In order to progress with the coming together of our film I did some research on articles relating to the idea of Digital Overload. Some of the results were really interesting and made me think about different angles we could take for the film, thinking about ideas that are relevant to the current generation.
Why Digital Overload Is Now Central To The Human Condition
https://singularityhub.com/2016/01/15/why-grappling-with-digital-overload-is-now-part-of-the-human-condition/
This article discusses the idea that we are now so reliant on technology that it has become essential to us in every day life.
This is interesting because so many young people now have smartphones and are glued to screens all day long, choosing this over going outside and leaving their phones (etc) behind. It could change the way the younger generation is growing up, as they are more reliant on technology than ever.
Digital Overload and the Curation Crossroads
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2012/05/digital_overload_and_the_curat.html
Discussing the ideas of micro-publishing and how there has been an overload of information from so many sources.
Unplug And Reboot Your Creativity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00tTjaC7uZw
Caroline Giegerich's talks about digital overload as it affects our creative thinking. Through her own battle with digital addiction, she lays the stage for the effects on the brain and discusses how to detox to unleash change in our society.
Smartphones Are Really Stressing Out Americans
An article about how people feel the need to be constantly checking their phones and this is raising stress levels. Also the stress that social media creates, and having everything right at your fingertips.
CONTEXTUAL UNDERSTANDING
We want to
create a film that features a lot of digital manipulation and saturated
colours, leaving it very suggestive and to be interpreted by its audience, like
other experimental films such as Berlin Horse and Black Ice.
Our own concept is to display how we are disconnecting ourselves with the
real world due to the fact we are so obsessed and overtaken by technology in
our lives. We are
also going to take influence from our Digital Materialism short film that Alice
and I made previously, as we want this film to almost be an expansion from
that.
Our
goal is to take people away from reality when they watch our film, and make
them feel overloaded by the technology as the screen will be very bright and
colourful, with the almost robotic voice over.
TECHNICAL AND CREATIVE SKILLS
We will probably do all of our filming on a DSLR camera, as there isn’t
really any need for a bigger film camera.
In the editing process we will watch tutorials to teach ourselves how to
glitch video footage, as this is an effect we want to feature on our final
work. We also want to use other effects such as saturating
the colours rapidly throughout the film, and also having the screen appear
jolty or as if it is flickering. This will help us create the desired effect of
a digital overload.
We also thought about attempting the slit scan effect, which we have watched
videos on. This could bring a different feel to our video and we are willing to
try it out to see if we can make it work.
For sound we might use a voiceover, almost trance like, and edit it to
make it sound more robotic to have it repeat throughout the film, like we did
in our Digital Materialisation short film. This idea came to us when we were
thinking about technology such as Siri (iPhone) and Alexa (Amazon). How these
robotic voices interact with us and take commands from us, but are also able to
have a short conversation with us. Thinking about how these technologies
already exist they are only going to progress and get more involved with our
lives, which is scary, so we thought having an almost robotic voice over would
be a good representation of these technologies.
SELF MANAGEMENT
Alice and
I are very good with our time management and communicate frequently so we can
make sure we are following a tight schedule during the filming week to get all
of our filming complete.
We plan to
make use of all of the filming days efficiently, as our film is going to come
together properly during the filming and editing process. As we both have good
availability this shouldn’t be a problem.
We have
already been doing a lot of self-directed study, mostly presented on our blogs.
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