Week 6 - Tutorial Task

Video Update

I'm excited about this task, and finding it slightly daunting. You really have to put a leash on your mind, because when ideas run rampant it is hard to stay focused and realistic. At first we were talking about online dating, and how we could follow people through their experiences of chatting to potential partners online and eventually meeting them in person. This would free us to explore the dangers and also the benefits that could stem from these interactions. Our other idea was a cheesy horror clip about new communication technology attacking their users. Once we finished describing our two ideas to Lauren, she helped narrow our focus down, saying it was impossible to squeeze in everything we wanted into 3 minutes, and the second idea was more achievable. So in the end we decided to make a cheesy horror film trailer about new communication technology attacking their users.

Warned against the dangers of defamation and copyright infringement, we set about brainstorming the best way to go about things. We delegated tasks to everyone to search through Creative Commons for pictures, video and anything usable for our idea. Christina has access to iMovie on her MacBook so she was to play around with some ideas on there. It was then just a matter of getting some frameworks to work with, no matter how scattered it seemed. Ideas for scenes, use of sounds and black screens, a computer generated text to speech function so the computer seems like it's talking. We have a lot to work with, let's see how we go next week.