#ELVSS12 Social Technologies Sustainability Project

As part of our Social Technologies module on the BSc Professional Sound and Video Technologies course I’m currently studying, We were asked to take part in an international collaboration between students from UK, New Zealand and France. The brief was to create a video using portable media (i.e Iphones, Ipads, Android devices) in order to highlight the issues of sustainability/recycling.

As a team, Team 1 (MOBILEXHIBITIONISTS) came up with the simple idea of a plastic bottle being thrown away by someone in NZ and it travelling all around the world ending up in Salford Quays, UK where it would be picked up by someone who cared about the environment and taken to the nearest recycling point.

This project was interesting to be part of as I feel I have gained quite a few new and important skills. As part of the team I took on the role of team leader which required me to take part in Google + Hangouts in order to communicate with lecturers and fellow students so that everyone was aware on both sides of the world as to what was happening and how the project was progressing.

In my role as team leader, I made sure the other team members knew what areas we needed to work on and when which gave me experience of time management and gave me the confidence to delegate tasks to make sure it was possible to succeed in the set task.

As you may have noticed, I am quite an active blogger which is helpful as it means I don’t mind looking after the teams blog site as well as organising other students.

During the project there were a few difficulties in terms of coordination across time zones and so, because I am the most active team member online, I made a conscious effort to liase with our lecturers and the NZ students in order to make sure things progressed. I replied to posts as quickly as I could and if I didn’t have the relevant information, I would contact the other team members to find out whatever information was needed.

On the final day of the project the team gathered at MCUK and we spent the day tying up loose ends. We shot the final scenes of the film  on Salford Quays and then edited the footage, wrote the music and uploaded it. We also recorded our reflections video giving our thoughts on the project and how successful we thought it had been. Our team conversations that had been posted on Facebook were exported to a Google document using a piece of code written by our very own Stas and then compiled in a Storify document by me.

All of the footage and transcripts are available here:

MOBILEXHIBITIONISTS

May 2, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: #ELVSS12, #stec12, Android, apple, avi, environmental, facebook, fellow students, google, HTC, international collaboration, ipad, iphone, M4V, macbook pro, Mobile movies, mov, mp3, MP4, New Zealand, nz students, pepsi, pepsi max, salford quays, Salford University, smartphone, social media, soundtrack, storify, sustainability, technology, Twitter, wordpress | Leave a comment