#4 Progress on We Create Identity

Some days, maybe weeks ago we began with our project for 'We Create Indentity'. The assignment was and still is to create and interactive video about a certain theme that we could pick or make up ourselves.

Our group that I will introduce later, picked the theme 'scenario'. That for example could be a distaster happening at a certain place at a certain time and then we had to show what would happen.
At first we were thinking about what happened at the Love Parade, where people were somehow in panic and caused a stampede that unfortunately caused some fatal injuries to people.

Now I will introduce my group:
Roman
Jelle G.
Fabienne
Inéz
Dmitri

But another part of the assignment was to entertain people. And to be honest the story of the Love Parade is still to fresh to entertain people with in my opinion. So I am glad that Roman came up with another idea: Alien Invasion.

That idea intriged me from the first moment! I liked it, you can easily make it as some sort of disaster and with some ingenuity and some creativity it could be very entertaining as well! So we started a brainstorm-session.

The brainstorm session resulted in a diagram that contained ideas of what could and should be in the interactive video. However we still did not really have a plan, we were thinking of filming our footage ourselves, but we weren't sure about it yet (I did already apply for the role as alien though.)
Then at some lecture we were told to write a 12-step story that is linked to our interactive video and we wrote a nice story which was unfortunately and unforseen by the other groupmembers changed by Roman while were in front of the class. The nice thing about it was, he is a good storyteller and got some laughs out of the audience. The bad thing was that the people that had to speak after Roman had no clue what to tell since he changed the entire story! Questions asked by the audience after that small presentation were also valid, because the story Roman told made no sense, though those questions would not have been asked if he had told the story we were supposed to be telling.

The next week we had another meeting as group, unfortunately Fabienne was ill but could still assist us through the computer using a chat program called Windows Live Messenger. At that meeting we were trying to divide roles and had to think of what we were going to say next monday (which is next monday at the time I am writing this). We figured we had to make some sort of trailer that would show the audience what our theme is and what direction we are heading with the interactive video. Not much actually happened there and me and Fabienne just figured that we could try and make a trailer. We then sat together with the two of us and made the basic storyline for the trailer and then Fabienne insisted on creating the entire trailer just by herself. (Which I will ask again if she is sure that she wants that.)

There is more to be told, but that will happen another day since it is late now and I need a beer!

#3 Just Another Post

Today has been a good day, yet I do not have much to say.

# 2 Fine Old Music

I was in the mood of sharing the song I am enjoying at the moment.
Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKxiLCMb6Q4

Have a good day!