Diaries: A Translation of One's Thoughts (Visual Essay Project)
Brief In groups of 3 or 4, create a video essay or experimental documentary. Based on the theme of ‘Collection’. This should be between three and five minutes and should include visuals and voiceover (that you produce). A team of 4 consisting of me, Lucy, Blanca and Yang, we brainstormed on some ideas of what topic we should focus on. At first, we were a little dumbfounded when we were given the project. We were given such a short period of time to come up with a topic and was quite worried about whether we could meet the criteria at first. Creating a visual essay from scratch was a little intimidating because we have never done it before but I was excited. I personally enjoy watching visual essays on Youtube. Brainstorming Figure 1. Mind map Figure 2. From Yang's iPad, our team brainstorming ideas We started drawing a mind map of stuff that we have collected previously from our Collection Project. Just jotting down random topics that could possibly come to mind ...