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Intervention 2

For my intervention, I invited one of my friends, she forced to blind date by her family, so far she attended fifth blind date, and I invited her to draw her life map related to her blind date, and choose a dating story into visual story(video), and then this video will be shared her parents, and her parents will create an ending for this story and share their feeling after watching this video. I also will share this video to other young and old generations to get more feedback.

PROCESS

FEEDBACK ONE:

FEEDBACK TWO:

FEEDBACK THREE:

FEEDBACK FOUR

REFLECTION

During the intervention, I found that it is difficult to engage parents to my project, specially some parents who force their child into marriage, they don’t want to share more opinion, so I think I should change my stakeholder and think about my backup plan, but I have no idea so far. I feel like this intervention is not very successful, because I hadn’t see any change from the parents, after the girl’s parents seeing the visual story, they still keep the old thought. From feedback I got, we can see that there are big different concept between young generation and old generation, and traditional concept is still spread among the boys.

Intervention 1 (wear mask to communicate)

This is my small intervention 1, I used mask as a technique, drawing their mood on the mask and wear their mask to communicate with other people, but can’t speak, only rely on body language, this lasted for 4 days. Finally, observe whether they rely on the mask to have better communication.

FEEDBACK

after the intervention, I got some feedback and their feelings from participants:

  • at the beginning, they were unfamiliar, and a little embarrassed;
  • if don’t draw something on the mask, it’s difficult to express(without the help of the drawing, they don’t know how to express)
  • they can basically understand each other’s meaning, but there is also a slight deviation in the details
  • can’t feel the other person’s mood
  • without training, it is difficult to express with body language

REFLECTION

In the beginning, for my small intervention 1 and 2. Before the experiment, I think that communication and attractiveness are important, but I started to forget this in the following steps. I used mask as a technique, though it resolves a little embarrassment, it also increase the difficulty of communication. There are few information acquisition channels for online communication, a lot of interactive information is hidden, and it is difficult to feel the other’s person mood. And I found that if you want to increase the sense of communication and interaction, the content and process of communication will become more complicated. So how to make my project creative and interactive and not just like an only solution for temporary something I need to think more about in the future.

For the next step, I will continue to develop my intervention of the online drama therapy, develop the digital story. I also will consider the drawing as a technique to help people have a better communication style. (I also will do more secondary research on other therapy: https://www.verywellmind.com/art-therapy-for-troubled-teens-2610348 https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-gestalt-therapy-4584583 https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-art-therapy-2795755 ) and my intervention will focus on communication, interaction and creativity.

PROCESS OF INTERVENTION

FIRST DAY

SECOND DAY

THIRD DAY

FOURTH DAY

Intervention 2

To gain a industry knowledge of drama therapy online, I reached out to experts, Monique. She is a drama therapist and do a lot of stuff on drama therapy online.

Beneficial feedback I got started that: masks and costumes as a technique in the digital space, mask work is a staple of drama therapy work. As Jennings states, “some feelings can only be expressed through masks-feelings that are too anti-social, dangerous or depressing to be shown in other ways. Masks can contain the feelings that could not otherwise be expressed” (1990, ch.6, para.33). It is my belief that the online drama therapy space presents us with unique opportunities to not only work with masks, but to allow the client to see themselves in role with an immediacy that does not often happen in-person.

For my intervention 2, I will use mask as a technique, drawing their mood on the mask and invite people wear their mask to communicate with other people, but can’t speak, only rely on body language, this will last for 5 days, 10 mins a day. Finally, observe whether they rely on the face to have better communication.

EARLY INTERVENTION

DIGITAL STORYMAKING :

DRAMA THERAPY WITH DIFFERENT GENERATIONS ONLINE

RESEARCH QUESTION: How can bring understanding in views of marriage and love between different generations?

For this project, I found that there was a need for a way of communicating which allowed for a greater breadth of expression than could be conveyed through text and talk with each other face to face. In my journey to find suitable creative interventions, I drew inspiration from the approach I had developed as psychology, and based on the feedback I got from the stakeholder, I applied my drama therapy training to the field of digital media. I plan to use performance narratives, through interactive creation, actively explore the combination of drama therapy and digital media, and provide a way to express their feelings , communicate with each other and interact with others. 

I had designed the framework of the technique to follow a trajectory that began with telling existing stories and ended with creating new stories.

FIRST STEP:  

Recounting a story which collected from the people who has a problem on marriage and love (about blind date or marriage) Since some people unwilling to share their experience at the beginning, I collected some story in real life as a material that participant can use. If they want to share their experience, they can create a life map which illustrates important moments or events; the maps are then embellished with stories that were important in each of these stages of life.

SECOND STEP: 

Reading the beginning of a story and creating one’s own ending

THIRD STEP:

Creating a new story The multiple platform would create a space in which participants work collaboratively to create their culture and have a sense of ownership of the outcome.

FOURTH STEP:

Share your visual story and your parents can edit it

SCHEDULE:

Consulting with experts (05/21 — 06/21)
The next step for my project is it consult with experts as my project tackles themes of how to applied drama therapy to the digital techniques.

  • art therapists;
  • artists;
  • video game designers 

Collect real story can be as a material in the step one (04/21 — 05/21)

Further engage with stakeholder (05/21 — 07/21) How to engage people in my idea and have them easily understand each other. Build, edit and share their visual story

Do some research on Shaping Networked Theatre (05/21 — 06/21)

THE CHANGE I WANT TO SEE

DAFT

RESEARCH QUESTION:

How can bring understanding in views of marriage and love between different generations?

WHY:

China is clearly one of the world’s favorite countries for forced marriages. According to the “Survey Report on the Status of Forced Marriage in China” more than 70% of the respondents had the experience of being forced into marriage by their parents. The reason foe this phenomenon comes from their lack of communication, different growth background and different channels for receiving information.

HOW:

In my journey to find suitable creative interventions, I drew inspiration from the approach I had developed as psychology.

I found that drama therapy is a method to help them understand each other more. Drama therapy offer new ways to express what you are thinking or feeling in order to cope with problems. Here’s an example: if you are having conflict with your parents, you maybe asked to role-play a scene in which you pretend to be your parents and speak from their perspective. It is intended to help participants break them out of any rigid roles or frameworks they have been limiting themselves to. They can express themselves while sharing a new side to their personality and learn to look at problems from the other side’s perspective.

How to engage people in my idea and have them easily understand each other is the biggest obstacle I need to overcome, and I got some feedback from stakeholder: 

  • face to face therapy is a bit awkward; 
  • It’s inconvenient offline, because don’t have much time to attend especially during pandemic;
  • They have not studied acting and drama

To further my stakeholder engagement I had conversation with psychologist, I have came up with multimedia platform that is to be used as part of my project’s targeted intervention, which can provide engagement as well as communicative, and expressive opportunities for different generations. The platform can help create a multimedia story rich with complementary combination of text, still image, audio, and/or video that can be interactive and edited at any time. These steps are as follows:

  • Recounting a story that the teller feels a strong connection to, usually from material that I collected in the real life;
  • reading online the beginning of a story and creating one’s own ending
  • Creating a new story with each other

WHAT IF

Parents and us are independent individuals, we can’t really change each other. My project aim to want to be understand each other better rather than proving that parents wrong in the views of marriage and love. After this project, they can understand each other more, and willing to communicate with each other, and accept the existence of different ideas. I am not against marriage, what I am against is the uniform criteria of happiness, like you have to get married at a certain age, if you don’t, you can’t be happy, you are a loser in life. I hope this project can reduce the conflict and young generations can have a say in the marriage.