Joanne's Journal

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 ...

This is a continuation from the blog post, "Introduction to Mail Art Project". - Brief For this project, we were supposed to create a card/object that we would like to send back home. The theme is a response to something that I have accomplished during the last 2 months. Just like any other project, I was lost at first. When we were posed with this question, "What have you accomplished during the last 2 months in London?", I was speechless. Frankly, I did not know what I accomplished because I was so caught up with school projects and just trying to adapt to life in London. I decided to pen down my thoughts first before even coming up with an idea for a project. Penning down thoughts in my sketchbook. After penning down my thoughts, I realised that accomplishments do not have to be physical. Looking back at the past 2 months, I realised there's nothing that could dictate that I have accomplished something. There were no medals, trophies or certific...