This week in Serra class we learnt about the importance of collaboration.
We looked at interesting ways and techniques that other creatives worked together, like the gamification of collaboration. We looked at an example of the characters Rick and Morty and how individual animators used their unique style of animation to put together one piece together. Although their individual styles were totally different they came together to create something really interesting.
Serra used this example to show us how important collaboration is and techniques to help collaboration be successful.
I learnt that that to have successful collaboration you need,
Clear communication
Openess
Transparency
Exquisite Corpse
We did an exquisite corpse with each other. The rules for these were to fold the paper into three pieces and to only draw on one of the folds, after that we had to leave a bit of a line after the fold to indicate where the next person should draw next. We were given a theme for each paper and told to draw the first thing that came to our mind.
Class Game
We then had to team up and create a game for others in the class
I chose the game where we had to use the pumpkin Instagram filter and every sentence you say has to have the word pumpkin in it. After you record it you send the picture to your friend.
Choosing a group
Before we decided on groups we looked at potential topic ideas given to us by our lecturers on a Padlet board. Out of all the topics, the one that stood out to me was Utopia /dystopia. I chose Utopia and dystopia due to my love of scifi/dystopian films/ tv like Alien, Mad Max Fury Road, Futurama, The Matrix etc.
After we chose what subject we wanted, the plan was to meet with the other courses in those groups. On the Friday we had a session where all the courses got together and found other people who also liked the same topics we chose in the Padlet. We quickly found a group that wanted to do an immersive experience with the dystopian theme at the forefront of the narrative.
We loved Shirza concept idea which was a dystopian immersive experience where the user walks around specific monuments of areas/ cities around the world. They discover amazing creatures and have music and lights guiding the journey.
The group was Myself, 3D Computer Animation
Shizra Manzar, 3D Computer Animation
Donatella Mikulasch, 3D Computer Animation
Neeti Kumar, VR
Ria (Yazhe Li), VR
We quickly set a WhatsApp group and had a meeting set for the following Tuesday.