Mise-en-scene blog post

    Around a week ago, I was assigned to a group to make an interactive peace around the life a man named David Gonzales. This man is a single father who is also a community librarian. He enjoys connecting with kids and his patient, thoughtful, and helpful personality helps him enjoy his profession that little bit more. We first used a website to design a visual of David be able to better visualize him, however this ended up only consuming time instead of bringing a meaningful contribution to the final product. We then created a mood board of David, this helped give people a simple and concise way to understand the overall idea of David. After we had all this set in stone we then went on to tackle the second question of our project. How are we going to make this experience interactive?

(David Gonzales Mood Board)

        After a bit of debate and discussion we decided we were going to use a video to anchor our costume interactive experience. We made a detailed Word document illustrating what we were going to do and how we were going to make it interactive. This process alone took 3 days, but eventually we has a neat plan on what we there going to do, now it was time to bring the idea to life. When we wrote out how David was going to be like in the video, we decided that he should be a guy who has an artistic side of him. Because of this we used a touch of formalism in our video, but also incorporated realism into the mix, this combination would go on to maximize the immersion of the peace. The whole video was shot at a Barns and Noble to emphasize his job as a librarian, and for the costume design we chose a casual ascetic to match which his easy and approachable personality. I would say that overall these factors translated the final construction of the project being very well executed.

    After the project was completed, I was given time to reflect on my group and how we performed. From not just an individual stand point, but also more importantly, on a collective effort stance. Overall, we did a very good job in the beginning planning stage. We were able to effectively spread and agree on ideas efficiently, and we had little to no issues during this stage of out project. However, we started to have noticeable issues towards the filming and production part of the assignment. A mix of miscommunication, confusion, unclear intentions, and lack of professionalism in some moments lead to us ultimately being significantly less efficient in this section of our work.

Link to word doc:

Video timeline Word Doc

Link to video:

Interactive video