Short Film 1:
TRACY MA talk with NEW YORK TIMES VISUAL EDITOR
Nicer Tuesdays. November 9th 2020
In the digital world today, it is imperative to understand a specific thing with better visual interpretation. Not only today, but visual interpretations have also always stood alone in interpreting things in a better way. This session has given me a beautiful real-life explainer of how things work for a visual editor and the different techniques implemented in real-life situations.
The most valuable thing I learned from this session was that irrespective of the medium, which is, it can be print or sometimes digital, the most important thing is the ability to have the brain to showcase the story. The second knowledge I believed will help in my future projects is being empathetic toward how a reader might react to a particular post. It will give clarity while making the project as it tends to learn sympathy that is accurate for the readers.
To add to the concept, it is not always necessary for a story to be always a piece of ‘superficial embroidery’ or something which is entirely for ‘making people feel something.’ It can be a combination of both.
Short Film 2:
Avatar Robot Café Tokyo. Digital Transformation
Apart from modernising the world with various technologies and gadgets, it is very pleasing to see technologies growing for the ones who actually need them. The Avatar Robot Café is one significant and live example of such a technology. In places where robots are replacing human beings, this actually helps the disabled to participate in society. The advanced technologies seem to bring remarkable changes for the future generation.
I believe that the most important lesson from this, I have learned is that, sometimes, just offering a helping hand to the disabled is not enough. Before this technology, we all might have thought about helping them, but it shaped my thoughts about visual technology. With this I shall try to think out of the box for my future design projects. Along with the use of eye-detecting technologies for the disabled, I believe that this café has brought together technology and humanity together. It truly inspires me to think beyond the boundaries about visual technologies.