Understanding and Misunderstanding (Week 3)

For project two, Errol and I took a systematic approach to address skate video practice. We decided to tailor our concept statement specifically to the studio prompt exploring: how has video, computers and the network been used to reshape skate videos as an example of online video practice?

In doing so, an array of potential explorative pathways emerged and we noticed very quickly that this approach to the project broadened the scope too much to the point that we were researching skate video culture in general and comparing historical to contemporary examples, etc. After our discussion with our tutor today, it became immediately clear that although this may be a great research project, it is distanced far outside the scope of the allocated task as it is addressing a much broader issue, when instead the focus of this assignment was to be specific about a particular practice of online video. Therefore, in order to address the given task, the focus had to be transferred to one particular case study and the sketches had to be more defined and explorative of specific, individual attributes noticed in analysis of that one case study.

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