Isadora Tutorial

In the second week of this module, we briefly looked at Isadora. Isadora is a programme which you can create interactive media that can be used in many different ways, such as creating movements and sounds to encourage the program to react to each of these. It is something I have worked on in my second year of university, and I had many problems with it back then, as my computer crashed and the program was not responding.

I was really hoping my second time trying to create something would be a much better experience, however again it was not. I had looked at instructions of the examples we had been given to create, however I could not get my head round working all the different functions and how they connected such as the projector function, which would help the computer respond to movement or sound, and would create the screen to react to this. I feel after my bad experience first time, it did not help second time, so I do not think I will be using Isadora in the future out of choice.

THIRD YEAR OF MEDIA PRODUCTION

Triptych/Split Screen


For the first session, we were introduced to multiple screen and triptychs. These skills will help me with my final project, expanding my knowledge with techniques for media practice. Multiple screen and triptychs, is described like a montage, to help tell the story through different points of view and to expand on a narrative. We were told to create three different screens, to be at the most 30 seconds long, and to have some sort of narrative to it. My group tried to keep it as simple as possible with the narrative, and just tried to get the techique right. This is what my group created:








I was pleased with the project as we did achieve what we were meant to, and created three different screens which is what the brief was. However there could have been some improvements to make, such as making the screens work together. For instance, as a character moved their hand out of one shot/screen, it could then appear in another of the screens. It would have been time consuming however trying to get this to look perfect, and in the time we were given to finish the brief, I felt we achieved a reasonable piece of work. 




QR Codes



At the moment, QR codes are a popular way of giving more information to audiences, used in TV, advertisements, even art. It gives audiences a second screen to look at, that interlinks with the main screen. We looked at an example of how QR codes are used, App the Movie, which is a movie with an app the audience can download, and connects to the film, and in certain scenes, will show extra information on your mobile device about the film.

In groups, we had to create a second screen using QR codes. We began using the titles to the American sitcom Friends, adding QR codes for each character, which would show on the second screen the most popular scenes or quotes of the character. We created 7 QR codes, but as the titles to the show is about under a minute, it was difficult to catch the QR code in time to scan. We also lost our footage to try and change what we had so began from scratch.

We found a slightly finished version in the end and uploaded it to YouTube:








We used the 2001 film Not Another Teen Movie, producing character profiles on Instagram for each QR code. It worked, however we felt we could have used more platforms for the codes. This is what we presented to the rest of the group, and feel it did work, however our feedback was to create maybe different media platforms other than Instagram.











To improve this, we could have used our own footage, and maybe been a little more creative, however in time we had, I felt we didn't have the best amount of time to achieve something from scratch, especially as our first piece didn't go exactly to plan.