Mise-en-scene Activity

    In my Aice Media Studies class we participated in a project named Multimedia Mise-en-scene. The objective of this project was to create a station for groups to go to and learn about a character. The station had to have at least 4 different parts to it to help illustrate the character. This project not only had to be interactive but representative. The character my group got was a single father, who we named Samuel Samson, is a community librarian who uses storytelling to connect with kids. He's patient, thoughtful, and always ready to lend a helping hand. 

To illustrate our character Sam we really utilized that he was a librarian and created a mood board with elements to represent our character such as; Sam reading to the children, a shelf full of children's books, the Stanford University logo to represent his son and a kid holding up her first library card. Another way we illustrate our character we  and made a interactive library with blankets and candy, this part of the station gave the other group members a opportunity to sit around a computer listening to a audio recording of the book "A Cat In The Hat" and a physical copy of the book for people to follow along with. We felt this really represented Samuel because we put the other group members into almost a day in his life reading to the children.

We organized our elements in a way that took the group members through and a dat in his life and then invited them to his story time. The first thing the groups would do is listen to an audio recording of Sam introducing himself, here he talks about him being a librarian, how his wife died, and his son who just left for college. Then the groups would go to the next tab opened with Sam's mood board, once they were finished looking over the mood board the group would go on to a video of a tour of the community library Sam works that. Concluding the tour Sam asks the quests to join in for his story time hour. Once every group member was done with the tour they transferred to the floor where they had the library set up like I described in the previous paragraph. My group developed our character with the selection of focusing on him being a librarian and not talking about his life outside of it to really add to his character of being lonely. We also used the stereotype of a librarian being older to help convey Sam being a single father because his son has left for college but this also contributes to his loneliness. In the end, assigning each member their own role of developing elements to add to our station really came together well, overall, I feel the project went well and the interactive library was super fun thing to add to our station. However. I feel as if instead of doing different tabs they switch through to go to each element there could've been something that we could do that was a little neater, well organized and creative.