To start off the Multimedia project we spent a lot of time experimenting with different given tasks. Some we felt were successful and gave us ideas to play around with, some not. One of our tasks was to individually write a short paragraph on a blank sheet of paper about our day-to-day interests. With that we got in to groups and ripped the paper in to separate sentences and words. We used the new words from everyone’s paragraphs to make a new paragraph which created different stories and sentences. This left us with a lot of random sentences scattered together. One of which said ‘dreams/nightmares’. We immediately clicked with the idea and wanted to experiment with it, we decided to look in to this idea further as we felt we could create something interesting.
Taking the idea of the dreams and nightmares, we brainstormed ideas of using a storybook, we thought about the idea of a children’s pop out book. We liked the idea of being really graphic and physicalising a story.
We liked the idea of creating a dream world where characters would jump out and tell a story or portray a dream or nightmare. After looking in to this idea we decided it was not going to work properly for us as it required a huge amount of props and our budget would not cover the costs.
We really enjoyed the idea of taking the audience out of reality and immersing them in to a world of a dream and physicalising it. We researched different techniques and came across Stop Motion which we explored with. This was a lot of fun and we liked the process and the effects it gave us, although it was not enough to base a performance around we decided it would work as an element of it. We practised Stop Motion in workshops and continued creating them in outside rehearsals.
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While in workshops, our tutor Lee encouraged us to experiment with the media of mobile phones. We split in to two large groups and sent a text message back and fourth with instructions. This gave us an idea of using live media in our performance. We are still not sure exactly what to do with this but we know it could potentially work nicely.
We are excited to see what else our dream and nightmare idea can turn in to.
(FotoKleen, 3rd February 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPqKlJd2SAc)
By Oliva Clephane
