I realise i have been possibly leaving out a lot of vital information that has happened to me and flash in the past few weeks but oh well i've forgotten it all now. So i will just go with what is relevant in the here and now...
THE ESSAY
I really have very limited ideas about what will be going on in my essay. My first visions were on something to do with domestic photography because I am really interested in it. Perhaps using some photos from my childhood as links etc because 1980's photographs have such a creepy quality to them. But i realise i have done something similar to this before in a previous assignment where i documented the divorce of my parents in a photo album, obviously this was not multimedia though and was for a cultural theory class. But i think i may have already used up most of my good ideas in that assignment and left not much for this one... But that was not using any old photos of my own but rather ones that i manufactured etc. And i do love those old photos.
So i re-read through the er makeshift 'assignment sheet' for it and tried to get inspiration or at least general understanding. I paid close attention to the idea that we make it like an online documentary. I started thinking about aspects of docos etc and how i could possibly do this without a video camera etc. Oh how i wish i hadn't lost all my old footage from highschool that i made... that would be perfect. But a doco on what?? I really have no idea. At the moment i am thinking to broad, such as "Alinta's Useful Advice on Almost Everything". I am currently doing a midsemester intensive on children's books and all the titles of the books have this sort of quirky worldly aura to it. Maybe i could think of something more compact such as 'Alinta's Semi-Useful Advice on 'insert word', 'insert word' and 'insert word'. Maybe then I could make the argument that my site has a particular demographic such as teenagers. I am interested in the picture book for older readers at the moment and this could be used in my essay in terms of structure as the text could be relatively advanced yet it could be filled with pictures and other um fun stuff.
but i'm not sure if this would be seen as somehow not academic enough to be an 'essay'. I'm sure i could make it as academic as possible but at the same time I would like to use myself as an example and make it relative to people of my own age and my own mental level. In other words make it for ME but, no, I am sure there are others like me both younger and older who may enjoy what i have to say. In this way i could make ideas usually seen in essays more easily accessible and interesting. Such as how Janette Winterson talks about quantum physics in her book Gut Symmetries which is about a lesbian love triangle, and funnily enough, making physics poetic and entwined in narrative really makes it accessible and marvelously interesting. Of course this is not a children's book I'm just jumping all over the place right now.
THE FOLIO
Now for this one i am supposed to make up some kind of amazingly original interface to put my work into. Very very daunting! I suppose i can do something that sums everything up and even make the interface of each page relate to the work it encompasses etc but no that’s stupid and i just can't think of any cool ideas. how can i bleed my work into the interface itself?? Is interface the right word even?? Was the very final day to hand it in week 14 or week 15?? All these questions are clouding my head. I don't know what to do. I still hate flash today just as much as i did the first day i walked into that dreaded 3.34 room. Does this mean i haven't grown over the course of the subject? Will i be marked down for this? Do i have to write 'i love flash' on my work to elude to the fact that i HAVE understood it like i did with my science assignments in grade 6?
I need GUIDENCE
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I tried to do one of the two tutorials tonight from the email a couple of days ago. It's a scrolling thangamajig. I feel as though i have done it correctly but it just isn't happening. I don't know where i have gone wrong because the action script is a cut and paste job from the tutorial. So i can't go and say "oh i have my action script wrong, chortle". So i suppose my only option is to try it all over again but i feel a little low on the drive to continue with it. My other option is to... nope actually i don't have another option.
