Community Curation Creation: Your Favorite Movie Sucks

Your Favorite Movie Sucks

This project was a lot of fun. It presented the most unique challenges and called upon our creativity in ways that previous projects have not. Collecting entries was a fun and interesting part of the process in its own right. Actually organizing those entries was challenging and rewarding. 

For our project we knew we wanted to have people submit their favorite movie quotes. We initially left it broad to cast a wide net and get as many entries as possible. We like movies so it was fun to bond with family and friends over movies they enjoy. Furthermore, many people that submitted movies and movie quotes were interested in the progress of the project. Our friends asked us to update them on its progress and let us know when it was complete. In that sense we truly felt like we got the sense of teamwork and collaboration that this project was designed to create. 

We learned a lot about the challenges and difficulties of community collaboration from this project. One thing we regret and in hindsight we would have changed is our call for submissions. The call we sent out was pretty generic, it just asked for favorite movie quotes. What we received was a wide variety of responses that were difficult to tie together around a tight theme. We realized after collecting them that the broad nature of the prompt was an issue. Few people included an explanation for their quote, which left us with little content to build upon. This meant that we would either have to create a theme generic and broad enough to encompass all of these submissions as is or find some way to make them more tailored and detailed. We came up with the idea to mock the films as a solution to this problem. It was a way for us to inject structure into the submissions posthumously, demonstrate our creativity, and maintain the submissions as our main feature of the collection. We realize and admit that we did not maximize the potential of community interaction. Rather than giving our submitters the feeling that they are contributing to a creative idea we ended up using them as clay to mold our idea out of.  

It was interesting to see the role that social media played in our project. We were both surprised by the people who actually responded and how eager they were to share. It shows that it is easy to get people to share and help so long as you are able to get them to talk about something they are passionate about and invested in. The one strength of the broad nature of our call for submissions was that it was not selective. Everyone has some experience with a movie, good or bad, from their childhood or in their old age, for any number of reasons. This meant that submitters needn’t feel qualified to contribute.

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