Creative Media Practice

Creative Media Practice

QR codes

We were asked to create a narrative using QR codes on QRStuff.com
The website was very stir hat forward and easy to use. Once we were shown how to use this site and what app to download to our smartphones or iPads, I found myself scanning bar codes on anything I could find. I found it very addictive. Before this lesson on QR codes I never took notice to codes. But now I scan codes thinking there is going to be some sort of interesting story behind it. I began to understand the power of the QR code when researching into it a little more. People feel intrigued by the mystery behind a QR code and will want to scan one when they see a code to see what the story is behind it. I see QR codes as a window and when scanned the window is opened. 

I paired myself up with Coral and we decided to create a simple narrative about a cat. We wanted to keep the narrative simple as we wanted to play around with the QR codes. We used images and YouTube footage to create a short narrative. Using QR codes was a fun way to create a narrative without too much difficulty. When playing around with creating QR codes I came across some issues within the creation stage. For example I wanted to create a QR code from a Facebook video that was my own. The problem was when the QR code was scanned Facebooks home page was the only thing that appeared therefore and images or videos I wanted to use for QR coding has to be uploaded onto either Flicker or YouTube.