Creative Media Practice: Triptych & Multiscreen

Triptych & Multiscreen

Thursday 3rd October 2013

To start off our Creative Media Practice we had a short introduction into the module and the individual tasks. After the short introduction we then moved into our first task ‘Triptych & Multiscreen’ discussing screen narrative, split screen, we spoke about how images using spilt screen can tell a story without doing anything, to prove this we where shown examples of images. We were also shown a variety of films using spilt screens. 

Once the discussion about Triptych & Multiscreen was completed we where given our mini brief. Our brief is to; come up with a narrative that plays across three screens. So to start off our brief we had to come with ideas and also to develop our concept before we could start planning our narrative and creating the triptych. As a small group we came up with a few ideas;

• Real Life vs Reality
• Bad Day (POV of a persons bad day)
• Phone Call
• Peoples View on Reality & The world around

We decided on the Bad Day (POV) idea, so we began to create our story board & shot lists, so we could just grab a camera and start capturing the clips we need. We also choose specific locations for each part of the narrative. So after planning we started filming with the time left we had, then uploaded all the clips ready to edit and start to build our triptych. 

Friday 4th October 2013

As we had all our clips uploaded on the PC, we decided to recap how to use After Effects, once we had the hang of After Effects again editing our Triptych became so much easier. But as we only started editing the same morning as the deadline we didn’t have enough time to make everything perfect for our Triptych, but as a group we where made up to get all our clips into the sequence, even if it is without audio as we thought we wouldn’t complete the sequence in time. As this mini brief was only set for us to find out which software and techniques we would like to use for our final project, I enjoyed creating the triptych and using After Effects. But if I decide to do Triptych again I think one main point I will make sure I do is to do a schedule, so that I have a certain about of time to focus on specific tasks needed to create the Triptych e.g; clips, audios, effects. Below is our YouTube Triptych video;