Notes from class on 11/10

What is sequence analysis:

• Picking out a piece of a film that seems cohesive as a part
• Look at it in parts to find the meaning or intention
• Sequence into parts to look at the pieces and distinct parts to examine the details for meaning
• Deliberate detail analysis, painstaking
• Language of film – allows you to identify elements and talk about them on different levels

Sequence

• Self-identified
• Has a beginning and end
• Analogous to a chapter in a book
• 7 – 12 minutes of film
• song/verse

Elements of sequence analaysis

• chart/camera angle/dialogue – transcription
• depth of field
• effects
• color
• articles of a film and reviews of reviews (source materials)

Why do we do sequence analysis?

• reflect on it, see meaning in the detail
• structuralist approach for symbols
• deep awareness
• fine points
• pinpoint issues
• important features of relationship
• determining how much intention the director or interaction designer used at this level
• Gestalt verses looking granularly.  Emergence
• Merging lifeworld of the creator of the film and yourself – how well they conveyed the meaning, what worked and what didn’t
• More than the individual – relationship between things, the small and the larger picture

Activity #1 – Sequence counting in a minute in a half:  World of Warcraft – Here Without You

• Ranged from 35 – 2
• Time, movement, location, scene, expressions, narrative, editing, transitions (how people in class determined sequences)

How do we pick a sequence for interaction design

• look at it from a particular ideal user
• look at it from several small sequences based on different individual users
• we want to situate and analysis from a particular lifeworld and experience
• ideal reader of the text in terms of film, should still be that way for interaction design (addresser and addressee) rather than one real person in the world

How do we do it in interaction design

• Key strokes – old style no necessarily reflecting of the end user
• Silverback, think aloud, eyetracking –> put these together for comparative sequences

Activity #2

• Short, simple and manageable interaction for sequence analysis, work on in class during Thursday to turn in next Tuesday, group of 3

Notes from class on 11/4/09

We watched several movie clips and discussed the ideas from the readings; also Chung-Ching made some awesome diagrams to help us with understanding and discussion of the films.

Notes from class today

Here are notes from class today;

We looked at terms from the paper. We then applied the terms to a movie clip we watched.

Then we watched a youtube clip about a touch interaction, and applied the terms from the Lacey paper.

Then we had a discussion about novel interactions and symbolism, and a wee bit ‘o speculation about how to think about new systems.

P.S. If someone else has notes, please feel free to add them. You can either add them as a comment or create an entirely new post; however, it might be nice to have all of the notes in this section.

Chung-Ching and Jen ARE AWESOME! Thanks for the discussion.