Progress Report & Remediation

Overview

The subject of our collaborative project is digital romance; more specifically, digital romance on dating sites such as e-Harmony. The focus of our project will be on how accurately or inaccurately people represent themselves on dating sites such as e-Harmony and how accurately members are able to correctly categorize their prospective love interest.

We are making a mock e-Harmony commercial that satirizes everyone’s biggest fears regarding digital romances.

Progress

We have completed the research needed to produce a proposal. The proposal was submitted and approved. We were then able to move forward with our project and begin/complete the casting and the writing of the script.

Next Steps

With a February 14th deadline, the next task on our to do list is the actual filming of our story board. We decided that by acting out our story board ourselves in our film draft we can save the actors/actresses time and show them a digital representation of what we are looking for. Hopefully, this will make the filming of the actual commercial go forward without a hitch.

Brief Conclusion

This project so far has been all about planning and now we are at a point where we can FINALLY start implementing. That being said, we have a lot of work to do but we’re optimistic that we’ll get the job done.

Remediation

As I mentioned in class, our project is all about remediation (after all, most films are). More specifically, our group will be using remediation from the brainstorming process to the filming to the execution of the final product itself. We will be utilizing and playing off of numerous e-Harmony commercials, the music played in the background during these commericals, and the actual testimonies from their members' success stories.