Feb
27
Project ideas
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My initial idea for the class project was to create a store using Half.com and Ebay.com. Although I will not throw that idea out completely, I have a hard time imagining exactly how I can connect our readings with E-commerce. I’m not saying that it would be impossible, but I’d have to be creative or look at E-commerce from a different perspective to relate it with the ideas of Engelbart, McLuhan, Bush, etc.
So I went back to the drawing board and began brainstorming some other potential ideas for the class project. I began thinking about the creative possibilities of using Youtube:
1) My life-long dream has always been to direct a movie, so perhaps if I could write a script of “The Garden of Forking Paths,” then I could recreate the story into live-action (be aware that I am no expert by any stretch of the imagination in directing, editing, or cinematography. I only have one sister, mom, and dad who might be willing to contribute in terms of performance and cinematography). If I do go down this path, then expect a very amateurish job. However, the skills I’ll learn along the way will be more valuable than the final outcome.
2) Along those lines, the McLuhan video we watched in class also piqued my interest and engendered some creative ideas. I spend most of my time on Youtube viewing spoofs of anything I’m familiar with, whether it is a song, a movie, show, etc. I believe I could come up with a comical spoof of the McLuhan video and could play many different characters from the video, from the guy who starts the video in the green, suburban atmosphere, to interviewers, to McLuhan’s friends and family, to McLuhan himself. Each character would have their own costume and unique personality. I’ll have to flesh out the idea a bit more, but I think I could pull it off with some degree of success because the success of the video would be dependant on the personality of each character, rather than the production elements.
McLuhan himself was spoofing so you’d have to be spoofing a spoof!
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