group project, mapping ideas

Mapping ideas

We first started by collecting words that represent the experience when playing the gaiss game so the words were
Challenge-tough
Funny- start laughing as a group because it’s difficult to get it right
Traditional
Outdoor
Frustration
Competition
Group aspect- several people share the fun


Then we started analyzing three different words that mostly highlights the meaning or the essence of the game and the experience

Challenge- the more it’s tough the more they want to try playing to reach the level of satisfactory
Traditional- importance, revive, timeless game functional don’t need a lot of stuff simplicity, priceless, role model, familiarity
Funny- laughing at a loser when breaking the rules the fun of picking on someone when losing


Based on that we had the idea of stop motion as a medium because it’s a step by step game and in a sequence we wanted to show challenge but we were falling in the mistake of being too pragmatic our plan was to show a foot and a rock going forward but loosing then needing to go back again to step one to show challenge and difficulty


After seeking advice knowing that a persuasive video could be more targeted to the young children audience whereas the poetic communication is often for older people meaning the parents for such a game we wanted to show difficulty and challenge to the children temping the to try it by showing the struggle of a girl playing and inviting them to try the challenge

We came up with this idea considering our time limitation before that we want to have another concept of a stop motion of the person playing but transitioning to different location from past to future to tell them that it could be played wherever whenever

PHASE 2 PROCESS

2. There is no ventilation there. Sometime is hard to breath there with the big amount of spices in very tiny space.

3. It’s hard to communicated with salesmen. I tried to explain to one of them one kind of herbs that I was looking for but the man didn’t understand me. Because he doesn’t understand any Arabic or English.

4. The tag in the spices shows the prices, but it didn’t tell is it by box or by kilo and it’s hard to tell what kind of spices each one of those because it’s untitled and some of them looks similar and it hard to tell what is it.

PHASE 2 PROCESS

I went to the souq 5 times each time I see things in different angels that’s make me to thing into problems in a different way. Each time I went there I find different problems which I wasn’t aware of.

1. I found there is steps which make it hard for a handycup people to pass it even with normal people. You have to watch out your steps. In side the shop, The place is so narrow it’s hard to walk specially if you have shopping bags. You may easily damaged the spices there by mistake.

Group discussin

In Our discussion group we talked about each one problems. For example I mentioned to Gada one of the problem that I faced a lot in petrol station. Sometime the Gas feeding machine is not working and we have to wait for along time tell someone came and say to go to another line. While that make the station lacking of over load cars. That’s lead the people to go against the line and make a mess. Arwa mentioned to me the problem of untitled spices label. Then we went into each individual problems. (Abdulla, Arwa alsulaiti, Assil Diab, Ghada Al Khater,)

Abdulla, Souq Waqif

Spices Corner

I choose to do the spices corner in SouqWaqif. First I started with the mind map. Then I started to collect the images and categorize it in groups. Then I found out that I don't have enough images. So I went to SouqWaqif again to capture more images. The 4 groups of images was as the following;
1) The enviroment: (hallway, ceiling, floor, walls, lighting, people, logotype and patterns)

2) The colors: The most common colors was the earthy colors plus the gray.

3)The texture: most of the spices or the herbs has a rough or harsh texture, but alot of them they roasted. Then it become soft in a powdery finish.

4) Smells: I separated the smells into groups like flowery, powdery, Intense and oudy.

Most the spices was presented in a pyramid shape. So I consider that in my first design. but after the first critique this concept was weak.