Week 7 - Tutorial Task

Our group met up again this week to talk about what we have come up with. We are able to use Christina’s Macbook pro which has I Movie. Christina played us some sounds that she’s been working on; from a scary computer voice to the Nokia phone ring and some scary music that we can use.  I was able to download some photos that we could use of computers and I phones exploding, however we have since learnt that we will need to do an advanced search on Creative Commons so the 20 photos I have found will need to be discarded and I will have to start again.  A strict modified search will allow us to the full rights to use pictures as the ones that I have downloaded have a copyright. I have found some newspaper articles in regards to e-dumping and what people are doing to help in the quest to lessen the impact. I also read another interesting newspaper article about the death of a Chinese man whose I Phone exploded in his pocket which resulted in his death (Ikram 2011). After reading through the newspaper articles as a group we have come up with a further plan of for the movie and are going to include an environmental theme of e-dumping rather than just focus on it being a scary movie where technology is angry about being upgraded, used and abused. The message will now go a lot deeper and it can be a warning to people to think twice before upgrading as our planet is becoming a cesspit.   Lisa was able to download part of a documentary from Real Player Download-Converter about e-dumping. We have edited this at just under 30 seconds. It is a very significant part of the movie as it has a clear message about what happens to our technology after is no longer needed. 

We met up again this afternoon to do some filming but were unable to find a spare room to film in so we started discussing how our storyline would go and commenced writing our script.

Reference:

Ikram 2011, ‘It’s all about new Technology’, <http://euro-tech.blogspot.com/2007/07/exploding-motorola-phone-kills-chinese.html>