Initial Design Process - Pt. 1 Beginnings

Welcome to the Wonkru Designs production blog! 

This blog has been created to document our progress for our NM4225 Design Fiction final assignment, where we will be creating a cool new futuristic wearable studio for a practitioner of our choice.

The practitioner that we initially chose to observe and develop a new wearable tool for was the professional live events videographer.

After following a freelance events videographer around for a day, we observed the tools that he used and came up with a list of must-have tools for any videographer:

1)    Video Camera

2)    Portable Light

3)    XLR Microphone w/ Wind Shield

4)    External Microphone

5)    Extra Camera Lenses

When it comes to live event videography, the speed at which it takes to set up your camera, lights, and sound, are of utmost importance, as it can mean getting the shot or not, as there are no second takes when you’re shooting live

However, we noticed that it typically takes around 5~10 minutes for a videographer to get all the equipment he needs out of the multiple bags that he’s carrying and set everything up (even longer if he requires a tripod set-up).

Most video camera bags only hold the camera (with lens and microphone attached), and have little to no space for the light, external microphone, and extra lenses.

Thus, we decided that it would be a nifty idea to design a futuristic camera bag that not just carries all of those tools in one single bag, but also eliminates the need for the user to carry a tripod and additional camera batteries. In a nutshell, the main purpose of our new camera bag was to create a complete videography studio that could be set up in within a minute and had everything a live videographer would need to start and continue shooting over an extended period of time.