Feedback and Inputs

For over a week now we had been producing our videos and been working on our project without having received any feedback or inputs. We felt a bit uncertain in some areas and were looking forward to the presentation in the afternoon - in the past, the inputs we had received from our mentors and co-students had helped us in figuring out where we had to improve on.

We received some great feedback when it came to the exhibition. Up until now, we had planned on using one screen, on which the stories would be shown with a dramaturgy. We had previously looked into using several screens within a room (see chapter Getting back on Track) but had initially decided against them. Now, however, we also presented the idea of placing the screens in public spaces, instead of in an exhibit room, allowing more people to walk past and come across the international's stories.

During the presentation we understood that placing one screen in a public space was the right decision to make, however, one screen alone is not enough - by using several, each with a different story running, we could create more of an experience. Our audience can walk through the university and stumble upon these screens and the stories of the internationals. We had created a very distinguishable layout and setting in our video which connects the screens visually even if they were placed in different places - in other words, the audience would be able to recognise these screens and be intrigued to explore all the others.

We also received some inputs referring to the flow of the subtitles - by separating sentences so that the subtitles was exactly synched to what the international was saying, the subtitles had become too fast and too stagnant to read. This needed to be corrected.

With only one day left, we knew we had a lot of work ahead of us.