1W21.01_Structures

After beeing clearer about the final work of my project I felt it easier for me to restart my research process.

I will split my project into 3 sections.

1. proposal focus – digital communication behaviour in business and personal life and the mental and social effects to society

• mobile phones
• e-mail
• social-networks

2. technical skills

• improving my photoshop & illustrator skills
• learn premiere / Final Cut Express
• learn After Effects / Cinema 4D

3. Final Project

• Writing a screenplay
• Produce a storyboard
• Film
• Edit the Footage with sound, effects & photographs

I already did lots of reading for my project – but from time to time I felt a bit lost with all the information. While I do the reading process I need to write more down the main information – and not safe them only in my brain.  I hope that with this structure I feel a bit more comfortable.

So, my this week task will be reading the book “grown up digital” by don tapscott.

1W20_Flow…

Title: “flow” // February 2009 //

“Flow is the mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity (Wikipedia).”

The last 2 weeks I was searching “my” flow… I recently got a bit depressed about my project. I felt that my project would end up in a total marketing study. As you know, my background is marketing & communication. One  ambition of mine is to leave the marketing person behind and be focused more on my art. I felt it really hard to combine the research process and the art process.

To get not lost and more depressed into the reading process I decided to be more focused on improving my software skills. Also, I read 2 books about digital art for hoping to get more inspiration. Throughout this process I was constantly thinking about how my final work could look like. I had a great idea a while ago but unfortunatly the idea is pretty tough to realize from the technical part/ which is into laser technology. So I gave up that idea (just for the moment/ it’s still in my mind..:) ) and was searching for another possibilty to combine my research and art. I felt it would feel easier to have an imagination how my final work could look like and then beeing focused on the realization and research.

It took me a while but now I have a great idea to combine both parts. My final work will be a little movie with hybrid media. The context of the movie will be 24 h in the life of a fictional person and how digital communication, modern technology change (and will change us into the future)  the social  and mental life. Thatfore I will write a script,  a storyboard, shoot the video, and do the editing and the video effects. I am not sure yet, but I think it also will include some of my photography, graphic designs and maybe 3-D.  It is a huge challenge, but I am very excited about the idea!

In my turial Andy recommended me to read a book of william gibson – Idoru. It is a science fiction novel. I hope to get more inspiration for my script.

It feels really good to be back on the track – and once again to feel my “flow”.

1W4.02_It’s done…

Today I finished the project proposal draft. I am very happy that this is done now. I didn’t have to much problems writing the proposal. More proplems I do have to visualize it.

That is a big challenge for me, cause I have never done a video. So the last days I spent a lot of time to search for the right software etc. I finally decided to work with Final Cut Express. Since last Thursday I do have the programm on my mac but unfortuntly this programm is very complex. One thing I don’t have at the moment is enough time to get into it. I do have clear ideas how my video should look, but the main problem is, I don’t know how to produce it with the software. This is a bit tricky. But anyway, I am sure in a few weeks I will be able to produce the video I wanted.

For the visualisation of the proposal I decided to do a little slideshow, just with sentence. The sentence should impact the viewer and start making them to think. I finished this work with flash – and now I do have the next challenge in front of me! How will I get this little movie uploaded in a good resolution to the web? I tried to upload it on You tube – but the quality was so bad that I erased it immediatly. So I hope I will find a way to get a better quality.

1W2_I love amazon… or even not?

I am currently working on my proposal. My head is full of ideas and it feels like a mess which needs to get organized. I love this creative process – eventhough it is also a bit exhausting. Today  was a pretty stressfull day at work and therefore I decided to work a little on my bibliography for the proposal.

Therefore I checked out amazon and while I was exploring all the books I asked myself how my life was before there was the internet. It must have been so much work to research books, especially for me as a German who is searching English books. It is amazing how much offers there are with the internet. So I got stucked on amazon. I was surprised about all the literature about my project. What happend was, that I got from one book to the other and my list got bigger and bigger… I spent nearly 2,5 hours on amazon, because buyers adviced other interesting books.

What finally happend was, that I got stucked in an information overload of so many interesting books I want to read. Now it makes it sooo hard to decide which book I will take. As much possibilities you have the more difficult it is to choose! So finally I am not so sure if I love the endless possibilites of the internet and amazon – or if it’s easier to choose just from a smaller offer…. aarrghhhh .