In our week 4 lectorial, we did an activity where we wrote 5 activities from the life of an imaginary person on sticky notes. One card was clearly the opening, one was the conclusion and there were 3 moveable activities that could be placed in any order.

This made us think about interchangeability in the editing process and the value of being able to mix things up when they’re not quite working right. We then had to decide which of these cards could be a turning point in the day and how this would affect each of the other activities. Finally, we had to replace the opening and closing activities for the day with two more activities that could be placed in any order, the same as the first three.

It was interesting to experiment with different sequences, imagining how the person’s mood would change throughout the day and the impact of certain events on other activities. Even moving one event had the potential to change the narrative behind the ‘day in the life’ mini story. This was a simple exercise that got me thinking about how different clips can work together. I found that when I put the media elements together for my second project brief, they didn’t work as I imagined they would. I had to reconstruct and even re-film some of these elements to work for the piece I was trying to create.