Week 6 - Tutorial Task

We chose our groups this week about the short movie we are to make over the next few weeks. I will be teamed with Christina Earnshaw & Lisa Townley. Our brainstorming session involved several ideas to see what everyone was thinking in regards to the content for our movie.  The first theme we were considering was going to be about an online dating service. This would include three people talking about their experience in the dating world, however we did not follow through with this idea as we thought our next idea would be more fun to create.

Technology fights back. A trailer for a scary movie about technology being upset about being used and abused. This would involve new communication technologies trying to kill a man who was continuously upgrading and disposing of his old technology. From phones to computers; technology will gang up on this ‘upgrader’ to the point where it could result in his death.

In regards to sourcing material, we have decided to film the majority of this film. We are thinking about technology going wrong & filming scenes such as the cord of the mouse wrapping itself around the victim’s neck, a computer typing death threats into the keypad and have the words appear on the screen much to the horror of the victim and a phone talking to the man whilst he is trying to dial.  We will also need to download pictures of technology exploding to put into the movie as we are going to have a series of photos flashing in front of the man on the computer.

Our Tutor, Lauren spoke to us about issues regarding copyright and how we could get around it. We learnt about a site where you can share information called Creative Commons. This means that if we use material from this site whether it be photos or videos that we may need for our short movie; we wouldn’t have to reference the material that we embedded in our project as People can upload their work so that it can be shared with others may wish to use the material.  Under the Creative Commons licence, exclusive rights of one’s work are surrendered and shared amongst the public, giving others freedom to use the material on this site without having to credit the work of the artist (Creative Commons 2011).

Reference:

Creative Commons 2011,Creative Commons legal Code viewed 3 September 2011 via

<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode>.