When thinking about an interview, the first thing that pops into my mind is how to make people comfortable talking and responding to questions. So I decided to film the interview before the interviewees took a seat before the camera to capture all the gestures and reactions during the experience.
One of the main points of interest and research for my upcoming undefined thesis is the teaching-learning process in children and adults, so when thinking of a consistent question to ask my cohort, how do you learn came up quickly.
It is rare for people to think about an automated process that we do; almost no one stops for a minute and thinks about the best learning tools or strategies to better understand a concept. This was an exhilarating experience for me as I watched and studied my peers’ answers, and I hope it was an interesting one for my friends as well.
DESIGN PROCESS
When it came to the aesthetics of the Video, I honed in on the idea of making it very personal by adding my own handwriting and converting it into gifs to be able to add captions referring to the learning process each of my peers mentioned. I also added humorous comments to the intro and outro to engage the audience in what was happening.
The real hard work came when trying to pair different learning types between people to make the video more enjoyable, fast-paced, and easy to watch. I decided to write keywords each interviewee said during their interview and color code them to create groups of like-minded answers.
After this time-consuming process of grouping, I had to overcome the hurdle of working with audio, which I feel I need to be more confident in. When multiple people talked simultaneously, I had to isolate the keyword I wanted to highlight by raising the levels and lowering the rest of the noise. At the same time, I had to stagger the answers one after the other so that the raising and lowering volumes come together in a rhythmic way to highlight the important words. I had a system going where one, two, or four people spoke simultaneously and alternated them, so the video’s pacing was upbeat and engaging.
The final piece ended up being niece evidence of my cohort and how we learn at a school of visual arts.
