Entertainment Design
ArtCenter College of Design
Alisha Gao - Second Variety - Philip K. Dick
Production Design Spring 2023
Prep for Week 1 - Monday Class
Video intro for Monday’s class
Greetings! We hope you all had a wonderful and restful summer break. Now that the new term has started, we are ready to get to work. Production Design is a term-long group project class and there is a lot to do so we are going to ask you all to prepare a few things for us to get the ball rolling. Your instructors will be using the first class to introduce and get to know each of you, create groups based on specific criteria, and assign stories for each group to develop. By the start of class next week, we expect you to have the following ready to submit.
-2 to 3 images of what you believe is your strongest and most representative work
-Personal Detail Sheet stating your Term, Favorite Genre, Area of Strength and Interest, Property that represents you best. Find the Personal detail sheet template in the resource links to the right.
Since we had a holiday week 1 for Monday’s class, We are asking you to read the 4 stories you may or may not be working on. You can find those below in the right hand column.
Click on the link that leads to your class bluescape workspace and request access. We will be using this platform for classroom crit. If you haven’t used it before, it has a bit of promise that I’m hoping translates well for our needs.
We will be going over administrative logistics in class but feel free to take a look at the rest of the resources on the right (e.g. syllabus, goals, grading rubric, accountability worksheet). Also, we’ve created a contact sheet with your default ArtCenter email. We will be corresponding with you through that email so make sure you check on it often. Join the discord channel as we will be using it to keep up communication throughout the term.
Potential Stories
We will be assigning stories to each group before the end of class, week 1. While we reserve the right to assign stories as we see fit, we do take preference into consideration. For you to have a preference you have to know the stories. The following are the stories we will be developing this term (and we may have a few more on week 1), so take this week to read the stories and start thinking about which ones you’d like to work on.
Group Selection Poll
Once you’ve had a chance to read or listen to the stories, please answer this poll to help us determine groups. Note that your instructors have the final say in what group and story you will be working on but we do take preference into consideration.