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Connected the audio and video.
Cut it down.
Hit some speed bumps.
Sean to the rescue.

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"What a cute llama..."

"It was found buried with sacrificed children."

"Uh, that's not very cute."

The induction we had at the Sainsbury Centre prompted a ton of questions and ideas for all of us, but they all kind of converged to the idea of perception.

The way an object is perceived varies from person to person due to factors such as demographic and positionality. Art is no different. That was interesting to all of us.

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The idea was simple. Five drastically different characters. Two pieces of art.

How would these five characters view the art pieces differently?

At the heart of this project, we wanted to convey the idea that there is no wrong way to perceive and understand art. Everybody's experience in the gallery will be different and that is perfectly fine.

The beauty of art is that the same piece can be different when seen with different eyes.

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Figure of Chamunda Dewi from The Sainsbury Centre

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We decided to start off with some individual work. After confirming our plans, we were each assigned a character and went off to do with it whatever we wanted.

On the day itself, all of us produced 200-300 words of potential script that would be edited into one cohesive timeline.

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The next day, we came back together to look at all the puzzle pieces we crafted.

We quickly realised that a lot would have to be changed. Working separately made thing move along quicker but it also limited communication. Let's just say everybody had a slightly different idea about what was going on.

But it was no big deal. Half a day in the library, a ton of discussions, rewriting and editing later, we had our script! Complete with camera and stage directions.

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Photo of ‘Lesson (two figures)’ by John Davies at the Sainsbury Centre.

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As we had decided to recreate the observer’s journey through the gallery, and wanted to emphasise the differences in perspective visitors have when experiencing art, we thought of shooting the project from the first-person perspective. The idea came about quite early on in the process, and we felt that it would best express the message we wanted to convey.

We executed our ideas when we met at the Sainsbury Centre to shoot the scenes.

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Using the Media Suite, we recorded the audio for the scenes that we had shot beforehand. We did so by character, and adjusted the dialogue to the video to ensure better results. As a group, we learnt how to navigate the recording equipment as well as the sound editing software, Garageband and utilise it to our advantage.

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Lost all of our editing progress :(
Did remake it better tho :)

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Paul was a huge help on this journey.
We have learned a huge amount, and it will be very valuable to us in the future!

Enjoy the video.

#writingmatters