BOW ASSIGNMENT 5: OCA PEER HANGOUT MAJOR PROJECT REVIEW

Hangout 1.6.23 OCA Level 3 group non-tutor led

Ahead of this session I sent the following via shared G drive to the group. I asked:

I need most input on the signposting of my ideas – can you access any of my intention with the introduction and limited signposting in the book draft and images?
Can a viewer locate the meaning of a photograph without context?

Themes: Visual language & representation- seeing- metaphors- equivalents- mirrors-symbols

I had some feedback before our meeting from someone looking at the padlet only, without the introduction:

That I don’t need the subtitles such as Sum of its parts and rebirth
Would prefer the poetry to accompany images
Be wary of digital green (quoted Martin Parr) – however I have toned these down from reality, though the viewer like the green as I have presented it.
Suggests signposting my meaning more in the assessment folder with learning objectives – with narrative (video or slide show sharing intentions). So, leaving the book to be interpreted more freely by the viewer.

Following this I made an A4 2 page spread mock up of a book and excluded some subtitles and reordered:

To view as 2 page spread dummy book , downlod and go to view-page display- two page scrolling view

At the hangout we had a long discussion about the work and the images. There were some good challenges and suggestions:

I should include more in the introduction about how CS has influenced this work. Be explicit about the links between this work and my CS work. Make sure also that I have been explicit about the contrast in behaviours of the woodland and human communities.
A suggestion to use the poem for viewers to refer to alongside images
Number the images, if need to reference with material Fig 1…
Like 5:4 crop
Like green
Looks like fine art photography
Check font is all the same
Use pdf in blog but instruct to go to 2 page scrolling view.

The discussion generated some good ideas for taking this work into SYP:

Think of techniques to get viewers to engage with material, flipping back and forth…
As the book seems to be in sections I could put in separate zines in one sleeve
I could place images on a concertina with the poem fixed so it can be seen whilst seeing all
I could caption the images at the back of book leaving viewers space to find their own meaning and have to travel backwards and forwards to explore.
Enhance layers in communities with layers in book? See A2 feedback JT
To emphasis contrast and differences could make bilingual – this may however be too obvious and binary.
Consider ways of collaborating – using other voices

All of this I will consider when I modify my draft final portfolio for submission. I will be take my tutor’s thoughts on board also.

NIKI SOUTH