Errol and I have been anticipating today’s studio because it was a pivotal point for the continuation of our intentions for Project 4. Previous feedback receieved about the progression of our Project was hard to obtain due to our intentions being difficult to explain verbally. It seemed visuals and drafted work was vital for communicating our Project for relevant feedback. Evident from previous blog posts, we had prepared a wide array of rapid prototypes to demonstrate our pathway toward the Prototype, as well as a draft of the Prototype video itself. We presented this material to our teacher during today’s studio for much anticipated feedback about whether we were on track with our progress.

The help of visual examples for our explanation was extremely useful and seemed to communicate our ideas clearly to our teacher. The feedback provided was positive and we were reassured that we were heading on the right track toward a hybrid form of online video practice (‘skate video’ in Snapchat) and that our intentions for creating a collaborative tool could be very interesting.

Suggestions that were made include:

Putting the rapid prototypes in the Prototype video itself to show how they were a useful exploration toward the prototype.

Explain how Snapchat itself works very briefly in order to contextualise the project and make sure it is understandable to a participatory, as well as non-participatory audience. Moreover, people who use and do not use Snapchat.

Use wire diagrams and schematics to illustrate how the online tool would function in regards to a network.

Finally, the narration would have to be very thorough in explaining the motivation for particular notions in terms of relevancy to online video practice and innovation.

From today’s studio, I learnt the importance of providing imagery and drafted examples of projects in order to effectively communicate ideas for feedback.