Wasting time on facebook
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Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Thursday, 19 November 2015
Friday, 4 April 2014
The pictures in this video represent about 6 hours
of time, there are pictures taken for about 24 hours but to fit them into a
small video was challenging and lost the reference to snapchat where you view
each picture for a few seconds. I shortened the video so it fit the length of
the conversation.
My idea for the conversation was that it would be
the real conversation of what I was talking to people in the video. Here you see
I spend all my time texting on my phone or on facebook on my laptop. However it
seemed boring to have rather dull pictures of me sitting or laying not doing
very much with rather dull text about eating food and kind of describing what I
am doing.
To answer this I made up a whole story in text messages of how I
bought a dragon and a whole load of impossible and improbable things. However
there are lots of references in the text in the video to our relationship, for example the
dragons name is Harvey, which is her dog’s name. The strange tale contrasts
with what I actually happening, which is of course me sat on my bed eating
noodles and messaging with people online.
The idea for the comments on online presence and
online conversation in modern times was influenced by during the course of this
project I were sat in a room with some friends, all of whom where on their
laptops and talking to each other via facebook on there rather than in person.
It seemed insane to me and it was like a scene from a comedy show like IT crowd
where they are all sat in a room talking on an online media website, come true.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3NmVLYR5pg Here is the clip from IT Crowd of Friendface.
I took pictures as no-one was talking to me and I didn’t want to have to talk
to them on facebook when we were all right there, my go to fallback plan is
always take pictures whatever situation I am in. When I took the pictures I did not mean for them to be
flattering, in-fact I meant them pictures as I saw them, unflattering and capturing quick moments in time of people caught off-guard; sitting there drinking and insulting each
other via online media did not seem like a good time.
Looking at some of the
people involved I can see they smile and appear happy when engaging with the
laptop and the group activity of insulting each other in a conversation, but
when they look to their phone or are in thought away from the activity they do
not look like they are enjoying themselves, they look sad.
The act of being
socially involved and talking online were like a front for how they really
felt. I made these shots after I had made my first ‘Snapchat Narrative’ and as
feeling rather stuck on what I could be doing for a digital piece, before I
made my 24hours video.
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