Below you can watch a video I made passed October for the Community Building module at school. In the end we had to come up with a new improved concept and prototype for Sanoma’s FitFixers website/community. More at the beginning of the module we we’re asked to do interviews in order to make a needs analysis, which we had to present in an “original” way. Most groups went for video interviews, others for slide shows and I even saw a word-document

In my eyes, the problem with a video-interview in this case is that people will probably not answer as honest when there’s a camera pointing at them while begin asked about their health, weight, diets, …

I felt like playing around with stop-motion before, but never got past the small experiments, and thus, I took my chance. FitFixers is part of Sanoma Magazines, and given the fact we still needed faces to present our needs, I grabbed a bunch of magazines. So after 2 days of ripping out pages and cutting-out hundreds of people and objects and one mad night of shooting (in my room, which explains the bad lighting) and editing, this is what I came up with:

For our first big school project previous school year around October - November 2006, we we’re asked to participate in a contest organized by the Belgian government at the time. With the introduction of electronic identity cards, the eID, our task was to think of an application for this card. Our task at school was to showcase our idea(s) using video. I partnered up with Jonas Van Herp and Johannes Govaerts for this one.

After some brainstorms we got to the idea of using eID cards for identification at home. Obvious was that it could be used as an house key, but we thought of other possibilities in the house and selected a few to present.

(Videos after the jump!)

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