Week 09: Video project storyboard – Sebastian, April and Vivian
We reframed out storyline into a detective story instead. A man woke up in an unfamiliar place with last memory in head about walking towards a dorm. With the fear of bumping into monster, he explored around and tried to seek the truth. According to different responses to the friend’s call, the story goes into different endings. Please see our storyboard below.
Response to “The danger of a single story” (Vivian Zhu)
When I watched this video, the most impressive thing is that how stories form one’s impression towards a thing, and how limited could a story describe this thing hence resulting in prejudice and misunderstanding.
In the talk, the speaker illustrates how she was affected by American and English literature that once she believed books by nature shall have foreign characters and things. During that time, she enjoyed the pride when she wrote things exotic to others. But on the other, she was frustrated by the stereotype the westerners think of Africans. From which she realized the story can only be a tool that reflects partiality of a thing.
This reminds me of the “Five Obstructions” we watched last week, where the film markers tried to measure the limits of the creation. In this Ted talk, the speaker experienced a measurement to the limitation of a story passively. At last she points out the danger of reading a single story—like the story only about the Africans being sympathized, being assisted, and being tortured by wars and commotions. I think that’s also the warning for our story-telling in the video project.
Week 09: Video Project Proposal (April, Sebastian and Vivian)
Story Line: We wanted to base our story on the Shanghai Ghetto ( 1930s during WWII). The story is about an old man retrospecting his youth life where he fell in love with a Jewish girl during that time. The girl died because of a commotion inside the Ghetto, leaving behind a golden necklace for the old man to cherish. But the truth is, the girl actually accidentally survived during the commotion, and tried to find the old man during rest of her life. Whether they will meet eventually or not…?
Website interactivity: we have two ideas that would be adopted for our project.
- Adding different kinds of filters to the video according to audience’s choice. Hence, the audience will choose their own adventure in a video format, like Black Mirror’s bandersnatch.
- Let the audience to freely arrange the sequence of the clips, in order to combine them into different story lines, thus resulting in different endings.
Audio Project – Winny & Vivian
Here is the link to our project.