Spatialised

Communication

This entry will be talking about the unit spatialised practices and outlining the theme of the project.

The theme is communication and the impact it has on the understanding of the message.
The methodology of communication can alter the the meaning of the message in so far as the individuals interpretation of the communication and its intended meaning/s.

I will deliberatly create a non speaking piece, this is to ensure that thre viewer has to concentrate on other forms of communication and thus place them unwittingly into a state of creating meaning of the film through individual interpretation rather than verbal explanation.

Within this unit I intend to create a film that has a meaning of mis-communication, a film that conveys a message of communication through different forms of communication. A message of interpretation but also of communication challenge where the viewer is asked by the film 'how hard is this to understand?' and in doing so may ask themselves 'do some people always find it this hard to communicate?'

I will judge the success of the film by a response comment sheet given to those who view the finished piece.

The film will comprise of a number of communicating elements, film footage, audio, text. Within these elements a range of communicating devices will be used.

Film

• Facial expressions


• Gestures


• Sign Language


• Moving background

This is to show the viewer different forms of non-verbal communication that is used within society.

Text

• Translated phrases concerned with communication in various languages


• Positioned through the film and using different text parameters - font, colour, size, position


• Animating the text - opacity, movement, speed

This is to show the viewer that language and reading can be seen as communicators or barriers dependant on the viewers 'normal' mode of reading. The animation forces them to visually track the text and places a time constraint for interpretation of what the text is and what it means.

Audio

• Verbal noise - crowd babble


• Whispered phrases


• Daily living noises

This will give the viewer a further sensory point of communication to interpret and link to the visual material.

The point is not to baffle, confuse or produce an incoherent film but to encourage the viewer to feel a sensory overloading of stimuli. When we watch TV all three elements can be on screen at the same time - french subtitled film for example - but the order that the filmmakers place them makes them coherent and easy to simultaneously interpret. My point is that this happens in real life all the time for most people. However, some people find life to be more like the film I have produced, all the time.

They live with and try and communicate through a wash of sensory input that is not just limited to audio and visual but extends to smell, taste and touch also.

Please watch this video and you will get a new understanding of communicating. It feels a bit random at the start but stick with it for an alternative view on communication.

I saw this video and it struck me just how much communication and the normal perception of effective communication is taken for granted. Also it shamed me into the knowledge that I have judged individuals talents and characters by their ability to communicate in a preconceived normal way. Communication is stereotyped to class,creed, abilities, intelligence and social status, but it does not define who we are, it is simply a methodology of conveying thoughts and ideas.



The thoughts and ideas are what define who we are. (end of sermon [make of that what you will])