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After this months, we are proud to say that we have finished with this project. Shaping the idea wasn’t easy, but meeting by meeting, we haven’t just polished our idea, but also we have been able to aim for something more ambitious than the original plan. This group has been solid, having pre assigned roles but maintaining a collective participation in every aspect of the making. The feedback received by our professor on the tutorials has been useful, letting us return to the correct path in all the moments we have been lost, or unsure, about how to move forward with this project. We have almost achieved the aesthetic we wanted, considering how ambitious we have become with the project. We have to consider that we have used diverse methods to accomplish our goals, including: microscope moving images, installation, 16mm filming, stop motion and fragmentation of the images through mirrors. This is the final result, where we hope our idea, for the viewer, is reflected in the most honest way we have tried.
As we have been discussing in the tutorial and showing everyday on our research blog, the idea we have tried to reflect in this project is the progressive transformation of humanity into digital beings. In a society that frequently imagines a future where bodies are augmented and technology is on top of everything, we have tried to show the viewers how this future is here and is happening now. We might not have a bionic arm with extraordinary capacities for lift weights, but almost 3 billions of people in the planet have a device the size of a wallet that offers you information about everything at any time. How we have started to live connected, changing the way we interact which each other, is a topic that comes more often than usual nowadays, but that still needs to be argued and considered, making us, members of this society, the first subjects to question how the world is changing because of technology.
We could have improved:
- Criticise a fact without offer any solutions to it in our piece of work.
- The layout of the piece it could be better, as we have some external elements (the table covering the mirrors, wires around, devices are visible for the viewers) that they wouldn’t fit If we were exhibiting this piece in a professional gallery.
- Transitions could have been more progressive, since there are times in the piece where we pass in between concepts more sudden than desired.
- We could have been more prepared with the shooting parts, fixable with the making of a solid storyboard.
- Using of velcro for attach the mirrors in order to follow health and safety protocols.
- Organisation in between team members, specially in the first weeks.
We did well:
- We have successfully finished a complex project that includes multiple filming techniques, being able to combine them in a harmonious way.
- The sound has been carefully selected and edited, with satisfactory results.
- Even when the installation itself has some non aesthetics elements, the composition of the mirror set is pleasant for the viewer, creating a sort of magical effect.
- After major issues organising ourselves, we have improved excellently our communication with each other by the end of the project.
- We have worked well as a team having and equal amount of responsibility.
Criticisms of the unit:
- Lectures where useful after the third one, after, all we have done has been to repeat the same lecture over and over, just watching different bodyworks. The module needs to change the next year, decreasing the number of lectures we had and increasing the number of workshops, focusing in learn film techniques or ways to produce a film (for example, how to create a set, how to play the different roles of a movie or how to use different experimental techniques used by the great artist of the genre).
Transcendence 