Class Discussion

Here's an idea of what I'm going to do for the pre-final thing. I go to take pictures with an actor. I draw storyboard to show how the shots will be taken exactly


Once he arrive souq waqif you will be lost in the parking area, the parking is always full and crowded. Inside the souq you will be lost in the restaurant area where it’s hard to find each restaurant, I tried to draw the sence where the actor will be on risk when he would catch any of these ( shysha, heater), and how he would be affected by the surrounded smoke.
Another problem that I found out when I went there for the fourth time, that there is no direction that leads you to the toilet.

In the class discussion I was grouped with hamza and fatma alkharaz to discuss our ideas and to help each other and suggesting more ways to illustrate our problems.
Hamza suggested that I should include actor in my final piece, which he think it works better than the collages. He also suggested playing with the idea of zooming in and out with the jesters to make it more interesting. (Hamzah Abdelal, Mashaer, Fatima Al Kharaz)

I grouped the problems to two categories, safety issues and wrong replacements issues. Where most of the souq problems
I grouped the pictures, to show the images that might express the problem visually


I try to collage the pictures to explain my idea easily, where the first grouping of the pictures.
The idea of the misleading in the souq restaurants, if you go there for the first time its hard for you to know the location of each restaurant, and also the seating area of each restaurant I bleeding over the other, the dividers between the souq seating is not that clear.



I present the shesha’s and the heater idea by zooming in and out on the images, I try to show my idea without using the cast in my scenario.


I overlap the restaurant signs, and simplify the seating by dots to show the seating of the restaurants.

Souq waqif problem

I would like to list the problems that I found them out there:

1- in the restaurant area the chairs are all over the place where you can’t recognize each restaurant chairs where the dividers between the restaurants aren’t that clear.

2- the heaters in the restaurant area are wrong replaced, where they are between the chairs and the spacing are very small gap that can’t more than two people pass between the chairs.

3- an annoying thing about the wrong advertisement is that the ads and the announcements are placed between the chairs.

4-Other problem with the wrong replacements, the shyshas are placed directly behind the seating areas where any slight movement will break them, or it might cuz fire.

5- the place in general, as they allow smoking there it considered to be danger place for one people that might affect their health.

To sum up my problem
Safety problem:
The area where the heater, shyshas are placed is dangerous. They are using the space behind their seating area where the shyshas are placed
Other than this, the shyshas and the heater machines are very danger and should be put in another separate or wider space, unless there is another way to safe.

Wrong replacements problems:
Some of the ads, the restaurant sign, and the restaurant announcements where it don’t show clearly for the people that passing by the place.
The shyshas are also consider to be wrong replacements problem

Souq waqif (restaurant)

As i chose assigned to observe souq waqif. First I went to observe at Thursday 5:00 p.m. so it was non-weekend day, but when i went for the second time at 8:00 pm on saturdy it was really crowded. I have chosen to observe the restaurants road. I have chosen it because it is the most crowded place, that's how my message can be received by many people. My target audience is very general, because this place is visited by all ages, cultures and nationalities.

1- picture was randomly arranged from the souq

2- I tried to narrow down- group- my images to the main catgory

- drawing map of my section

-the new was reprsnted with colors and pens, while the old by wood insted of pens and ink

The outside view of the souq is very traditional and old. This is symbolizing Qatar's heritage. That is the main theme of the souq. When I was walking outside the souq's corridor, I was impressed by the design, but when I walked down the hall way, it was contradicting the theme. It was modern and exaturated more than the reasonable. I felt that they wanted to mix the modern and the old themes but it was not implied correctly. the main theme which is: the New-Old. Then there is sub-four catogaries under this theme( cultures - tradition - active - joy - enjoying ).

So while designing my poster, i narrowed down my theme to be "new-old". Thus, i then cropped my pictures to details which establish the sense of place in souq waqif and also present the place as it is in other way.