Narrative studies
I should have written this on to the blog long ago, but since i have problems connecting to the internet, i've finally had a chance to write my learnings from last weeks classes:
16th of October:
We were all split in a big group (Group A,B and C) to produce a story based on the objects that we as an individual has found on the street. Writing an instilation piece on the random objects on the street (i.e. mostly garbage) was hard to make and the biggest problem was we were in the big group, so it was hard to communicate with one another. The first thing we did was to pass around a piece of paper, each writing down what object each has found. After that we were in a big circle and has started to build a story. What we have come up was a journey that the viewer can experience through the random objects (that we found on the street), making this on a touch screen so that the user can easilly take on a journey depending upon which object chosen.
After we've decided on the main concept, we had to make them into reality (i.e. as a finished piece of work), so we then broke down to smaller groups and split the task. One group (4~5 people): were making dialogs and writings-basically writing the story in detail, another group was in charge of taking photos, and the last group creates the whole power point presentation.
I think we were doing fairly good in terms of dividing the groups and giving tasks.
19th of October:
In Narrative 1 class, we were divided in a small group of 4. Then we were each given a theme (which we weren't allow to tell the other groups) and we had to make a short film based on the theme given. We were to proof Jools's theory of us having a basic understandinf of using camera and the knowledge of showing the message across to the viewer, without having to learn technical knowledge. Our group was given a theme: 'Fighting compulsion'. So we did a short film of the students drinking alcohol and smoking but strying to resist (addiction), and eating sweets or doing lottery..etc.
I really enjoyed this seminar, it was really fun as we were co-operating really well and was a good team work. We got to think and share ideas and taking in each of the ideas and making them into a short film. After making the short film, we all looked at other short films made by other groups and wrote some feedback. The feedback that we got from other groups was useful and was helpful to know what the viewer found or thought through looking at the short film.
The importance of this exercise was: to be able to communicate, how to bring the message across, controlling the elements, understanding how to deliver information to the viewer.
16th of October:
We were all split in a big group (Group A,B and C) to produce a story based on the objects that we as an individual has found on the street. Writing an instilation piece on the random objects on the street (i.e. mostly garbage) was hard to make and the biggest problem was we were in the big group, so it was hard to communicate with one another. The first thing we did was to pass around a piece of paper, each writing down what object each has found. After that we were in a big circle and has started to build a story. What we have come up was a journey that the viewer can experience through the random objects (that we found on the street), making this on a touch screen so that the user can easilly take on a journey depending upon which object chosen.
After we've decided on the main concept, we had to make them into reality (i.e. as a finished piece of work), so we then broke down to smaller groups and split the task. One group (4~5 people): were making dialogs and writings-basically writing the story in detail, another group was in charge of taking photos, and the last group creates the whole power point presentation.
I think we were doing fairly good in terms of dividing the groups and giving tasks.
19th of October:
In Narrative 1 class, we were divided in a small group of 4. Then we were each given a theme (which we weren't allow to tell the other groups) and we had to make a short film based on the theme given. We were to proof Jools's theory of us having a basic understandinf of using camera and the knowledge of showing the message across to the viewer, without having to learn technical knowledge. Our group was given a theme: 'Fighting compulsion'. So we did a short film of the students drinking alcohol and smoking but strying to resist (addiction), and eating sweets or doing lottery..etc.
I really enjoyed this seminar, it was really fun as we were co-operating really well and was a good team work. We got to think and share ideas and taking in each of the ideas and making them into a short film. After making the short film, we all looked at other short films made by other groups and wrote some feedback. The feedback that we got from other groups was useful and was helpful to know what the viewer found or thought through looking at the short film.
The importance of this exercise was: to be able to communicate, how to bring the message across, controlling the elements, understanding how to deliver information to the viewer.
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