This week we were split up into groups of three and set upon the task of creating an audio visual presentation/video addressing some aspect of New Communication Technology. In our group we choose to do ours on the hot topic of online dating and the sites associated with them such as eHarmony and RSVP.
In our initial brainstorm we thought through a couple of ideas, with us all circuiting around the idea of people editing their personalities, interests, beliefs and even their faces with the hope of meeting that special someone. One of our main ideas was influenced by the now infamous Evolution advertisement by beauty giant Dove. (linked above) We were ambitious and liked the idea of creating a scenario situation were two people meet online and one or both of them had altered their profile picture to the point of complete misrecognition, with a similar ‘Dove’ video sequence showing this.
However after looking through Creative Commons and finding little to none relevant materials as well as the conflicting problems of time began to think of alternative ideas. For example, filming and editing together clips from different eHarmony members and completely exaggerating their online lies e.g. man cropped identical twin out of profile photo etc. We decided to do some more research before settling on one idea.
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