Synapsis Bullet points and Today's silks session...

During today’s silks workshop, we tried to use the silks for the ‘pass over scene’ between Jaccapo and Suzanne, and also we tried to mainly use them to explain how the Synapsis works.

During the Jaccapo and Suzanne scene, we created some nice images using the silks, but we didn’t know what the intention of the silks was actually for… Why were we using them? What did they represent? How do they represent it?....

As we couldn’t answer the questions, and in this scene the silks didn’t actually help in telling the story, we decided that we will not be using them for this scene, and find another way to do the pass over…

For the Synapsis scene where we explain the bullet points below, we thought of many many different ways of using the silks, we tried tying knots in them, people swinging, people doing areal positions, climbing up and having a knot tied in when you come back down, joining them, linking together and so many other ideas…. But we didn’t feel that it helped to explain what we want to explain, we felt that the silks didn’t really help in showing the journey that needs to happen when forming a long term memory. 

So we thought of using a Train set? Or Scale electric? Or cars on a track? Where, if one piece of these is missing, they will not work. We think that using the train tracks idea will help us explain the Synapsis story to the audience, and it will make more sense to them, so they will be more likely to take in the information that is being given to them.

When we come back off Easter break, we are going to be experimenting with the Train tracks and Scale Electrics and coming up with new ideas for scene that were originally blocked over by the silks.

Taz wrote the main points for Synapsis:  Bullet Points

·         The synapsis neuron is connected when a sense is received and the initial connection is then made

·         For the impulses to travel through the neuron, there needs to be a Connection

·         That connection is made by calcium protein, this holds the synapsis together

·         The bigger the impulse, the more calcium is produced to make a stronger connection

·         The stronger the connection, the better the memory

·         Henry had no hippocampus, therefore could not make the connections to form long term memories

·         The true function of the hippocampus is still being debated by scienctists today.

Ria :)