This tutorial left me with feelings of empathy with the retired community, cruelly branded by society as 'digital immigrants'... I have now added several notches to my utility belt, however, since facing up to my stubborn ignorance of the Bluetooth phenomenon.
The task for this session was to create a stop-motion film from a rather brief brief - a film title. When those with photo-capable mobile phones had been identified, several amateur three-man film crews were let loose on the Gold Coast campus. My touch screen Samsung graduated from text-exclusive to super-shooter in the space of half an hour – a timeframe that made for a very tight shooting schedule and limited creativity.
Our film title (So Far From Home) had us shadowing our protagonist, - a lost university student desperately searching for his class - from the Griffith University Bridge to the UniBar.
Using our new-found understanding of shot framing and composition, we took the time to ensure that Peter, our disoriented hero, always occupied the left or right thirds of the frame. Several artsy shots of Peter descending a staircase gave us the opportunity to play with tilting the horizon within the frame. We even threw in a little product placement for Coke dispenser machines.
Close ups of clocks, inserts of campus maps, and wide/long shots of various locations were used to establish the setting and narrative of the film.
Although un-prepped audiences (in the unlikely event of someone other than my mother viewing our You Tube video) might miss the subtleties, and, well… the basic plot of the film, I felt that the process of making this film demonstrated the power of a well-framed image to tell a story.
The real games began when we returned to the computer lab. Several fellow Sparkies, Jules included, stepped in to assist me in setting up my phone for Bluetooth for the first time. Collaborative troubleshooting had us frantically changing settings, setting up connections, moving files, and sharing codes, until, true to form, the phone died.
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