Week 6 - Tutorial Task

The challenge over the next three weeks (week 6, week 7, week 8) is to produce one or more short audio-visual pieces, preferably with a new communication technology theme, while all the time blogging about your experiences.

This week do a short report on different production tools that you might use and explain your basic concept in one sentence. Keep in mind

1) How you can add elements that you have created (photos, music, video from your phone etc) into the production,

2) Problems you may have with copyright over elements that you did not create and

3) The dangers of defamation (saying or implying something that harms another's reputation).

As I was unable to make it to the week 6 tutorial, I had to wait till the next week to be put into our groups. The next week however once we were put into groups, we began brainstorming and initially came up with two ideas; the first idea was to interview people about their thoughts on the neural implants and if they would be open to the idea. We then realised, however, that we would be limited to interviewing other students studying ‘New Communication Technology’ as they will be roughly the only ones with any idea of the pros and cons of neural implants.

The other idea was the one we decided was most appropriate and logical. We plan to research in the form of interviews and find out how individuals respond to the privacy of Facebook and the impact this has on their personal life. We will be using films to create our production. Based on our brief concept at the moment, it appears that we will not have any problems with copyright as we are not using anyone else’s material. We will be however, asking our interviewees if they are happy to be recorded when answering our questions, so we can use their responses in our production.