Final Piece Proposal

So after dipping into all of these different new media practices I have had a think about what I might do for my final piece and I believe I have an idea! Once of the videos we looked at, was raising awareness of domestic violence and involved the user with yes or no answers. This interested me as it wasn't about diagnosis or like a game but it was more about raising awareness of this problem.

 

The whole idea of raising awareness about an issue using interactive media was really interesting to me and I thought that I could maybe create a video that was aimed along these lines. I was at a Liverpool Students Union Staff forum last night and at the beginning of the session a woman gave us a presentation on Mental Health and talked about the different forms and symptoms of mental health issues. I was always aware of this issue and the different types to a certain extent but I didn't know that mental health was such a common problem, especially with students.

 

I have had an idea, I will have someone in the studio sitting down on one of the sofas or chairs with simply a plain background. I will then pose questions which will be spotlights on my YouTube video and get my character to answer/react to these questions. The user will have the choice to look at as many answers as they please and then there will be a spotlight at the bottom which will be the 'answer' button. This button will lead to a series of answers and the user will have to choose one which will be their answer to which condition they think this person has after looking for symptoms in the characters answers.

 

I am going to contact the mental health expert at the university and see if I can meet up with her to have a chat and see if this idea could work. If so I will talk with her about the sort of research I need to do and the sort of things I need to convey in my video as well!

 

I really hope that this idea will work and who knows maybe, if it is successful, she will want to use the video!