When I arrived to class today Indri and Nicole were mid-discussion with Robbie about our ideas for our final assignment. I semi joined the conversation, but mainly jotted down some notes I was gathering from their chat:

(Random notes jotted down quickly)

• Compact experience that is documented. Set it up as an experience
• Primary part? Or just a section.
• What are our aims and outcomes?
• Outcome = live performance? Or a series of interactions that you experience in the same place?
• Identity focused. Different realities online, presenting yourself in a new and different way.
• Character building exercise? Program is about constructing characters that match their personality.
• Idea of dealing with a virtual space, finding a way to be in it – whether it’s through the screen, suddenly everyone is in the same space. Uniting in the same space. Conversations coming from that space.
• Creating an environment that we are all able to be a part of.
• Physical consideration – webcam – changing something in the physical site but it’s available through the virtual

 

The plan so far is to get the footage done asap so we can start compiling everything together. We have lots of ideas, but aren’t sure the order of them, or the narrative structure. So with all the footage done first it will be easier to work this out because we can visually see what works and what doesn’t.

 

Exploring how sacred space for people can be online.

 

Today I also had an interesting thought. The video requirement is between 3-4 minutes. Our video starts with the opening of a laptop/online and screen environment. It then bookends itself with the laptop shutting and the screen fading to black. In between the opening and closing shots/segments, a range of online activity is displayed. This suggests that even though people can only be online for 3-4 minutes, they are able to participate in so much activity. Whether this be communicating with friends, family or strangers, downloading, uploading, editing, searching, learning etc. So the video length itself could be an interesting aspect to explore, putting it into literal perspective.