blue screen workshop – 21-02-17

Today I carried out the blue screen workshop. It was really fun to play around with the screen and just get something really simple created in the time frame of a day. I feel like if we had more time actually using the screen, we could have created something a bit more technical and seamless, but I kind of enjoy the haphazard, lo-fi end result that we ended up with. I ended up working in a group with 8 other students and we found it kind of difficult initially to think of an idea that we wanted to roll with. We were given the theme of fake memories but we didn’t really want to go down a political route or deep satire, we wanted to keep it kind of weird and jokey. We were inspired by a video made by the previous year in which they had gone and filmed aldi for their background, so this got us thinking about memories in which supermarkets were involved. We started talking about having our heads as floating objects on the screen, but decided to give them a slight purpose rather than just floating things, so we decided to plan a narrative in which these floating heads were actually fruit being purchased in a shop. After brainstorming a few ideas, including potentially having a bag of heads split and fall onto the ground, and having the heads rolling around the supermarket, we realised these ideas weren’t that realistic and would look kind of shitty so decided on just having someone buy the heads, eat them and then have a trippy experience due to the side effects of these weird head fruits. All in all the outcome is pretty random but it was really fun to play around and make something slightly off topic but kind of relevant…

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