Working With Sustainability Man

Earlier on in the semester me and Sam Bartlett did a bit of thinking about a character we could use to get the message of sustainability across at UC. Sam had already thought up the idea of Sustainability Man and we threw a few ideas back and forth about the media platforms we could use and different aspects of his character and background. This was before we had the in class exercise to come up with our own characters and for some reason I decided to go solo with MC Sustain, while Sam continued on with Sustainability Man. One of the platforms we had discussed was using Motion to create some animations which we could then upload onto You tube. Sam had already created an episode for his character and invited my character to make an appearance as a waste fighting accomplice in episode two.



Sam did all the animation but I made worked with him to record the audio and came up with the beats for this episode.

More Poster Action

Did another poster today. I styled it like it's a Hip Hop gig poster but used the text to get some of MC Sustain's message across. I like this better than my last one. I think it's eye catching enough to get people to want to have a closer look but then surprise by containing a message instead of just gig details.

The message might be a little bit blunt but I think it's effective.

Poster Action

I had a bit of fun in Photoshop today and came up with this:

I'll be visiting the green print centre in the next day or so and get some of these posted up.

The Rabbit Hole

To get our characters out into the public eye to create interest and get them to see our character on different media platforms we need to create a "Rabbit Hole". A Rabbit Hole is a piece of media that provides either a direct link or clues about the existence of another media platform which the audience can access to learn more about our characters and their story's. Stephen has a great idea for his character, "The Hipsta Barista" where he has placed coffee cup lids lids with a meme and a link to his meme site which should be great to create some interest in his character amongst the UC community.

Here's a quick poster I created in class today.

It's a bit boring so far and doesn't have a link to his Facebook or Soundcloud pages yet so I'll work on it a bit more before I post is up anywhere. I think the best idea for my character would be a hip hop gig style poster containing some messages about sustainability and a link to his Facebook and Soundcloud pages. I'll put them up around the refectory and Zierholz where the drinkers hang out to hopefully drum up a bit of interest. 

Some Beats

So I'm starting to regret my choice of character a little. The idea of a rapper seemed fun at first but the reality of making tunes isn't quite as fun as I hoped it would be and I haven't been getting the results I was hoping for .
iMaschine is a great app and is really quite powerful and has the potential to be used to create some really high quality beats but I just don't have the time to get to use it properly so I'll have to put that one on the back burner and possibly come back to it later on.

Cipher was the other one I had high hopes for and it's really easy to use and has a great library of tunes to rap to but the final product is actually pretty crappy because the sound levels are so low when you play it back that you can barely hear it, even with the phone on full volume. I even tried plugging it into my stereo with the volume cranked but it still sounds like crap and isn't worthy of uploading anywhere. The music is nice and loud when you're recording the rap so I don't know what the issue is with the exported sound levels. Very disappointing.

Autorap on the other hand has been pretty fun to play with and I've had some pretty good results with it so far. I've uploaded the best one onto the MC Sustain Facebook page here and the link to it on the app's website can be found here While Autorap is easy to use, it's very limited in what you're able to create so I'll keep trying to come up with something a bit more legit.

MC Sustain Lives!

MC Sustain, my champion for creating a culture of sustainability at UC is alive and online. His primary mode of communication will be on Facebook but seeing as though he's a rapper, I've also set up a Soundcloud page for him which I'll be uploading his music onto... (gulp).

You can find him on Facebook here and on Soundcloud here