So, throughout the last four classes, I've been working on a Mise-en-scene project with three other students. For this project, we were divided in groups and each group randomly received a paper that described a character. Each group was meant to represent the character they received and illustrate who they are in an interactive way through three different forms of media: visual, audio, and tactile. On the last day, after we had finished developing our person, we presented our projects by setting up stations using what we had created to represent each of our characters and we moved around the classroom guessing what type of person the other groups had portrayed.
In my group's case, we had to do our project on a tech-savvy middle schooler who loves tinkering with gadgets, is a quick problem-solver, is very shy around new people, and is fiercely loyal to her friends. To represent our character, who we named Alice Rose (AR), we decided to create a project on Scratch, a visual coding program as a common stereotype for people who are interested in technology is that they are good at coding. We created a graphic of her room on Canva and put it on Scratch, and then added sprites of objects in her room, which allowed other students to press on certain things and a pop up of a picture or text box popped up in the middle of the screen, either describing AR or indirectly demonstrating who she is. One of our sprites was a monitor, which when pressed showed a mood board with techy elements, illustrating her interests. Another sprite was a framed picture of her and her friends, proving her loyalty towards her friends, which we thought was important since we basically only selected showing her techy side, and not other things that may interest her.
Our Scratch: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1232512039
For our audio element, we created a playlist with songs and artists we thought she would enjoy and listen to. The playlist, mainly consisting of rock music, played in the background of our project during presentations. We also added two sprites, a robot and a box full of gadgets, which when pressed on made noises. The robot, which we imagined she built during her robotics class, further fitting into the trope of nerdy techy character, beeped and made typical robot noises when clicked on. While the box, which contained all her gadgets and trinkets, made metal clattering noises.
And lastly for our tactile element, one of my group members brought a Lego-like robot she built when she was younger and two large Lego wheels demonstrating the gadgets and trinkets that AR would have created, used, or simply just had in her room. These objects were put on one of the desks in our table for other groups to touch and physically see when done exploring the Scratch.
Overall, I think my group did really well with not just the project's end result, but the creating process as well. We all worked diligently and didn't waste any time, allowing us to submit the project earlier than I had expected. And it also made the whole project just a fun experience rather than difficult work, stressing us out until the minute it's due. While we did struggle a little with the coding since none of us had ever truly coded and we had a technical issue where one of our sprites wasn't functioning how it was supposed to, we were able to do some research and after a while of working on it, we fixed it. But I still feel our project was missing something that the other projects had included. I'm not sure what, but our project, while it took a lot of hard work, still had less information and things that demonstrated our character, making it seem too little and less interactive. I'm not sure what we could have added, especially since I am very different from AR, and genuinely don't know anything from her world, but one group created a diary/journal for their character and I feel that could've been a great addition to our project, with invention designs, and notes about certain things. Other than that, I think we did well using Canva and Scratch to create our project and make it what it is.
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