QR Code

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Today we started looking at QR code. QR code has never caught my attention because maybe I'm too lazy to want to try it out but I was willing to give it a go today. We first looked at a prezi where we were shown various examples of how QR code can be used. Some of it I had heard of but then some of the rather strange examples I had never even though of, here are some examples below.

This idea was really cool to me because it was simple yet really effective. The only issue I had was that if you were to put that on a child the chances are they may complain or remove it in some way, we know what kids are like!

This idea was very peculiar to me! The idea is that you can 'dial up the dead' using a QR code, I'm still quite confused as to how this was good or what actually happened though. I get why this could be a cool idea, if someone that died left a message or a number of videos that you could go back and watch, this may be heart warming for loved ones. I'm not sure if I would have this though....probably would actually!

The most interesting example for me though was this. I was aware of QR codes being used for advertisement, but I had never seen it to this size or extent!I thought that the idea of using their roof to advertise from the sky hopefully benefiting from things like Google Earth was an absolute genius idea!











Once we looked throu8gh the presentation, we then got into our groups and decided on what we would do. I was in a group with Drew and Sam. We looked at a number of videos on YouTube and came across one that used QR code to generate someone speaking.

We thought this was a great idea because it was simple and could be done relatively easy, but it was quite effective and interesting. We wanted to add another dynamic to it though just to challenge ourselves a little bit more so we decided on using all three of us in our video. We decided that we would have a conversation between three of us having a laugh with each other. Because we wanted to create the QR code using a triptych dynamic, we realised that trying to trigger all three of the videos at the same time might prove to be difficult.

When it came to producing the piece, we took a picture of each of us, added the QR code (using QR Stuff) and then printed them out. We then went into a quiet room and videoed our mouths talking to each other, which proved to be quite humorous! We needed to film all three phones in sync so we needed another phone to do this. This proved to be the hardest part of the project because we found it extremely hard to time all three phones so they worked in sync with each other.

In the end it didn't work quite as well, but I believe that we couldn't make it perfect because of the short period of time that we had. If we had more time we would be able to sit down and work out timing with each video in detail. Also we would have been able to properly film the project using equipment such as a tripod to properly angle the footage.

This task wasn't interesting to me initially because I have never really seen the point in QR code but after having a play around with it I now have a new love for QR! It adds another dynamic  to something and I believe, even if the code is just a link, it is a great way of interacting the audience with something.