User:Mihail Bakalov/Trimester 4/GraduateResearchSeminar/ProjectProposal3

Research question

What is the attached value of the experience economy on online social networks? Is it worth documenting every our action on these platforms?

Intro

This project builds on a similar concept to Willem Flusser's idea about mediation through images, where happenings turn to events. I see that nowadays happening in social networks.

I would like to use the every day user generated banal posts on social networks for the foundation of my work. The goal of this project is building a fictional documentary story/film by re-enacting posts made by users from the available information on online social platform. Focusing on posts that present personal experiences and doings, which are not related to corporative, commercial content.

We live in an experience economy where economic value is being created through experiences. As a basis for my research I am taking the concept of experience economy. What Facebook has given to people is the space to share mundane things and make them into worth events. By doing that it brings meaning to banality, it highlights it and attaches value to it.

By construing user publications from social network I intend to have a similar approach as to what Facebook does the banal content. The posts that I will take for my script will be chosen by me, as to which fit my concept best. Mainly I'll focus on personal daily mundaine activities which become amplified through the network. I will not emphasize on corporative commercial content!

As a second element of my concept would be the cinematographic approach. I will resemble the amplified approach of social networks towards the content. The aesthetics of the filming would be lush, panoramic and glamorous, which would appose to the dullness of the content of the script. The imaginary will be similar to the hollywood style of filmmaking. [cinematography]

• -example how it is going to be filmed ( Scott Hicks - “Snow Falling on Cedars”; Martin Scorsece – “Aviator” and camera man like Robert Elswit - “The life of Pi”, Wally Pfister ( “Inception” ); Christopher Doyle; Slawomir Idziak,

EXAMPLES of posts HERE!

Walking the dog

My homemade breakfast!

Reading the news paper

Project Description - have to add more here

I will use actors to reenact the posts. The film will have several acts as in several posts which are being re-enacted.

*Related works

Omer Fast https://vimeo.com/54402884 https://vimeo.com/54402885

Thomson&Craighead - spam karaoki project http://thomson-craighead.net/docs/songs.html http://thomson-craighead.net/docs/firstperson.html

*My works

earlier photographic works – taking content from one place and putting into another – Decay and SaveAs.

• Practicle steps

-searching for posts on social networks -searching for location for filming

*Bibliography

The experience society - Joseph Pine (Harvard Business Press, 2011)

Geert Lovink - Networks without a cause

Evgeny Morozov - The netdelusion