In our final week of preparing this project, we had to make some decisions regarding how we wished our work to be presented to an audience. We were going to label the thumbnails in Korsakow with subtitles representing the genres, but ultimately decided that it shouldn’t be up to us to tell the audience what they are listening to and what they should be feeling. Instead we opted for thumbnails made up of screenshots from the videos showing Michelle’s face, which changed depending on what scene the thumbnail represented. This way, there is a way to identify each video without explicitly telling the viewer what they are about to experience, which allows for improved audience interaction and leaves room for interpretation. We also allowed for previews to each segment, so that audiences could hear the music as they hovered their cursor over the thumbnail. This creates a sense of anticipation, as the viewer can hear the music and predict what kind of ‘mood’ the video will portray before they see it.

Upon reflection, we didn’t have as much modularity in our project as I would have liked, as the video and audio are essentially fixed to each other and don’t allow for experimentation by the audience, but I think for the nature of our experiment we did it as well as we could have, plus to make ours modular in a meaningful way would probably require using different software. I do however really like how the project turned out, as it achieved what we were attempting to achieve. It showcases the differences music can make to the same scene, and furthermore, it forced us to made media as a ‘response’, which I think made it more interesting to work on with other people.