Dag 3

The workshop enlarges the scope, horizon on different ways to tell a story. Still, working for printmedia ie a newspaper limits these ways. There has to be a fairly neutral way in which information is presented to readers. So the readers can make up their own minds. Images (photographs,illustrations videofootage) have a great impact on how people perceive (colour) information. Most of the times a lot of information has to be channeld to the reader, telling a story lineair will facillitate this process. However beautifull it can be to have a story told by an assiociative way depending on keywords as in the case of the Korsakov system, there will be a tension between aesthetics and pure and simple neutral information transfer. In seeing the broader possible scope in which stories are told I'm really running into, over the boundaries, frontiers of my work at a newspaper.

My (our) project will no longer be trying to find new approaches to tell a story about Dutch soldiers send to Uruzgan. It will center on trying to sort out all the infomation we have been given and see how it can be put to good use in our daily practise. Experiencing the much broader scope of making documentaries in a largely art environment contrary to my work at an infographics department at a newspaper gives a good opportunity to distance oneself from the daily habits. That having been said, it will be very interesting to me to see if and how this workshop will influence my future work. I'm looking forward to the rest of the workshop.