Research Project: Artefact 3 - Shifting Power Centres

After looking at whether my focus group was able to identify a character's power centre and define their personality through a series of still poses, I decided to look at the shift of power centres within a character.

Through this artefact, I wanted to see if my audience was able to see where a power centre was shifting to and from within the character and what they thought might be happening in the clip.

These were the clips I presented:

 Having presented these to my focus group, I found that most people were able to identify the movement of the power centre and generally had an idea of what the situation was. However, as I finished this artefact, I realised that I've gone slightly off topic from my research question, so I'll need to try and refocus my artefacts for my 4th and 5th artefact.

Research Project: Artefact 2 - Power Centres

For my second artefact, I will be looking at the importance of using power centres with characters - they help us to define a character and also affects a characters "tempo/rhythm".

I want to find out whether my audience can identify a character's power centre by their body language, without any facial expression, and whether they are then able to define the character's personality through these poses.

These are my 11 poses: