A lot of what I use in workshops goes back to a group I got going at the Open University called the PV-OU Research Circle. Often we'd find ourselvs trying things out without quite knowing where we were going. Getting stuck and improvising was extremely productive and many fine ideas like 'evil interviews' were born.
The video logo exercise dates from a little later, but had the same quality. At a departmental training for making new media I found myself with a very short patch to fill and came up with the idea of asking the same simple question to a set of people talking directly to camera with pretty much the same shot. The result sat on the front page of the departmental web page for a good two years and I still enjoy showing it as an example of what's possible in a very short time.
It works by following a sequence of short questions, and editing so the answers are almost superimposed.
This time around we combined it with a title sequence from the disappearing game, which has the same punchy feel to make something that quickly gets across a feel for the who the group are and some of the energy and feelings at work.
It works by following a sequence of short questions, and editing so the answers are almost superimposed.
This time around we combined it with a title sequence from the disappearing game, which has the same punchy feel to make something that quickly gets across a feel for the who the group are and some of the energy and feelings at work.
great!
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