This week marks the start of my Communications journey.
I was assigned workshop 5, (Re)representing Representations, which the course outline told me was a Storyboarding workshop. My expectations revolved around the idea of drawing in a comic strip like fashion and not much else. I was definitely mistaken though.
Instantly, the workshop atmosphere felt fun and lively with the two tutors, Haris and Meeray, bouncing off each other in speech, ideas and personalities.
Haris started the workshop by reading us a quote and starting a philosophical discussion. Meeray then asked each of us to summarise what we had just discussed with a single word. From these responses, we were paired off with the person we would be working with for the next four weeks. We then got told we'd be exploring a particular space on campus as the catalyst for all the work we produced hereafter.
This space was the outdoor area next to Goldstein Hall, adjacent to the quad.
The area was quite dark and dingy, and looked severely underused and in need of revitalisation. Even so, we needed to draw a particular inspiration from the space.
With my partner, we developed a thesis around the ideas of reflection and depth centring around the spaces water feature. It was almost dried up completely, but from a nearby balcony, you couldn't tell. This was because the reflection was so vivid.
It was especially inspiring to note the reversal in depth that a reflection causes. For example, in real life, the trees are above the water, but in the reflection, the water is above the trees.
The tutors responded really well to our idea as well as to our proposition for how we'd model it. We were instantly attracted to the idea of using transparency paper as this best idealises a waters reflection.
The task for next week is to create a 2D representation of our idea.
