Due: 26 February
Your first project for this course will be to create a "Memory Archive" exploring a memory or set of memories from your past. You should include creative text(s) exploring the memory and images that use memorable details to enhance your archive.
This project has two parts: a set of instructions and your archive.
- Instructions
Begin by considering the four source texts from this unit. Your list of instructions should include at least two instructions drawn from each source text (Eternal Sunshine , The Doll Games, La Jetee, and "The Photographic Message") for a total of eight instructions. For each instruction, you should say what the rule is and include a couple sentences explaining how you came up with that rule. (examples below) - Your memory archive
Construct a memory archive following the rules you have devised for your list. Your memory archive should explore a memorable moment, experience, situation, or set of objects from your past. Both The Doll Games and La Jetee show how you might explore memories with extensive archives.
Examples
- Instructions
Each instruction should be in the imperative, a rule drawing on your understandings and observations of the text. For instance, you might write the following rule from La Jeteé:Some images in La Jeteé were not of the subjects in the film, but of locations. These location images established the mood for each time period as well as setting the context for the elements shown. Use images to establish context with both content and mood.
Another person might draw this rule from the Barthes article:Barthes suggests that truly powerful images are of traumatic moments. These images elude the connotation/denotation paradox through their extreme affect. Memory archives should include at least a few images that evoke trauma.
- Memory archive
You should use The Doll Games and La Jeteé as key examples of how a memory archive might function.
This project should be produced for the web, and should total at least eight pages, with many links. (Don't forget to include your instructions page as well). Your project should be uploaded to your site by the beginning of class on 26 February.
Your project should be placed in a subdirectory called 'project1' or something similar.
Projects by previous students
Remember that these project show possibilities and examples of student work. They do not encompass everything one could do, nor do they show what a project "should look like." In general, I picked solid projects that follow the assignment well. Also, please note that in place of Eternal Sunshine these classes were using Memento.
