Development Post #1

Our project work inspired by my group member’s previous work, called What Gives us Inspiration? – Collaborative Playlist.

It is a collaborative work that explores how creators respond when given the exact same piece of music, and what our own experiences bring to our media creation.

(Screenshots from What Gives us Inspiration? – Collaborative Playlist)

Also, we experienced and discussed a project called Balloons of Bhutan, which is one of Jonathan Harris’s projects. It is an interview based project that coherently responds to a same theme, happiness. There are some constraints in this project, such as the same amount of interviewing duration and question, same bright and colour highlighted photo editing, and same art forms, etc.

(Screenshots from  Balloons of Bhutan)

It is interactive as we can click on the interface to discover the story whoever that we like to know.

(Screenshots from  Balloons of Bhutan)

Also, it responds to modularity of online screen media because of that there are different perspectives from different people. It is not one person’s opinion and there is no overreaching narrative about happy. Each interview/story can be viewed independently, but also form the same narrative/theme about happy as a whole.

Gathering all these information, we determined to set up our project theme to be music, to be specific, Jazz. We will make 6 1min non-lieanr videos in respond to a same piece of Jazz music, or different parts of a same piece of music. The video content will be different scenes or occasions that relates to the music, such as reading a book at home, listening to Jazz in a Jazz club. The video format is considered as better than photographs because it is more more visually attractive. The body movements and gestures with music can be seen clearer on video. The purpose of this is to discover what kind of mood does Jazz music create, is it always the same? Also, what Jazz can do in regard to visual as a music genre.

However, the decision is not finalised, it might be changed in the later group discussion.