Right after presenting the second assignment, we were divided into groups by filling the ‘preference form’, which meant group members could help each other to do their good at parts, and finally I formed the group with Nat, Jessie and Jackson. We were introduced the so-called ‘essay’ or ‘diary’ form, that reminded me of the ‘daily vlog’ videos on Youtube, because both these two forms are usually filming some moments of real life and then using the montage kind of editing to make the video meaningful. Compared with our last assignment, I thought the video diary would pay more attention on the ‘fragment’ element. Like the example ‘Diaries, Notes & Sketches’, a series of non-fictional short clips could collaborate together to present an abstract theme, which was very related to the two characteristics — modularity and variability we’ve talked about before. After reading the requirements of assignment three, our group first made the decision that we tended to have serious content, and also wanted to involve music in this projects. I first came up with an idea that we could use music of different mood and tempo, and edited the clips to fit the tempo, but it came with the question that should we film twelve video clips of different content or only one clip, and how to make the clip itself meaningful. Further, the copyright of the soundtrack is another limitation because we may not able to create the music by ourselves. We would keep thinking around the music theme to come up with more plans.

This assignment is called Interactive Screen Media Project, so, to realise the interactive experience, we need to learn the software Korsakow, which is able to create non-linear video works on the website, then audiences can explore the whole project by clicking individual clips. I watched a Korsakov creating film Money and the Greeks, and had understood more about how it work to manage fragments. This work is consisted by numbers of short interviews, and each of it has a title on the thumbnail that summarises one of the problems of Greek economy. I think interviews work quite effectively in Korsakow, because audiences don’t need to view them in order. Also, interviewers are from different communities, like Greeks, Greeks living abroad and Germans, so it’s even better to randomly hear different opinions, then think about the financial crisis critically. During watching this project, I also found it very interactive that the surrounding small videos appeared as the same pattern, and would change to the actual thumbnails when I move my mouse over them. It provides the sense of exploring, so I will like to go over all the thumbnails on this page, know about these related information, and then decide to watch one of them. If a project contains more clips and has a complex connection between all the videos, this design may help audiences to patiently go through most of the content, then they won’t miss too much information until they watch the last one. In general, the key element to make a project work is that each video should make sense, then audiences won’t get confused, or lose interest, and at the end, they can find out that these videos actually work for one theme, and that is the goal we want our project to achieve.