Blog 12. Development

I have been working hard on the content of my narration. I have decided either to do a riddle or a constant stream of consciousness/thought. The idea of using a riddle means that I can speak about my topic (time) without actually telling the audience what it is and they would have to work it out through the use of my images which by themselves would be incoherent. The problem of using a riddle is that my piece is 3minutes+ long and that could be quite a long time to listen to a riddle. So a similar idea that I could use is this link on vimeo ! It is really interesting to hear her talk so abstractly about something but it really works with the images that is used. So this is another route i could go down but is similar to what i mean by the use of a riddle. 

The other idea of using a constant stream of consciousness means that it could seem more interesting and engage the audience more. The narrator can speak at the same/similar pace to the music that i choose to use. 

I am still to decide which one to use. 

I recently got in touch with the English Department to find out how i could get in touch with someone who would be interested in helping me write my riddle/stream of conscious thought. I eventually spoke with someone in admin from the English Society Group at Leeds University Union. They were really eager to take on the project and I hopefully have a couple of poets wanting to help - the more the merrier!

Not only that, but a co-student on the same dissertation course as me got me in touch with his housemate who composes music. I messaged him via Facebook and again (luckily) received a really positive response. He seemed really keen to compose my music for the piece. I gave him the necessary details such as how long the piece is, the timescale of the project, and what kind of music I was after - I gave him this example . He said he his housemate had shown it to him before and he really liked it. However, he is finding out whether he can use the studio he works at throughout the week, at the weekend - if they'll let him use it alone. If he is not allowed to use it alone, he won't be able to compose the music unfortunately as he has no other way of doing it. Fingers crossed !! 

Dates to remember for development: 

Wednesday 25th February: Meeting with John (module leader) about this new development at 10:00. 

Wednesday 25th February: Hearing back from Peter about the music composition.

Thursday 26th February: Meeting with the poets at 11:00 in one of the student breakout rooms potentially.