Reflection:
Following our lecture on online collaboration and user participation, we were set the task to create a piece of media collectively using online content, editing them on Photoshop and uploading them on Google Drive to be created into a music video. We were presented with an array of still images, which when flicked through at a great pace created a moving image. It was our task to divide those still images up between the class and to ‘draw’ on top of them in Photoshop to create our own original still image. After completing each image, we were required to upload them online in which our images worked together to create an abstract piece of work. Each image appeared different but worked in conjunction with one another to create a successful outcome.
I have used Photoshop to edit photos on prior this task, but I believe that by having to edit so many images using layers and masking (which I first came to grasps within the logo task) I became more confident with the process and was excited to see the final outcome of our collaborative work.
This is our final outcome.
Evaluation:
This task taught me more about social media and its collaborative element in which users actively participate in every day. Not only are we the consumers through accessing and looking at these photos, but we also become the prosumers as we participate in using context to produce our own work and meanings. By creating a moving image, I understood the importance of the prosumer and consumer in contemporary society regarding the development of digital technology and how each user works together, whether that be knowingly on a project or unknowingly by writing responses on social media accounts to create new content and context.
I believe that we have successfully created a piece of work which illustrates this connectivity through social media and the digital as we all equally participated in creating content for a final product. If I was too, however, complete this task again, I would have made sure that I had completed my editing within the duration of the workshop as my slow pace working postponed the premiere of the final video which could be considered as not only a flaw in our task/experiment but timing could be seen as a bigger issue of collaborative participation.