Initial Idea Developments .2 (Pitman Shorthand)

Ideas of Coding using Symbols:

Thinking about how to add codes into the topic, keeping the lettrism movement in mind, developing symbols for phonic sounds heard in the conversation?

Other abbreviations such as short hand or waitress notation, what ways to people condense text to make it easier to read?

Pitman's Shorthand

Based off on a phonetic system, symbols represent sounds rather than words. Small difference in the weight of the stroke will represent a different sound, light strokes represent a lighter sound such as p and t with a heavier stroke the sound is more harsh such a b or d. 

Pitman Shorthand used straight strokes and quarter-circle strokes, in various orientations to represent consonant sounds. The most used way of representing a vowel is by using a light or heavy dot, dash or small mark often close the the consonant. 

Research into Pitman's shorthand

Establishing systems and rules using the number
of words and syllables

Experimenting with a way of presenting the data

• Developing an alphabet from Pitman's shorthand, trying to establish an alphabet to then expand from and translate the conversation to.
• Thinking of systems and ways to develop a code, looking a number of letters and syllables in a word, translating this to dots across or dots up etc. 
• The use of the dots to depict the type isn't very successful, doesn't have the same polished look as an existing shorthand.

Developing imagery for Google Translate 

Liberty Park to Uni:

Walk north on Marlborough St towards Duncombe Street

Turn right onto Park Lane

Slight left to stay on Park Lane

Turn left onto Hanover Way

Continue straight onto Woodhouse Square

Continue onto Clarendon Road

Turn right onto Hyde Street

Turn left onto Clarendon Way

Continue onto Hyde Terrace

Turn right

Slight left at Mount Preston Street

Slight right towards Cromer Road

Slight left at Cromer Road

Take the pedestrian overpass

Turn right at Precinct

Turn left onto University Road

Turn left towards Woodhouse Lane

Turn right onto Woodhouse Lane

Slight left to stay on Woodhouse Lane

Through the first 18 languages:
Answer Duncan Avenue and go to Marlborough
Follow the park
It makes the landscape more beautiful than the beekeeper
Come back
Go straight to Furbury Square
Clarendon continues to speak
Hyde Street is instantly improvised
Clarendon Road made a mistake
Stairs of an uninterrupted funeral
Riturnela quit.
Grenada left the battlefield
Cromerweg
Just in Cromerweg
Walk
Back to the right
Time
Part left of the left group
Wireless Cumpell, right
The easiest way to go to the woods

As suggested in a crit trying to visualise the directions from google maps, these videos are cut to be proportionate to the time it would take to walk each direction of the route. 

• Having the text on the bottom provides more context for the imagery, and adds to the humour as street names become people as we can see in the 'Clarendon continues to speak' scene and develops to 'Clarendon Road made a mistake'. You end up with a feeling of character development. 
• Could also be turned into a series of icons based off of the text. illustrate the scenes in more detail, develop into a book of sorts.