This week we had a chance to have a look at everyones PB3’s. Going around the room there was some seriously good work. Some stand-outs for me were Sally‘s insight into her friend Tom and Tim‘s PB3 about his Mum in which he seamlessly used the voice over technique I was hoping to use (but I failed miserably). We were also given a chance to critique and praise each others work in small groups by using the ‘hat’ system.

RED HAT: initial instinctual response

GREEN HAT: potential creative possibilities

YELLOW HAT: something you liked about the piece

BLACK HAT: negative response

Some of the feedback I gave Sally was: ~RED HAT~ the audio component of the piece really worked well, which complimented the fact that her project was about sound/music, also her found footage components really worked well. ~GREEN HAT~ Sally could have used more footage of Tom actually speaking to the camera because, the parts where we did see him speaking, it had the feeling of comfort or familiarity, obviously showing that his personality isn’t influenced negatively when in front of a camera (or on stage). ~YELLOW HAT~ the black and white effect given to Sally’s footage not only made the film flow well from original to found footage, but also shaded the piece nicely, giving it a feel of an old music documentary or something similar. ~BLACK HAT~ I honestly could not think of a black hat to give Sally’s PB3!

We were then divided ~randomly~ into our groups for our Project Brief 4 assignment! I was placed in a group with Alex and Julia, I’d never worked with either of these two before, but they also weren’t strangers so I’m really glad for the opportunity to get to know them a bit more and work with some new humans. We were given the media ‘idea’ INSTITUTIONS. So here goes.