This weeks tutorial was focused more-or-less on updating each other on our progress and what challenges we have been facing. Most groups seemed to be at relatively at the same stage as my group that was reassuring. It was great having the opportunity to ‘touch base’ with one another and just to confirm that whatever ideas have come to us since the previous week seemed like a good idea. One change our group has made from last week is to focus less on a ‘mocumentary’, but rather look at creating a dialogue that explains our concept of ‘slactivism verses activism’ while also using ‘talking heads’ to validate our arguments.

The biggest issue our group is having is a. Pinning down our main idea, which I believe we have done now, but also be confident in bringing our ideas to the table and knowing they would be seriously looked at. One idea I thought we could use was instead of having all our dialogue face-to-face we could film conversations over text and Facebook, as what we are looking at is technology and social media. This idea was adapted in our project brief and we all seemed to like the outcome.

Copyright is another issue some groups have been facing, what’s appropriate and what isn’t. Our group may like to use the very beginning of Primal Scream’s ‘Loaded’ in our project brief at some point as we think it could give some excitement to the video and it is very appropriate to the protest aspect of the video. Our main concern is that perhaps this could be in breach of copyright, after speaking to our tutor we came to the conclusion that using a small bit shouldn’t offend many people. If, after editing and using the audio it seems like there could be an issue regarding copyright we will review it and see if it’s worth the risk.