Thursday, June 11, 2009
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Memories
Because we are all foreigners we discovered this golden rules:
1. We never name the name of our country or explain characters. For example, Ioana remember her wet ceiling in her home town house. She says in her mind: Cluj home. For the audience Cluj means nothing, but will gain identity because of the memories around it and the information.
Another example is the bag:
Ioana says in her mind: bag pesants wear when they travel by train with chicken, cabbage and cheese.
For her this is enough. She would never say: Romanian Pesants travelling with the romanian rail and carying chicken that they sell in the market and they have to travel with them from the countrysyde, cabbage that they have from their gardens and cheese that they make in their personal house.
! We should not explain, but give genuine personal information, that then people create the spectrum with. We shall never even say Romania. People will get the idea of a foreign country and how the person personally perceives it.
2. Seying the shoes of the cleaner, reminded Robert of his mother's shoes when they were living in Zimbabwe
3. Lots of elemets of the site reminded Ioana of the Romanian hospitals (the floor, the cart that resembles to beds etc)
1. We never name the name of our country or explain characters. For example, Ioana remember her wet ceiling in her home town house. She says in her mind: Cluj home. For the audience Cluj means nothing, but will gain identity because of the memories around it and the information.
Another example is the bag:
Ioana says in her mind: bag pesants wear when they travel by train with chicken, cabbage and cheese.
For her this is enough. She would never say: Romanian Pesants travelling with the romanian rail and carying chicken that they sell in the market and they have to travel with them from the countrysyde, cabbage that they have from their gardens and cheese that they make in their personal house.
! We should not explain, but give genuine personal information, that then people create the spectrum with. We shall never even say Romania. People will get the idea of a foreign country and how the person personally perceives it.
2. Seying the shoes of the cleaner, reminded Robert of his mother's shoes when they were living in Zimbabwe
3. Lots of elemets of the site reminded Ioana of the Romanian hospitals (the floor, the cart that resembles to beds etc)
Ways of observing people/the site
When you see somebody/something what draws your attention first?
1. Roberts looks at all the price tags: 7 Pounds for a large wash (=two drinks), 50 p for a spin, 50 p for soap, 50 p for 6 minutes of drying (so how many minutes of drying does the spin save, he thinks)
- he is paying a lot of attention to money and wonders a lot around money issues
2. Ioana looks at the rule tags: 'Please do not put trainers in the dryer', 'Please ask for advice', 'Do not smoke' on the door
- good information for the person that is new to the place and also the country
- How much the rules that are posted in the launderette can depict the society the new person has moved in?
3. Robert feels smell, of clothes, people, water, food. He perceives a lot of information through smell
4. Ioana looks at people's apearrance: clothes, pimples, face details (especially in women)
This shows a lot about her concerns and preocupations
5. Robert sees a guy leaving the bag inside unattended. He thinks the guy will worry for someone not to steal it
- this is Robert's concern, the guy showd no sign of woory. Robert projects his fears/concerns onto onther people
6. Robert heard a man comming. He thought he's a grumpy old man because the TV was showing horse racing. The man was actually a chinese young man.
1. Roberts looks at all the price tags: 7 Pounds for a large wash (=two drinks), 50 p for a spin, 50 p for soap, 50 p for 6 minutes of drying (so how many minutes of drying does the spin save, he thinks)
- he is paying a lot of attention to money and wonders a lot around money issues
2. Ioana looks at the rule tags: 'Please do not put trainers in the dryer', 'Please ask for advice', 'Do not smoke' on the door
- good information for the person that is new to the place and also the country
- How much the rules that are posted in the launderette can depict the society the new person has moved in?
3. Robert feels smell, of clothes, people, water, food. He perceives a lot of information through smell
4. Ioana looks at people's apearrance: clothes, pimples, face details (especially in women)
This shows a lot about her concerns and preocupations
5. Robert sees a guy leaving the bag inside unattended. He thinks the guy will worry for someone not to steal it
- this is Robert's concern, the guy showd no sign of woory. Robert projects his fears/concerns onto onther people
6. Robert heard a man comming. He thought he's a grumpy old man because the TV was showing horse racing. The man was actually a chinese young man.
Site Associations
Personal related free associations depending on the launderette specificity:
1. Yellow plastic container on the top shelf - reminds Ioana of the Argos containers she bought when she had to move in London. That takes her to other objects she had to buy: plates, bad clothes, lamp, etc.
- Where will these objects go when she leaves?
- Issues around moving into a new place/country and the objects around that
2. The black and white tiles reminded Robert of the flats he checked in Germany when he wanted to rent together withe Nils
- the idea of renting
- someone who is concerned with this is constantly thinking about it (number of rooms, flat characteristics, where the price is on the internet screen, the order of price on the internet page, etc) - important for immigrants
3. Clothes plastic bag model reminded Ioana of the pesants travelling by train, carying live chicken, cheese and cabbage (in Romania) - the smell and the poverty
4. Washing machine spins reminded Ioana of Domnul Muntiu (her grandma's friend) that knew by heart all the rotations and rythms of the Arctic machine (romanian brand)
- childhood memories and people's habbits
- good to use for one of the characters that is very acostumed to the place
5. The three buttons on the washing machines (red, yellow, blue) is the Romanian flag, that Ioana hates because the mayor of Cluj used to paint everything in those colours
1. Yellow plastic container on the top shelf - reminds Ioana of the Argos containers she bought when she had to move in London. That takes her to other objects she had to buy: plates, bad clothes, lamp, etc.
- Where will these objects go when she leaves?
- Issues around moving into a new place/country and the objects around that
2. The black and white tiles reminded Robert of the flats he checked in Germany when he wanted to rent together withe Nils
- the idea of renting
- someone who is concerned with this is constantly thinking about it (number of rooms, flat characteristics, where the price is on the internet screen, the order of price on the internet page, etc) - important for immigrants
3. Clothes plastic bag model reminded Ioana of the pesants travelling by train, carying live chicken, cheese and cabbage (in Romania) - the smell and the poverty
4. Washing machine spins reminded Ioana of Domnul Muntiu (her grandma's friend) that knew by heart all the rotations and rythms of the Arctic machine (romanian brand)
- childhood memories and people's habbits
- good to use for one of the characters that is very acostumed to the place
5. The three buttons on the washing machines (red, yellow, blue) is the Romanian flag, that Ioana hates because the mayor of Cluj used to paint everything in those colours
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