What Next Proposal

811.514 SHARED CREATIVE HISTORIES   Proposal information

Share Creative Histories Creative Group Outcome 

Please note this is a ‘living’ document that may evolve, develop and be refined throughout the next few weeks.  As the development of your work occurs you can add or edit as you go along. You do though need to stick with your original point of departure. This is handed in and assessed on Mon Oct 19^th as part of your proposal and pitch session. With additions/developments your group hands this in again at the end of the course as reference for assessing your outcome. 

Name of your group: What Next?

List members of your group (full names):

Barbara Neemia

Katie Dzaferic

Courtney Leona

Carol Seu

Indicate your point of departure – tick one

• Projects the future. 

• Reverses something in some way.

• Responds to a well known existing creative outcome.

• Your own creative framework/brief.  Give details here

Series of photographs that will help inspire people to do more than react, but rather act positively towards scandal happening in our community, thus helping project the positive potential of the community in the future. 

Describe in two or three sentences your conceptual angle or ‘take’ on this topic

Create a series of photographs of scandal happening in the community with written recordings of reactions and feelings of people that see them.  As we make aware the local scandals in the community to do with issues such as poverty and violence, we hope to help people take action in a positive way; taking a negative issue and creating a positive outcome by doing more good service in the community.

The intention of our work is to

help people act upon the reactions that they have to scandal that they see in the community, through positive service.  

We’ve experienced that when we do see scandal, we feel prompted to do something for only a short while, the prompting to help change the negative situation leaving us as soon as we received it.  We know that our thoughts lead to words, our words lead to action and actions make up our character. So our intention is to help be a catalyst in creative positive characters in the community by helping people to adopt the motto that we’ve come up with which is ‘if you don’t see good than DO GOOD’ as well as ‘do more than react. ACT’ 

Plan

We plan to make (say what you envisage your end product will be)

Everyone in our group will be photographing the different scandals that we see in our daily lives, which we will then collect all together. we then will filter through the photos, picking the best 4 to edit and place up around the MIT campus. 

We then will have a “reaction paper” that will have the questions:

1. One word that describes your first reaction to the photo

2. What are you going to do now about it?

we will then make posters with both the photo and the reactions next to them which we will place around the campus in the hopes of having people be reminded to spread good in the community. 

Research resources

Make a list (that you will add to) of relevant books, articles, performances, web pages or any other things that are relevant to your ideas. 

Famous photos throughout history online- google search

Recorded reactions of people to photos 

Technical Requirements/budget

(list any equipment/facilities, workshops, skills you need to swap or expand on to achieve this)

DSLR Cameras

Smart phone cameras

Photoshop skills (editing etc)

Photography skills (lighting, composition) 

Creative writing skills- mottos, catch phrase on posters 

Group dynamic/roles

In this collaborative project, outline each person’s role in the team or draw a diagram that describes the shape of your collborative group and how it will function to achieve your goal. 

Group Name and Project (The Street Walkers)  Project  The Day in a Life of an Empathetic Psychopath in a loving world. 

“What Next?”

Please indicate what actions, activities or functions you performed with your group to make your end of term creative project a success:

Photographers :everyone (main- Barbara, Katie, Carol)

Photograph editor: Courtney

Setting up Photos and reaction papers around school: everyone.

TIMELINE: Create some mileposts for yourself, taking into account the sessions when we have class and how you will use your self directed time/set up meetings etc. Write in here key mileposts to achive your goal.

week 4: photograph scandal in our lives

week 5: monday- filter through photos and print them off, ready to post up on wednesday or asap

week 6: gather reactions and start making posters

week 7: project presentation.

Week 3

Oct 12

BRIEFING/PRESENTATION CREATIVE CHALLENGE

Open Source Technologies session

Oct 14

PROPOSAL AND PITCH DEVELOPMENT – assessment recap – discussion about what needs to be done.

Defining the project – equipment resources  space – project planning

Week 4

Oct 19

PROPOSAL/PITCH DUE

Presentation of pitch by each group

Oct 21

GROUP WORK

First supervisor meetings for each group 

Week 5

Oct 26

Labour Day

Oct 29

GROUP WORK

Second supervisor meetings for each group

Week 6

Nov 2

GROUP WORK

Third supervisor meetings for each group

nov 3- group critiques 

Nov 5

GROUP WORK

Fourth supervisor meetings for each group

Week 7

Nov 9

Project Presentation 

Nov 11

Project Presentation

Week 8

Nov 16

Documentation workshop and peer assessment

Nov 18

Hand in all documentation work books/ blogs notes

Shared lunch

Students signatures: Date: