livia Labate
3.94
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Georgette
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Amy Quinn
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Vicente
Thoughful use of film tools that parallel ixd.