Lenses based media day 2

On our second day of lens based media, we were asked to bring in 5 personal ephemera that we would use as an inspiration to create a story. In our groups we would create a narrative that involved out objects, and present it to the class.

Reflecting: 

From the lens based media I found this task to be the most difficult to grasp the concept off. When me and my group members showed our personal ephemera we found that we had many similar objects and that there were only 2 different objects that not everyone had. With the ideas we had, we found it difficult to describe our story ideas in 6 frames, by creating the characters, problems and worlds. At the end of the task we feel that we achieved a potential idea, which was one group member losing a personal item when waking up and then waking up to find out that losing the object was only happening in a dream. We felt that it was somewhat successful but not completely. However because of the way we pictured our character it was not obvious to others that our setting was a dream world. My group did not receive any feedback from this task, as we finished it slightly late due to printing issues. Overall I learnt from this task that thinking outside the box is very difficult especially when it comes to telling a story, as it has to be surprise and unassuming to have maximum impact.

Analysing:

I think that the most successful aspect of this task was that it wasn't over complicated, but very simple yet difficult to see the ending of the story. However the unsuccessful aspect was that it was extremely difficult to come up with our story, and this is what most of our time was spent on. Because of this we almost rushed the idea that we finalised, as we were quite confused by our tutor that we had to keep questioning the characters, settings, and decisions that we made for them. Ofcourse coming up with the story was the most challenging part, however photographing our story was very easy once we for the idea in mind.

Time management:

Concerning the time planning we spent on this Project, we spent no time planning or coming up with how we would achieve this task, and this was mainly due to the reason of us having to question out motivations for the worlds and characters that we put in place. As a designer I beilive that lens based media is an extremely difficult area of design as large amounts of time are required to analyse pictures, and think of a suitable narrative for telling a story.