Creative media practice project

For my final project in creative media, I decided I wanted to use QR codes to tell a story from around Liverpool. My story that I wanted to tell was of Batman saving people around Liverpool, but instead of Batman saving people, I created his character so that he was not very good at his job to make the story more of a comedy for people. The idea of the QR codes and place them on a map to show that if this was a real project in Liverpool I would have the QR codes placed at different locations to show what crime Batman would have fought in that specific place.

I had to plan out different scenes which I thought would be good for a Batman scene. I thought of a few different scenes, one being a man robbing a shop where it takes a few seconds for Batman to realise what has happened and the man gets away.

Once I had all of the scenes that I wanted to shoot written out, I then needed to find actors. Unfortunately there where not many people available due to many having work to do themselves. I also had a problem on my first day of filming, not long before we were supposed to film, I had a text from the main actor saying he would not be able to make it as he was sick. This caused a set back but luckily I managed to get another actor to take his place.

Once I had all the actors that was needed for the shoot, I then went to film my project. Unfortunately, due to the bad weather, we were only able to shoot 4 out of the 6 scenes that I wanted to film. The rest of the week also had heavy rain weather which meant that there was no other night that we could have filmed the rest of the scenes.

I thought that my final project could have been expanded and improved on. One of the main things that I should have added to the project was making a reason as to why people would be interested in going out and exploring these QR codes around Liverpool. One idea could have been that we could reveal who Batman actually is at the end of the experience.

Below, I have added the picture of the Google Map that my QR codes have been placed on.