The testing mechanism. Now for a quick trip. Once I’m back, I’ll add more.
Eventually, the other tests I put together, for my Tape Recorder pieces and my various official Focus Group tests and LOL gauge will appear here too. I’m having to concentrate on finalising the writing - that’s the most important element for me right now. Once that’s sorted, I’ll finish adding the early tests in here too.
In the meantime, there’s always the reference location to keep checking out.
In terms of the writing I’m currently undertaking for my test, I think it could be a good idea to include a Terminology section. This would hopefully demonstrate how interested the Focus Group are in the writing.
Here in this Chapter on Design Choice, from Reyner Banham’s A Critic Writes (1999), the information is split for the reader with Notes forming a large section of the overall essay structure. This enables them to refer to the notes section, dipping in and out as necessary, or reading the whole for its own narrative content.
In my own test though, it will take on more of a Glossary form, which will allow me to gauge how interested the reader may be in the writing they’re testing. Interest in terminology they may have no experience of, would then mean turning to a section with definitions and away from the immediate text. A Glossary directly adjacent to the main text would be too easily accessible, and wouldn’t allow me to test how much their interest has been piqued by the design critique they read.
What has been tricky through this research process, is how to disconnect the analysis from the humour. Do I really need to add every reference? I keep adding and adding, but when do they become superfluous to my needs? There are so many directions/forms humour can take, and it’s so ingrained in our everyday culture, it almost feels like the net has been thrown too wide. I’m attempting to always relate my links to a mode of humour, a critique that uses humour, an unusual message through an unexpected medium or my own analysis and evaluation of an area related to my question.
Perhaps now, I need to begin focussing in more and start sharing the test writing and process here? Or better still, that could occur in my addn2o.tumblr.com blog. Afterall, that was set up specifically for testing.
Early test: Wit and Black Humour.
Testing Area for
A Research Project
by Ela Kosmaczewska
Over the course of the next few months, this will be the supporting site to n2o, the location for experimentation and potential disasters
that are created for my humour and design writing investigation.
For further information on the background to this project, please visit the n2o site.
All comments are welcome, though moderated, just in case someone drops a particularly offensive clanger.
