I really enjoyed our group project. For the earthworks, our group wanted to explore the ideas of technology in society today. We also wanted to address the differences between nature shown in real life and nature shown through technology. For the video project, our fairy tale was Little Mermaid. We had our scene be of ursula, when she is turning Ariel into a mermaid. This too played upon the idea of beauty. Our original video clip showed Ben as a mermaid, in the paper tail, wig and tin foil bikini top we made. The clip ends with him about to drink from a glittery cup, a secret potion. The next scene calls for a volunteer and in our presentation we called up a girl to sit in a chair in front of the projector screen. We then showed a video clip where we had recorded us in black moving about in front of the same projector. In our real life presentation, we were once again in all black and moving about the now present girl sitting in the chair. Our projection and our presentation in real life made it so you could not tell what was real and what was reality. We used brushes to look as though we were painting on her, as well as putting the mermaid tail on her and the tin foil bikini. Our group did a good job of making this look believable and we were all pleased with the outcome. You could tell by the reactions of the audience that they thought it looked cool and interesting with all of moving around in black, and the distinction between the video and reality not very clear.
Our group's dynamics were great and it was a very fair division of labor. Everyone contributed to the earthworks photos, as well as the final video project. Generally, we worked on all of it together. Rachel and I did a little more of the camera side of things and Wynonna and Ben did more of the designing of the mermaid tail and such. This worked well for our group, as it used our strengths equally and we were all able to contribute talents that we felt comfortable in. Creating the actual video and then making the final edit was also a collaborative effort and everyone's opinions were in line and very helpful in completing the project.
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