call with group mates + my idea

 Had a group meeting with Han and Shamita today. We decided to go with 'the running our of drinking water' as our case. We researched into some data of the issue and found out that by 2040, there will be an extinct in drinking water. 

Shamita suggested to emphasise on how people can actually put effort in alleviating the issue, instead of delivering the concept of counting down the day we run our of drinking water. She suggested that we can make something interactive and responsive so that when audience use the design, they can change the outcome, instead of limiting the design outcome with something like a counting down clock. This is to deliver the idea of when people from all around the world take action in helping, the situation can actually become better, or at least slow the pace of water running out. 

For me, my idea is quite an opposite to Shamita's idea, in delivering. Hers is more on doing some inforgraphcis and delivering messages and data using heavily research based information. However, I came up with something really abstract by using only videography and sounds. The first idea that came up into my mind was those minimal Japanese ASMR cooking videos. They usually have a clear background with only the bowl/ the cup in the foreground. and for the background music, only the sounds of cooking could be heard. 

concept: sounds of water dripping repressing the clock ticking, the counting down on the day when drinking water runs out. 

When applied to our topic, I visualised a still video of a broken glass of water leaking, with sounds of clock ticking or water dripping as the background sounds. A logo will also be designed as an overlay in the centre of the video. The whole video would be really clean and minimal, and emphasise on how we create that threatening atmosphere with the audio and sounds. Visually, it looks really calm, but when you turn the sound on, it is threatening. 

This was how I picture the whole concept when we first came up with the topic of the running out of drinking water. The idea is very different from Shamita's. Therefore, we decided to do some research and experiments on our own separately and call again tomorrow to show what we got and maybe come up with the final execution so that we can finished everything off by Thursday.