During the last few months I've been experimenting with different visualization techniques and devices for my thesis project Summer Diary 2014, about my experience living in Israel last summer during the war with Gaza. Heddi Siebel, my mentor, has suggested different options:
- Include dates in the news crawl to reflect that it's a personal journal;
- Be more revealing about how I feel;
- Float big blocks of text over the landscape;
- Find and use news cast sound and footage;
- Try voiceover instead of the news crawl;
- Put a translucent band under news crawl;
- Include a hook or a thesis in the beginning;
- Play with rhythms of images and text. The text is sometimes spot on, which makes it interesting. At other times, there's dissonance between image and text. Does the length of the image work?
- Take out the names of places.
