Transvespionage

Although I did find the experience to be fun in terms of creativity with a very “exquisite corpse” sort of approach, I do not think I would partake in the experience twice.

The main problems that I feel made the project very difficult was the lack of structure regarding plots that would help future directors continue the story and the general lack of due dates/direction. The experience would almost benefit by having fewer people in the positions of photography and director.

Writing, I believe, definitely benefited from multivocality, but for photography and directing it only proved to create quite a mess. It took people far too long to decide upon a plot and then to guide the photographers (which often ended up being one photographer and one person just hanging out).

With the speed in which we needed/wanted to produce the blog, there just wasn’t enough time to produce something of real quality. I feel often times that we just threw something together and called it a day. Something which might explain the need for a total recovery day, when no one knew what was going on or what the story was about.

In the future, I would think it would be beneficial to slow the process down and perhaps allow for a think-tank process, where the whole class could collaborate on a story and then day-by-day create it through photography, writing, and perhaps even video. I do think the idea has promise, but, because this was the first attempt, it would benefit from a critical analysis of what went well vs. poorly. Then we could regroup and perchance create something incredible.