It was certainly a challenge trying to figure out how to best go about organizing and divvying up roles and responsibilities. Inherently, doing a group project when you can’t physically meet it is flawed, there are a multitude of reasons I feel it’s a much harder task. It’s simple but also key things, being able to look someone in the eyes and actually talk about their side of what needs to be done makes it more real, whereas over zoom/collaborate etc. it somehow feels less important, the pandemic has affected everyone but for me personally I feel so much less motivated, I love my course and find it all interesting but with the state of the world it sometimes is a struggle to keep it up.
Regardless, due to this I felt that it would be best if we were to do some kind of anthology, have each member create a section of the piece, that we could take and throw together with some kind of framework, be it simple transitions that take elements of one piece and link it with the next or perhaps an entire fictional radio show. One idea that was floated around was a post apocalyptic radio show (a la Fallout) that would either feature, or be interrupted by, the pieces that each person involved would contribute. Ultimately the idea that seemed to stick was to lean in to the eclectic mix of styles, genres etc. and have it be very abstract, dada inspired. As of writing we do not have every piece to hand so it is unclear how exactly each piece will fit in and how the change over from section to section will work. In terms of assigning roles I set up a google, having people vote on the genre they felt was best and then deciding what roles, really though all we needed was content creators and then dubbing engineers. Luckily Hwyel and Dean were more than happy to act as dubbing engineers, we opened it up to people that if they have specific ideas about how they wanted their piece introduced, however it feels like such planning can only really take place once we have everyone’s contributions