Triptych and QR codes

As I was away for the first couple of weeks for creative media practice, I missed out on both Triptych and QR code sessions, but I still wanted to look into both of these and see how they worked and if they could be ideal for my final project.

Triptych

A triptych is a split screen video that is often split into 2 or 3 screens, but of the same storyline just at different angles or of different images, but they all stay to the same narrative, e.g. one of the screens may be a POV of a character walking somewhere and the second screen could be just be close ups and extreme close ups of the character and then the third screen would be wide angles and birds eye shots.

I liked the idea of creating this type of video and maybe wanted to create a video which tells the same story but from a different point of view, so have 3 friends taking part in some sort of activity or sport and film it from all 3 perspectives, the only difficulty in this would be re-enacting the same event 3 times to perfection, there would always be some things that didn’t go together like if it was a sport like football, to create the build up to a goal 3 times the same, would be extremely difficult.

I then looked into other classmates Triptych’s to get an idea of what they had created, and after watching a few videos I realised that triptych was a good was to make a video a lot more cinematic and I wouldn’t really be using it to its full extent with the idea I already thought of, so I have a lot to think about if I want to use this filming method in my final piece.

 

QR codes

A QR code, short for Quick Response Code, is a scan able code that links you directly to a link, whether it is an advertisement, game or website. Below is a picture of Yell’s advertisement to their own QR code.

 

 I was always familiar with QR codes but I had never really been a big fan of them, so to have created one would have been interesting into whether I might gain more of an appreciation for them. Once again I looked at other students work and liked how some had created narratives by introducing a story and then you can look at previous happenings in the story by scanning the codes, however I still wasn’t convinced that this would be the most creative method to make my final piece.