On Monday 16th of March, we had the chance to critique our work by playing ‘hats’ which is a game that removes the personal element and replaces it with subjective opinion. ‘Hats’ is a great way to avoid that internal apoplectic rage the simmers behind the eyes of ‘the judged’. It bypasses ego and scorn to become mutual discourse and because it is a requirement… you have to do it!
The way it works is that you wear one of four imaginary hats, each of which have a different colour representing your feelings about a piece of work; i.e. what’s good about the piece, what was your initial reaction, what doesn’t work about the piece and how could it be developed further.
My class mate showed me some of her pieces to which some were so damn good that I was clutching at straws to find something wrong with them!
This class activity proved to be a useful exercise that I will definitely use for future projects.
We then moved onto an iMovie ‘power editing’ session where the class was again divided into groups and given a theme to create a short film using found footage from the archives. Our group had been assigned the theme of movement.
The piece that I have imbedded is short story about the big dreams of a snail.