Some more Korsakow Film Inspiration
The 2013 Korsakow film The Making of a King by Nicole Miyahara is the subject of this week’s interactive documentary inspiration. This film follows Drag Kings in LA and what this involves in their lives.
I will be critiquing this film using De Bono’s hats in the structure of lists.
Red
- New concept (I did not know about before)
- Raw and honest interviews
- Intriguing
Black
- There was not enough content to choose from in the preview windows.
- The film ended relatively quickly. I felt like there were clips that I missed out on.
- The preview clips played sound when they were hovered over which overlapped the sound from the main SNU window and was distracting
- The talking head style interviews that I watched at the beginning were confusing as I had no background into the film (I didn’t read the description until afterward). It seemed as though I had joined in mid-conversation. Once I grasped the idea being explored, they started to make sense. This may not necessarily be a bad thing!
- Some of the clips were too long and so I lost interest, particularly one clip where a subject was discussing one of her costumes. The beauty of Korsakow is that I was able to change clips by clicking on another preview window.
Yellow
- Very interesting concept that I knew nothing about previously.
- Traditional documentary style talking head interviews mixed with other footage of performances made it more engaging.
- The preview clips only appear and play when the cursor hovers over the right hand side of the main SNU window toward the end of the clip. There is less distraction in this style of interface than in other K-Film interfaces.
- Obvious distinctions between connections in the film e.g. preparation for the shows, show footage and talking head interviews.
Green
- The play head was placed in an unusual position within the interface. It looked a little out of place being under the preview windows. I would prefer to see it positioned under the main SNU window.
- The film ended a little abruptly for me. I would have preferred if there were more links in the film so I was able to explore more of the concept.