DVD Packaging

I have made a cover and CD face for Removing Richardson. What do you guys think?

Car Stacking and Parking Solutions

I was talking to a friend who works as a city planner about our project and he mentioned "car stackers". A "car stacker" could be the planned replacement for the Richardson building. He would be happy to be interviewed about resource consent or "car stackers" if we needed some footage.

For more information: http://www.carstackers.co.nz/

Bob Dylan

Hi everyone

Was just listening to Bob Dylan and I thought that some of his songs might suit our mocko... My favourite is It's all over now, baby blue. Very cool...keep in mind it would be very quietly played underneath the voice over... let me know your thoughts or if you had different ideas about the sound of the underlying soundtrack...



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20/20 video

Possible proposal cover

Libby and I have been working on the Proposal today. Here is a possible cover image:

Photo by Libby!

Rough Storyboard

Broken Down into 12 Main Scenes

Scene 1
Photo: Busy Richardson
Description: Open with a time lapse shot of the Richardson building to convey how busy and well used the building is, with a voice over introducing/describing the building and its uses.
Camera Angle: Either a medium shot right in front of the door or a wider view of the building, best convey how busy the building is.

Scene 2
Photo: Either the plan from the exhibition or map to show where it sits in Uni
Description: Continued voice over but now of the History of the building.
Camera Angle: Straight on, montage of historical/relevant photographs

Scene 3
Photo: Another building Ted McCoy has worked on, maybe Archway
Description: Voice over will introduce the architect and mention some of his other work.
Camera Angle: Different shots of other buildings by Ted McCoy. (Key burns effect? Pans? Zooms?)

Scene 4
Photo: Ted McCoy
Description: Interview with Ted McCoy talking about the building, his early ideas etc. Only a short segment of him at this point.
Camera Angle: Close up of Ted, slightly off centre

Scene 5
Photo: DCC Demolition Papers?
Description: Voice over or architecture manager proposing to knock down the building. (No talk of car park building yet) What is going to happen to the departments etc inside.
Camera Angle: Either or both of, Demolition papers with certain important areas highlighted then typed clearly on screen and/or close up of architect manger talking.

Scene 6
Photo: Ted McCoy
Description: Ted McCoy's opinion on the building (should/shouldn't be knocked down), discus problems with the building (Concrete Cancer, bad reception...)
Camera Angle: Close up off Ted McCoy slightly off centre (same as scene 4)

Scene 7
Photo: Cell phone person
Description: Interview. Cell phone geek complaining about bad reception due to the Richardson Building.
Camera Angle: Close up

Scene 8
Photo: Gavin O'Brian
Description: Interview with someone who loves the building and is opposed to it being knocked down.
Camera Angle: Close up, head and shoulders

Scene 9
Photo: Vector Image of Car Park (for the storyboard we can use a photo of a car park in town.)
Description: Propose the new building. It's going to be a car park due to the car parking problems around the University and the central location of the Richardson building is a perfect solution.
Camera Angle: Hopefully export a movie from Vector works showing a pan around the proposed Car park Building.

Scene 10
Photo: Chris Doudney
Description: Interview with Chris Doudney who is pro the car park building and anti Richardson.
Camera Angle: Close up, head and shoulders

Scene 11
Photo: Protests
Description: Students protesting knocking down the Richardson Building for a car park. Have someone chained to the building, people with signs yelling, people with hard hats, and maybe Campus watch if they agree to it. Also interviews with people in and spectating the protest, interview with campus watch.
Camera Angle: Wide shots of protest, use zoom from protest scene to focus on the person chained to the building. Close up shots for interviews.

Scene 12
Photo: Black Screen white writing.
Description: "DEMOLITION DATE NOVEMBER 18 2008" finish with and open ending, people may believe the building is going to be turned into a car park building, arrr psych

A History of the Richardson Building

Built in 1979 the Richardson building stands tall in the heart of Otago University. The building was designed by prominent New Zealand architect, Ted McCoy who has also worked several other buildings around Dunedin including Archway lecture theatre, New World Supermarket and even worked on St Pauls Cathedral among many others.
The height of the building is to maximise the use of the site as it is very hard and expensive to acquire land in the area. The angular lines covering the building are intended to direct the rain and prevent damage. Externally the building is totally concrete which unfortunately, in later years, got 'concrete cancer' leading to falling concrete. The 'concrete cancer' came at a large cost to the university taking four years to fix, yet at the same time some students made the most of the situation and even used it as an excuse to delay assignments. ("I got concrete in my eye.")
The building is named after Sir John Larkin Cheese Richardson who was an early vice chancellor of the University. Sir Richardson devoted his money to found the "Richardson Scholarship" made available to students attending Otago University. But the building was not always called 'The Richardson', when it was built in 1979, it was named the 'Hocken' building and housed a large historical collection of archives and photographs, which has since moved to Anzac Avenue to alleviate pressure on space.
Today the Richardson Building houses several departments as well as computer labs, lecture rooms and the Law library. It is an essential part of the University and many problems would arise without it.

20/20 shot breakdown

Hay shot breakdowns are horrible and highly time consuming but here is some good examples of how we need to break up/interlace/prepare/edit our shots... Hope it helps... also here is the original clip from Youtube if it helps you to understand my breakdown.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utpam0IGYac

Storyboarding

https://design.otago.ac.nz/groups/desi227/wiki/637c4/Pre_Viz.html

The link above should take you to the 227 wiki which has the story-board PDF's.(alternatively copy and paste into your address bar)

Here are some really useful PDF's about story-boarding techniques. I have been analyzing some current affair stories like 20/20 and 60 minutes to see how they narrate/tell a story through different camera angles, shot lengths and filmic techniques. I will prepare a detailed analysis of this and post it so we can elaborate on our preliminary storyboards.

So Much Stuff

The Richardson building houses several department as well as lecture rooms, 3 computer labs & even a library.

Departments included are:
Otago Archaeological Laboratories
-are an extensive complex on the ground & first floors
Law
-The law library can be found on floors 7-9
Department of Geography
Department of Anthropology, Gender & Sociology
Department of Media, Film & Communication
-Communication Studies
-Film & Media Studies
-Visual Culture

Many of these departments will be scattered around the University where available places are being made but unfortunately the department of Media, Film & Communication will be dropped.

'Concrete Cancer'

After four long years of tender care from the hands of an army of builders, the Hocken/Richardson building has finally reached the end of a $1.4 million makeover. 
The official reason given for the 27-year-old building’s facelift is that it had been suffering a bout of “concrete cancer.” Because the interface between the building’s concrete flesh and steel bones was not properly sealed when it was first built, its bones had been expanding with rust for some years, splitting fist-sized chunks of flesh from its outer walls, much to the peril of Otago’s law students. Now that the last of the work is complete, the Richardson looks to remain concretely stable for years to come.

The scaffolding on the Richardson Building is not a permanent feature! After more than four years of painstaking work, the building's "concrete cancer" has been completely cured. Check out the real face of Richardson below.

A Southern Architecture: The Work of Ted Mccoy

I went down to the Hocken Library today to read "A Southern Architecture: The Work of Ted McCoy". It had a few pages (131-137) on the Richardson Building which will be helpful for the history section of our documentary.

Ted McCoy Exhibition

Today we went along to the Ted McCoy exhibition at the Otago Museum. It is free and runs until Sunday 12 October.

It featured a board about the Richardson Building, the architectural plans for the building and lots of useful information about the man himself.