Blog 2

Action plan going forward-

-Storyboard plan going forward
-Sound test (picture within show)
-Post production image test
-Identify timecodes for ripping/editing
-ID ripping method & confirm working practice
-Research Theoretical context

I'm currently examining the potential narratives going forward with a view to creating my initial storyboards, or at least some samples for the test video. Currently my idea is moving towards examining shared screen cultures, both within fictional characters and in the actual audience, so we might see persons from a TV show and an actual audience watching the same material and understanding the same references. So this might be less about a direct linear loop and more about people's interactions around TV shows, comparing and contrasting and seeing how different people explore these shows. My framing device is still likely to be a youtube video of someone videoing themselves watching TV, but now I'm thinking of exploring shared cultures looping out from this person, show someone else watching the same show in a different place and then maybe have them typing and responding to each other and others through message boards and texts. If I can develop a storyboard even examining the first few minutes it would be ideal. It might be about the framing character becoming more than just that, being the epicentre of us exploring this concept as we see potential emotional consequences or positives of living only through screen culture. It's a diverse world to explore, perhaps more so than many people realize but in terms of real world interaction it does create limits. There is also the question of how to make text on screen interesting, perhaps using text noises and then close-up responses of the phone as messages are read and responses are generated. I'd also aim to utilize a more complex depiction of that aspect, so inclusive of facebook and twitter as well. The aim is to get the audience to recognize from their own experience how diverse our everyday use of these technologies is.

The intermingling of fictional and factual shows, news reports, sport, video games, internet, mobiles provides a wide base for exploration beyond just TV shows, I could explore people for instance responding as though playing a beat-em-up game on a console and using controllers but the actual footage they're watching is from a sitcom and their responses, usually to punches or wins, would instead be to verbal interactions.

Perhaps those additional layers will be the way this interaction is dictated, instead of screens within screens and recontextualising footage I could create narratives around these different players as long as I can create dynamic ways of representing each screen format. I plan to create some storyboard ideas surrounding both potential approaches, that way if the screen format issues of using multiple additional programs in conjunction with each other I have an idea with a similar basis to fall back on.