Last week we had the opportunity of meeting Brooke Montgomery, a creative director and director for Cut. It was really cool meeting and hearing from someone who works for a company I’m familiar with and seeing what and how things are run behind the scenes. Cut creates interesting think pieces that are presented as fun videos that are easy and entertaining to watch.
An idea for a video filmed amongst my peers would follow a similar style to the Lineup videos that Cut produces. We would have 5 participants, 4 design students and 1 visual media student. The visual media student would be presented 4 portfolios belonging to the design students and would try to guess which portfolio belongs to who. This could also be done in the reverse, 4 visual media students portfolios matched by a design student. All the materials would already be provided given that we submitted portfolios to get into the program.
I think this would lead into at least 2 interesting conversations. Either that we judge people by their appearance and assume what their style is, or it’ll show that peoples art is identifiable to the artist because it mimics us and our lived experience. Oftentimes when I see other designers, I’m surprised at first by their style but once I get to know them more intimately, I see where their inspiration comes from and how it’s applied to their work. Given that the two programs don’t interact much with each other, it would be a perfect situation to go into blindly And with the ratio, it should accommodate for the the large cohort of design student to film students.