Drafting

It's the first week of drafting for our practical project, and our group has begun exploring possible ideas as to what to produce. As usual, the three of us have been full of ideas, and we bounced them off each other quite well. It's good to be part of a group where you feel you can voice your opinion.

My initial idea was with all of the projects I've been a part of to date at UWE, I think it's important to try and challenge the definition of what it is we've been asked to do. With this project, the brief itself is rather broad, and almost simply has to relate to ideas and discussions we've had with Web Media in mind, in a produced form.

The initial idea was obviously that most people would make a website, but within our group, we quickly established that we like the idea of video games and how they might relate to the theoretical side of things. Foremost, we are intending to make some sort of interactive video, but with our limited skills in Flash and all of the programs needed to make things work, it may prove difficult.

The key elements to make the video game idea work will be in how we present them in relation to reality. We have established that we think all of the iconography and a sense of exemplifying where the games we choose lie in relation to the timeframe they were released is important. As long as the viewer/user/whatever it is we decide the audience is can easily recognise what it is we're trying to represent, I'll be happy.

With the video itself, I thought it might be a good idea to start off with everything quite blocky and choppy, as if it's of a low pixellation, and as the games move through history, the 'definition' becomes clearer. But this might turn out awful, we'll see. We've spent some 'research time' on watching some bizarre Russian(?) animations on Youtube which pit video game/film characters against eachother in stick-man style fights. I could get used to this...

Next week we are aiming to have a definitive proposal, but for now, I need to put my thinking cap on. Not long until we have to present our ideas to the group.