Why make a flashmob?

"A flash mobs purpose is to show off the creative and randomness of a group of people to entartain a group of people other than the flash mobbers and then to reform with the natural grouping........PLUS ITS REALLY REALLY REALLY FUN!!!!!!!!" - robberts8 from http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Start-A-Flash-Mob/

Instructional Website

Good Instructional website!

http://www.wikihow.com/Organize-a-Flash-Mob

Other flashmob ideas

• Ice cream social - A large group of teenagers in Belarus stood and ate ice cream for ten minutes in a big public area
• Chicken feeding - A girl spread out bread crumbles on the ground and people acting like chickens came and started to pick around the spot where she had spread out bread (watch it here ->  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3getP2Gu0A&feature=related)
• Bubble blowing - everybody blew bubbles
• Laugh mob - A group of people laughs for 10 minutes (not so organized, but funny)
• Bicycle tricks, dance, and singing at a train station

• A huge freeze - Everybody froze in a supermarket in different positions
• Pillow fight 

Other flashmobs

Finished flash mobs
http://improveverywhere.com - a good place for inspiration
Here's two flashmobs that I really like;

http://improveverywhere.com/2009/10/20/grocery-store-musical/

Where: supermarket

Who: 5 participants

When: anytime

What: Singing about fruits

How: Their own voices, fruit from the supermarket, a speaker with music, and microphone

Where: On the streets of a city

Who: more than 1,000 participants

What: People walking around with invisible dogs

How: Acting as if they had a dog in an empty leech, pretended to pick up poop on the ground, patted the dogs

When making a flashmob dance, it can be very simple. This one dance below contains of two moves, so it's very simple, but it's still funny. Found it on youtube.

Chosen: FLASHMOB!

Things flash mobs can be useful for

• Giving a message
• Commercial for a product or service
• Political purposes
• Publicity stunt
• Entertaining
• World Record

Ways to do a flash mob

• A choreographed dance
• Singing – opera, yodeling or a pop hit
• Acting – such as walking your invisible dog
• Miming – pretending to be trapped behind a wall
• Freeze – everybody freezes for five minutes in a supermarket
• Costumed – dress out to a cartoon, santa claus, or zombies and walk across a public place
• Eating – an ice cream social
• Sleeping – going to bed in the library

When to do it

• Use an existing event to spread happiness – wedding, graduation, anniversary
• When there's a lot of people around (if you want it to be seen by many) maybe on a saturday afternoon or saturday night if it's in the city

Where to do it

• Public place – in the city, in a mall, in a restaurant, supermarket
• Smaller place – on the train, bus, working place (construction site)
• School

How to do it

• Decide the message of the flash mob
• Choose way I want to give the message
• Create it
• Find a group of people who are willing to perform it – create facebook event, text message around, etc.
• Rehearse it
• Perform it!
• Reflect on it

Start the Personal Project - taken from itslearning

1.
AOI Context - Which Area of Interaction (AOI) will you use as the context for your personal project? Explain the reasons why you have chosen this AOI.
Svara
I will use Approaches to learning because I need to discover effective ways of teaching people something in my project.

2.
Topic for investigation -  You were asked two weeks ago to read through the document How do I start the Personal Project? and to start answering the questions given in order to pick a possible topic to investigate. From the list you have made, which topic... ....appeals to you the most? ... fits in with what you already do? ... will be challenging enough to keep you interested over several months? Make a choice. Pick one topic and explain why you have chosen this topic and how it fits under your AOI.
Svara
I will use Approaches to learning because I want to discover new ways of learning and making things. I have chosen to make a flashmob where I choreograph a dance piece for many people, and then we all perform it in a public place, spontaneously. This fits under approaches to learning because I have to figure out a way to teach a lot of people my choreography so that it is organized and everybody can remember it.

3.
Inquiry question - Brainstorm possible inquiry questions for your project.
Svara
How can I teach a big group of people (at least 20 people) a dance choreography?

4.
Deciding on the outcome or product - Will it be a performance? A published writing? An event? A static visual display? An interactive display? Depending on your project you might combine two or more of these ideas to create your product in response to the inquiry question.
Svara
It will be a performance and an event.

5.
Creating specifications - You will need to create specifications for your outcome or product. They are the way you will know you've achieved your goal. What are your specifications for your outcome or product?
Svara
My outcome will be a video of when the flash mob is in action.

6.
Resources - Make a list of the resources you will need to consult to complete your research (people, community services, electronic and print resources, etc.). Note: your list will grow when you do your research.
Svara
People, electronic resources.

7.
Process - List and number the steps you will undertake to achieve your goal. Be as specific as you can when detailing the tasks you will need to complete in order to achieve your final results. (This list will grow later!).
Svara
1. Make the choreography 2. Find people who wants to participate in a flashmob 3. Teach it to them 4. Find place to perform it 5. Perform it

8.
Process Journal - Which format will you use for your process journal ? Are you still unsure? Check the Process Journal power point on it's learning.
Svara
A scrapbook and/or a blog.

9.
How will you present your product/outcome in the Personal Project Exhibition?
Svara
Pictures, and a video of the flash mob.

Choosing topic..

STEP ONE DECISION: AREA OF INTERACTION

The area of interaction I will use as the context for my Personal Project is: Human ingenuity

I have chosen this area of interaction because I want to explore…

How I can change people's mood and feelings, or make them consider something new that they have never thought about before.

MY CURRENT ACTIVITIES

Currently, the things I am involved in or do at school, with clubs or social groups are:

I dance

I play drums

I sing

PERSONAL ENJOYMENT AND RELAXATION

Currently, the things I enjoy doing for relaxation or fun are:

Talking

Drawing

Photography

Dance

Sing

Read

Listen to music

Play drums

IMPORTANT THINGS TO ME

Currently, the most important things to me are:

Family

Friends

Have fun

Learn

IMPORTANT ISSUES AND MATTERS TO PEOPLE MY AGE

Currently, the things I think people my age are concerned about are:

Relationships

Friendships

Fashion

Status

IMPORTANT ISSUES AND MATTERS TO THE WORLD

Currently, the things I think people around the world are concerned about are:

Money

Education

Transport

Friendships

Love

STEP TWO DECISION: TOPIC FOR INVESTIGATION

The topic I will investigate for my Personal Project is:

Dance!

I have chosen this topic because…

I enjoy doing this the most out of all of my activities and hobbies.

The topic fits under the area of interaction human ingenuity

because…

By creating a dance and then performing it in public will get people to top and stare. Therefore, we will get people's attention, and we can give them our message. The message could be anything, and people will still watch it out of curiosity, because not a lot of people just goes and performs in public spontaneously.