This week I had to learn about making thumbnails for my sketch film. Seth has a post of a few ways to do this here, but after trying a few methods I decided to just screenshot as this is easier for me to do.

I also had to learn about FTP clients and uploading our sketch film. This was a very new topic for me and I was very nervous to do it. However, following these instructions I actually found it surprisingly easy.

The rest of my ‘troubleshooting’ this week has mostly been around the film essays we wrote for last week. We had to address the content, interface, and pattern of a past student K-film project. I chose to write about ‘Eulogy to Suburbia‘ and you can find my post here.

I had to make my statements clear, make my content easy and efficient to read, and stick to the word limit (which is always a struggle of mine).

I started by thinking about what pattern is and what I wanted to talk about in the film essay. Pattern is all about the relationships which are created through recurring themes/categories/sub-cagetories/keywords/repetition.

I had to stay mindful of the difference between content (the parts and their existence within a structure) and form (which is a little closer to pattern, and all about how it’s structured).

When analysing the content, I had to think about subject matter/what it’s about. What did I notice? Are there ‘groups’ of clips that keep appearing together?

For the interface, I had to look at what was being presented to me and think about how and why it has been designed that way. Are there multiple interfaces? Does the interface change shape and structure? This post on the IM1 blog really helped me to think about the thought processes that go into designing an interface, and what to look for.