Creative Media Practice!

The Creative Media Module is not nessacerily designed to be based solely on technology, but to help us engage with it easier and come up with new, innovative ideas as to telling stories across different narratives. We are tying to engage better with technology using these forms of storytelling by entertaining in a different way, more than just video.
We are taught in a six week block and in that time, we focus on different ideas. The first has been Triptych and multiscreen.
Triptych is something that has derived from an early era where people would tell stories using multi screen and describe them as 'a spatial or window montage'. Experimenting with Triptych can be seen in many places more so than the cinema, such as concerts, museums and churches. It is strange because since we have began our lectures on this subject, now everywhere I look I see multiscreen montages! Just like on my laptop right this second;

Screen shot of my laptop and its four windows open

Triptych in photography

Triptych in early paintings

Check out below a triptych video about a girls hands. I find this a calming and relaxing video.

'Hands'

Within Triptychs, each window is associated with another, thus telling a story across various screens. I was asked to create, in a day and a half, a short Triptych myself. I came up with numerous ideas within my group before we settled on one. We wanted to tell the story of waking up in the morning, brushing teeth, making breakfast and leaving. We made this more interesting with a piece of music that had a slow beat to it, and added some sound effects such as an alarm clock. 

Have a little look at it below!