Designing Science Fiction

Presentation!  The greatest one star restaurant in the quadrant our story revolves around a bunch of runaway cyborgs who steal a restaurant ship to escape human rule.  However, they forget to turn off the beacon and end up getting customers.  To avoid detection, they use their own meat to create meals to keep the customers happy.  Engineer becomes consumed with the idea of pleasing these customers, and the story quickly turns bloody as she ransacks the other cyborgs for more meat for these meals, eager for human approval. We looked at three different aesthetic design concepts. Really useful feedback: Told to look at dark humor type movies Stepford Wives Shawn of the dead Zombieland Ex Machina Look at other retro aesthetic for the retro theme like a Kiwiana twist (Milkbars) To do before next meet up: Bridget: Script for trailer/storyboard Dani: Start playing around in after effects - do some stuff

Some context  Characters   Engineer   Captain - size and shape of a large fish tank   Friendly - could pass for human Jukebox - the only cyborg aboard their ship with real chemoreceptors. Shaped like a steel cabinet   Navi - all occipital tissue and myelinated axons Subject matter   meat   guts/ muscle   food/ takeout orders customers   cyborgs   space shuttle marine culinary   review system   beacon Food mentioned in the story   Salisbury steak blueberry cobbler   wine Savoury sauce.   Blackberries (mashed up by Friendly’s fingers) Boxed-up meals shot between the ships in an insulated steel container Meat steaks seared, sausages, meatballs. filled with cilantro ganache. pizza teabags   chocolate wilted handfuls of cilantro and some radishes the liquefied kidney paste tossed with raw pasta risotto red bean paste creamed together with ketchup and red pepper flakes. Red things. Parts of the story that made me lol   “Humans wer

Moodboards:  Space ship designs This design reminds me of a grasshopper head. We could look at life on earth and take inspiration from it. Insect Heads: Stingrays and Manta-rays have a slick look Aesthetic Direction: Retro Design Diner Vibes Merged with this style -  District Nine Art book: Final Output: Movie poster/ Advertisement- Kasina Character concept art - Grace/ Dani Space ship concept art - Dani Physical Model space ship and maybe character - Bridget Animation - Short trailer - Grace/ Dani To do this week: Character Sketches - Grace Spaceship Design Sketches - Dani Interior Space - Bridget Advertisement/ Signage of the space - how the diner is advertised and Display food signage within the spaceship on the walls. - Kasina (Hope this makes sense message me if confused) 3 different concepts -  Aesthetic and setting e.g Retro Diner (1950s) Fancy restaurant Cyber Punk Cool Art

Notes from class during group discussions Identity - Human Identity & Technology, trans-humanism. Organic vs. inorganic - What is exchanged for new technology. Money & Power - Access to technology is hindered by the amount of money & power. Logical vs. empathy - we as humans fear the idea of logical decisions i.e saving a child. Empathy vs. Logical decision making. Interesting Discussions: why is everything blue and orange. As humans who see in colour, certain colour combinations are attractive to our eyes, and this is most often the case when two colours sit opposite each other on the colour spectrum. Since human skin tones are generally in the orange spectrum, it can be aesthetically pleasing to compliment this with the colour that sits opposite that, which is, well… It’s blue. Just in case you didn’t. It’s blue. Cite: https://www.atomcreativemedia.com/blog/entertainment/why-do-we-see-so-much-orange-and-blue-in-movies/ Why give cyb