A Call to Action

Having been presented with our new briefs and larger-numbered groups, we got to know one another and had a slight discussion about ideas and possible design direction executions with Creative Conscience represented by Chrissy Levett and Eddy Altmann. We agreed to create an collaboration board using Miro where we would brainstorm ideas, carry out research and this would guide us on design directions and sub-division into groups basing on the topics we choose.

With all this in mind, we had to digest into finer bits what a transmedia experience was and which social cause would be more urgent for us to choose from amongst global issues.

On the Miro collaboration board, we shared our wants, skillsets, undergraduate majors and our areas of interest as visualised by the screenshots below:

Film scripts

Along with guidance came film scripts from Creative Conscience that included four separate "professionally written" scripts titled LCC Climate Action Films. These would at the least serve as a starting consideration for our design outcomes later on and at most feature in the final videos through poetry, voice-overs, a song or spoken word.

We read and internalised the scripts shared by Creative Conscience and both voted on and gave an overview and analysis of each. But in this discussion we suggested that we didn’t want to follow the scripts entirely, we wanted to create our own content. So we have done our own thinking and analysis based on scripts.

As activists with brimming love for humanity and its right to privacy, we were compelled into creating and joining a Signal group through which we would share most of the vital information and updates as other digital Social platforms were regarded insecure.

We held our first online meeting with Creative Conscience hosted by Chrissy through a Zoom conference call and we tabled the following concerns especially in regard to the scripts:

• Did we have to film a video as our design outcome?
• How closely were we supposed to follow the scripts?
• Could it be any other topic apart from climate change?

Amidst, all the questions and emptiness, we received Tutorials from our co-tutor Tonicha Child who emphasised the need to follow the course brief and not to let Creative Conscience’s wishes influence our outcomes. I can promise I was not asleep in the screenshot below :)

Finding an urgent cause

Taking global social causes like climate change, disinformation, misinformation, hunger, poverty, children’s rights, disability awareness, and others, we took preferences using the Miro mood board and based on our chosen topics shared our inspiration with each other the next day.

Miro Collaboration Board screenshot © Reagan Bbengo 2023

Disinformation

Having chosen disinformation as a social cause, I enlisted the help of news articles and social media for impactful stories like election cover-ups, temperature maps, news reports about Climate Change and more. In these, you could find that the most information was either being hidden or given less attention to.

Splitting up

Based on our topics of interest, we chose to split into two groups based on the numbers to work more efficiently with two different social causes namely Climate Change and Learning Disabilities.