Introduction to Eat Right: Why is it so complicated to buy food?

Eat Right: Why is it so complicated to buy food? from Rachel Cockburn on Vimeo.

Degree show details!

Come and see me and my final year work here:

F Block B3 & B4
Hanbury Street
Old Truman Brewery
91 Brick Lane
London E1 6QL

Friday 4th June - Monday 7th June, 10am-7pm every day

Click on the links below to find details of the Goldsmiths Degree Show 'Curious' - which is part of Free Range:

Free Range details and address

If you would like to attend the private view on Thursday 3rd June, please email me with your address so that I can send you an invitation.

Nub experiment 1

nub experiment from Rachel Cockburn on Vimeo.

I spent yesterday working on this - the first 14 seconds of a nub to explain my project. Today, I was working all day on my presentation for the assessment - the first rehearsal is on Friday, and I want to be as ready as possible so that I can get some good feedback.

Nub research

Also a good example is this: dropbox.com

Cooking Workshop Scenario films

Cooking workshop: teacher from Rachel Cockburn on Vimeo.

Cooking Workshop: Participant from Rachel Cockburn on Vimeo.

Scenario film process

Video process 1: Teacher workshop scenario from Rachel Cockburn on Vimeo.

Lastnight I took more photos to make a scenario film. I've been working on these today in Premiere - above is a completely unfinished version of the video - so you can see the process. It shows a user logging in to eat right, submitting a recipe, choosing to teach it, then receiving a phonecall from a member of eat right staff. The next scene shows her sharing the recipe with two members of her local community.

Yesterday I had a brilliant visit to see Loop.pH, who I worked for last summer. They gave me helpful advice about the presentation of my project that I intend to act on soon. I left the studio feeling very inspired! Thank you!

Mapped local shopping list

I spent this morning preparing for my assessment, and then making a plan to help me get at least two scenario films finished by 11th May. Then I started working on the printable shopping list and local map that would be accessible from the meal plan section of the website. This is used in the scenario film - the user prints out the map & list, then takes it with them as they shop.

I started by making the orange colour paler, so the map was more printer-friendly.

Then I highlighted the recommended route. I spent ages making 29 images showing a figure moving around the route - but then I realised that I needed to do this once the whole printout was made - see below!
Once I had completed the printer-friendly map & shopping list, I gradually built up a sequence of over 60 images, which will be used in the scenario film to show a user doing their shopping locally to fit their personalised meal plan.

As you can see, as the sequence develops, all the items are crossed off the shopping list.

I also made some refinements to the real-life photo sequences of a user going into each shop on the route, so they are now ready to turn into a film. This work also becomes part of the website.

Refinement & missing pages

Between the image above and the one below, I have changed the 'more people' buttons, handwritten the recipe names, and highlighted the current section of the website. These seems like tiny changes, but they make a massive difference.

I've also refined the text for some areas of the website. Below you can see I've made slider bars for some pages.

Over the last couple of days I have also been creating new pages that were missing before, like the one below. This takes longer than I anticipated - even though I have already decided on a general colour scheme and layout, new content means having to re-think the whole page again.

I have also had to extend the map I had already designed, to include a farmer's market and a community allotment.

This web work is frustrating - I have already designed over 40 separate pages, and spent two days more than I planned to on this.

I need to get on with other parts of the project, so I'm going to spend Tuesday, Thursday and Friday working on the scenario films that I need to complete - showing how the cooking workshop would work. On Thursday I have another tutorial, so I'll use that time to make a plan for what I can realistically complete for assessment. It is really hard at this point to stand back and look at what I've done, to work out if it has the intended effect!