Week 2 kicked off our first of four weeks of research and exploration with the students exploring the different tasks that will face Team Video. Working in small groups, the students tried out many different video technologies, including audio-visual tech such as GoPro cameras, and 360-degree virtual reality setups such as Google Cardboard and Oculus Rift Virtual Reality devices. For inspiration, the students watched some videos of local Sky Art projects, such as this video showing hundreds of elementary school children in Tallahassee creating a swallowtail butterfly at DeSoto Trail Elementary School, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HH2vl-JQiI&list=PLhrrLVxyXD3ujON5ZvFI2O18rYREfBvLg.
Many different ideas were generated in class as the students worked together to test different concepts and the format of the proposed class video started to come together. We reminded the students that the flashmob itself was only one feature (the central feature to be sure!) of our overall video promoting FSU as a Center for Innovation, and we discussed many different ways to presenting that video and incorporating the FSU Torch as a symbol of innovation. For instance, the different innovators profiled in the video could each be shown working with a different torch of their own creation, as the video takes the viewer from innovator to innovator, culminating with the flash mob on Landis Green showing a thousand students all working together to create a torch of innovation in person!