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Published on Friday, 17. November 2006, 18:29.
About: my web app, visualisation

Don't see how I want to use pictures and film yet. I definitely don't want to use them the way they are but include them into something drawn myself.
My visual material will have to reflect different aspects of history, the education system, ... as well as interviews and photos of modern Poland - all that I want to express in one visual language.

The interviews will be the main part of my web application. From the interviewees I want to learn how they came about and what it is like to work in Poland. I want to learn about the challenges as well as about the rewards.
Though I focus on the individual stories I don't want to show the interviewee talking the whole time or even at all. My emphasis lies on the content. I want the interviewees to remain rather anynomous and don't want to merely draw attention on their faces. Thus I rather want to use the voices combined with some kind of animation.

Comment

5 Comments:

elisabeth harms at Sunday, 19. November 2006, 13:23

Using a circle as the main visual element suggests either that what you want to communicate is a unit in itself or - and this is somewhat negetative - that there is no progress and everything goes back to its origin. Naturally you may explain the significance of visual element. As far as I can see it you do not really intend to make it a full circle but rather segments of it - and this, I believe, makes sense , as the different segments constitute a complete unit (in an ideal case). Here you may come back to the logo you developed for Eight Columns, or am I mistaken?
As far as the interviews are concerned is it posssible to present shots of working places / programs while the answers of the interviewed are heard?

elisabeth harms, Sunday, 19. November 2006, 13:25

You will have to find an agreement with those interviewed if they want their names, faces etc. published or not.

julerennt, Sunday, 19. November 2006, 19:04

yep. I know. That's one of the points why I don't want to use "real" video. After all Marie was right summarizing that my web app is not about presenting the lifes of individual expatriates but to give examples of working and living abroad ...

janet at Monday, 20. November 2006, 15:27

It made me think of the style of Arte: Karambolage. Well its not really complicated content they explain but they keep their style for various fields.

elisabeth harms at Tuesday, 21. November 2006, 19:40

Janet is perfectly right. Try to watch Karambolage once. They show different subjects and they are introduced by something like a cartoon in action.