Contrary

This week's brief is to produce a short video (1-2 mins) and a poster which is based to a word assigned to the group. Unfortunately I did not have the chance to start the week strong because I missed the first day which was a significant day to generate and share ideas with each member of my group due to the storm that shut down central line and it was the only way I can get to the city. However I received an email which has the group list therefore I have given a chance to talk to some of the group members online the next day and ask them what ideas do they have planned. 

The word assigned to my group is "contrary" and during the self direct studies I did a little research. First i tried to search what the definition was to widen my understanding and to also generate some ideas from the word associated with the word. 

then I tried to search some images that best describe the topic like this dog that said "meow"

I also watched a short video that I came across during my research. 

The next day I finally catch up on the work. The aim was to plan and to produce a story board of the video and hopefully also film it. This is a short version of what happened that day.

My group consisted of people who had a strong opinion and passion on the thing they believe in therefore we couldn't decide on what should be the main focus of the video because we don't agree with the same ideas. However at the end of that day we manage to came up with a plan and presented it to the class.

On my second SDS the whole team decided to meet up and shoot the video, unfortunately only half of the group can make it so we had to do some adjustment. We scratched the whole plan and just created something out of the blue but still on point to the theme. We edited the video half of the video on that day and decided to continue editing the next day so that we can have the other half's input as well.

During that day I have taken the opportunity to develop some ideas about my poster after shooting the video

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I have chosen to show contrary in a very obvious way which used colour variation suggesting the opposite 

This is the end product. The video doesn't have any dialog instead it has background music which we think contradicts the action of the person. It also has added text, edit in to also contradict the fact that it doesn't have any dialog. 

I help edit the video and in my personal opinion we did a good job. We have portrayed the meaning of the word we we're assigned with and that is the objective. Although the team did have differences we still manage to came up with a video and through this experience I have also learn to share ideas to a group of people and execute a result which I am proud of