Intermediate Studio Practise
Conversation
Project/Assessment Task: Brief: A Conversation Take time to develop ideas and experiment with different media, materials and technologies. Play with instructions, reinterpret, disrupt, reinvent... What’s the most important conversation for today? What’s the most important conversation for the future? Who will you speak to? What is the message? Through the application of your chosen practice you are asked to research and develop a visual outcome that centres around the idea of ‘A Conversation’.
• Languages. How does people undertand each other without language? • How did people communicate in Ancient times? • What does cave paintings saying? • How does conversation changed last decade? • Online conversation.Is it a problem or nowadays achievement?
• What does body language saying about you? • Should we trust body language books? • How to detect lies? • Why is body language important for you? • What message would I like to tell? • What is important for today? • Racism, drugs, alcoholism, prostitution. Everyone knows that is bad, but it is still happeneng. • Are rules created because you can break them?
Experiment TRANSLATION – Eksperimentas vertimas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNX1256eVw8 This video is very emotional and heart moving. Lithuanians were invited to take part in casting to take role in the movie and one after another they were sitting in the waiting room next to African man. Actually it was just an experiment. There was no casting. Black man asked people to help him to translate a message he had received on Facebook. He have been in Lithuania just for 2 weeks therefore he still couldn’t understand the language. But participants were shocked when they’ve seen the message. They didn’t even want to translate it. “It’s very humiliating” “You don’t need to know this” “It’s racist” “Do you know the person who wrote this?”
MESSAGE Monkey, what are you doing in Lithuania? Go back to Africa, that even your smell wouldn’t be there anymore! If you will not get this – we will catch you and from your slave skin we gonna make shoes.
MESSAGE
The Fortress of Sleeping Butterflies “Oh… I hope you understand me... I am not really good at other jobs, and I don’t prefer nothing else apart of my current job! I don’t want to be a doctor, layer or a cleaner… I really love my job and you should understand me. My profession is not that different from yours. Every day I make people happier! It’s like charity… You should see them eyes when I do it – every touch make them feel so special, every hug and kiss makes them realise that someone cares about them. And I have to be very gentle and careful with disable people. I can’t show that I am scared if they have just one leg or no hands. They are the same like us, and they want to be loved…”
“I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I’m a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.” ― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage”
“There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you “I am constantly torn between killing my- stop looking in mirrors.” ― Tennessee Williams self and killing everyone around me.” ― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
BREAKING OUT YOUR COMFORT ZONE IS THE PATHWAY TO GROWTH 1. Out of your comfort zone. When do people feel uncomfortable? Why did you cheat? Why didn’t you brush your teeth this morning? Do you change your socks every day? 2. What people are happy to talk about? Food, holidays, trips, weekends, parties, hobbies, weather, success, awards; 3. What topics are embarrassing? Drunk moments, mistakes, questions about weight, sexual topics; 4. What questions makes you lie? Personal life (cheating, bad habits, criminal reports, illegal things you’ve done) 5. What questions upset you? Homesickness, tragedies in your family, deaths, break ups, sad news, heart moving stories,charities; 6. What surprise you the most? Unexpected news and questions 7. What makes you laugh? Everybody has different sense of humour, it depends on person; 8. What makes you shy? If someone found out the secret or embarrassing thing and said it loud.
I am going to talk with different people and during 5min conversations I will try to get these emotions from them: Happy/satisfied/smiling/positive/glad Sad/pained/tearful/unhappy/crushed/offended Laugh Surprised/shocked/insulted Shy/blushed Lost – when they hear unexpected/personal question which leads to lie Embarrassed Uncomfortable
Laura felt quite confident when she was talking about the studies, however she got a bit angry and disappointed that university program could be a bit better and more flexible. She was happy to talk about holidays, but when I asked her sexual questions she started laughing and at the same time she got a bit shy and lost. These questions were unexpected. Laura looked a bit sensitive and sad when I asked her about charities and suffering
Gabriele was confident during all the conversation. To inappropriate questions she reacted normally and started joking about it. Her strategy is to tell a joke instead of showing her real reaction and telling the right answer.
Charlotte were happy and she felt confident during all the conversation, while Justina got really shy when I asked her “When was the last time you had sex? Was it good?” She was quite happy to talk about holidays and Spain, but she got sensitive when we touched animals supporting topic.
Kotryna felt uncomfortable when I asked her if she put some weight on from the time she’ve found a boyfriend. She got quite negative reaction when she was talking about her work, but when I asked her how is her relationship going I could see her shinny smile. Kotryna reacted quite normally to sexual questions. But she got quite sensitive when I asked about her family and recent troubles.
From this experiment I can see that everyone reacts different to same questions. Some of them were really confident about personal and sexual questions, some didn’t even want to give me answers. But all is fine, because I was interested not in the answers, but reactions and what makes people smile, laugh, blush or get angry. however I could categorize questions to – positive and negative. Positive. People feel happy and confident when they talk about things they like, hobbies and about the things they are good at. Also they are happy to talk about free time, holidays, parties (if it went well, but if they got too drunk and make something embarrassing it would go to negative category), success, awards
Agne was smiling and laughing all the conversation. If I would analyze this video more probably I could see the difference between honest laugh and shyness.
Negative. People don’t feel confident about personal and sexual questions. Also it depends who is interviewing that person. My friend Kotryna told me that she felt very confident and relaxed during all conversation, because interview was with me, and she don’t hide anything from me.
Body language – is a kind of nonverbal communication, where thoughts, intentions or feelings are expressed by physical behaviours such as facial expressions, body posture, gestures, eye movement, touch and the use of space.
Body Language of Lies: • Physical expression will be limited and stiff, with few arm and hand movements. Hand, arm and leg movement are toward their own body the liar takes up less space. • A person who is lying to you will avoid making eye contact. • Hands touching their face, throat & mouth. Touching or scratching the nose or behind their ear.Not likely to touch his chest/heart with an open hand. Emotional Gestures & Contradiction • Timing and duration of emotional gestures and emotions are off a normal pace. The display of emotion is delayed, stays longer it would naturally, then stops suddenly. • Timing is off between emotions gestures/expressions and words. Example: Someone says “I love it!” when receiving a gift, and then smile after making that statement, rather then at the same time the statement is made. • Gestures/expressions don’t match the verbal statement, such as frowning when saying “I love you.” • Expressions are limited to mouth movements when someone is faking emotions (like happy, surprised, sad, awe, )instead of the whole face. For example; when someone smiles naturally their whole face is involved: jaw/cheek movement, eyes and forehead push down, etc
TAKAHIRO KIMURA
Emotions and face expressions
PHOTO SHOOT
EDITING AND CHOOSING THE BEST PICTURES
CREATING DESIGN FOR THE GAME CARDS
COLOUR
CHOOSING FONT AND FINAL DESIGN
CREATING THE PACKAGE DESIGN
PRINTING AND MAKING CARDS
PHOTO SHOOT OF THE “MOOD GAME” CARDS
Developement and design by Agne Baksyte U1363657 The University of Huddersfield