Thursday, 19 November 2015
Approaches to Research
At the beginning of this seminar we did a Question & Answer activity, where we had to think of an everyday object, and come up with a few Yes/No questions to ask our partner, to try and figure out their object.
This activity was a lot harder than expected, it took a long time to figure out each others objects. This was because we could only use Yes/No questions, which has taught me to explain my answers throughout this project, rather than answering a question with a simple Yes/No. It is very limiting when asking very basic questions, it made you want to ask more detailed questions which would give you the answer in a shorter amount of time with a better description of the answer.
Then we discussed the word Parallax.
"When the subject stays the same, but appears different with an altered perspective."
This taught me to start with a basic idea and expand on that, with words, phrases, images, sketches... anything which helps you to generate ideas. This lets you look at it in a different way, allowing you to create more unique ideas. And it doesn't have to be using a simple mind map, we could use mood boards to portray more imagery, which I find more helpful when trying develop my work.

