June 8 from 2pm. To be followed by a party in the university’s new media precinct.

This is where each studio shows what has been done, and you also hear about the studios on offer for semester two.

What needs to be done? As a studio an eight minute presentation needs to be planned. I would think about a 4 or 5 minute talk (that’s 600 – 700 words), and then 4 minutes of curated media content showing what you have made.

My advice would be that one or two people write the 600 words and read it to the studio next week for feedback. For content I’d provide the context you think is needed for the audience to understand the films they are going to be shown. So something about a ‘distant’ collaboration with others in Offenburg that is a game of exquisite corpse, and what exquisite corpse is. Then if you wanted to show some/parts/example of the other films made then outline of what they involved. The question they ask would nearly be enough, and then saying why. I’d also use things like the listing you made of your matters of concern as a very good and simple list of what you’ve achieved.

In relation to the media, there’s no reason you couldn’t run video behind your talking, as long as it was silent. So you could if you wanted edit together 8 minutes of material, talk over it at beginning, when talking finished unmute the audio (simplest). With intertitles between each clip with your names and if it is exquisite corpse and what it is responding to, or the title/subject of your individual films. A small team should take this on board too, and show the work for feedback next week.

I’m not sure of the running order of the presentations, what matters is to share a sample of what you have made, what you have learned (which for many studios is not about explicit content but implicit or tacit things), and how what you have made helped you/shows/thinks about what you were thinking about through the studio. (Through not in the sense of time but the studio as a particular sort of ‘learning medium’.)