As we’re collaborating with the creative writers to make a web serial for our final piece of assessment, our media studio is trying to keep the engagement with them consistent. As you can see in previous posts, my group alone has given the writers two visual and one text prompt, while the class has all together given them five visual and two text prompts.
It has been difficult working in separate environments to the writers as we are unable to work directly with them, and understand their thoughts and the process that they are going through. Although, working in these separate environments are necessary as we work on different aspects of the serial, so it does help for us to focus on our specific areas of expertise.
At the beginning when we combined to share ideas, people’s thoughts and interpretations tend to be misconstrued, which complicated the process. Though, ever since we have started to exchange prompts I believe that communication between the creative writing and media studios has gotten much better. I think this is because we are able to show that what we do is competent, and we become more trusting in the other’s work. We also are able to see what the writers are doing, and try to contribute to their work. We are thus able to creatively express our ideas through our preferred medium.
I believe that in order to engage and work collaboratively with the writers, it is necessary to communicate and share our ideas through these prompts. This way, the creative writers are able to see visual possibilities for what their script could look like, and not disregard any of our ideas (and for us not to disregard theirs). Overall, it is not our job as the media students to write the scripts, but these prompts do help us to feel as though we are part of the initial creative process.
