War and Peace

I think perhaps I may need to set myself a word limit on my reflective report! I have decided to try a few different ways of communicating my thoughts for my report because I doubt that a lengthy typed report will be fun to read or write for that matter! I will continue blogging, and perhaps use some extracts from this in my final report and I have also decided to teach myself InDesign and make some sort of visual reflective report using that. I have a few other random ideas but I may be getting carried away.

As I mentioned in the previous blog I was unhappy with the project but couldn't quite put my finger on the problem. So I showed the rough version of the final clip to a very honest and good friend, Jen and she too thought there was something not quite right but wasn't sure what at that point.

And so, the pair of us went on a day trip to Salford Quays and decided to go in Daniel Libeskind's Imperial War Museum. I am a huge fan of architecture and the Imperial War Museum as a building isn't particularly special but its interior and the reasoning behind its exterior is in the words of Ben, 'Awesome.' The excellent lighting scheme and the angled positions of the walls make you feel disorientated and uncertain.The dark interior evokes every emotion that war does. We also watched a 360 degree show that lasted 15 minutes in the museums main exhibition. The show was filled with real life experiences from a variety of wars, thought provoking imagery and excellent sound effects. I watched and compared it to our project, we had the imagery in ours, we were working on the audio and then Jen hit the nail on the head... we were lacking emotion. I filmed a couple of minutes of the show and also found several other linked items in the exhibition, eg, videos of the Manchester blitz and also some info from the Manchester 1996 bombing.

Back at college and talking to the group I brought this up, with the help of Jen. They agreed and so we are well and truly back on track. So this week Tim is working on the audio, Chris is reworking his script, Tom is working on our title sequence, Adrian is working on the editing again and they have told me to have a week off...somehow I don't think that is going to happen!!!