Task Three: Week 5 ‘Describing Individuals Drawings’
Title: Noticing in Drawing
‘Ingredients’
- three subjects – individual one (original describer), individual two (first drawer and second describer) and individual three (third drawer).
- Video Camera (which I will film on)
- Paper (three pieces) as well as colours/pen etc.
‘Method’
- Individual no 1 – they will describe the drawing of the house to the second individual, who will attempt to draw it in detail.
- Once they have drawn, I will get individual number two to describe their photo to individual number three – who will draw what they describe.
- I will get individual number three to describe to me what they think their drawing is.
- I will compare what I not only noticed about the differing drawings but how the individuals attuned to noticing through doing this experiment.
FILM
Reflection
From this activity, I not only noticed what individuals see from an image but how people notice and choose to describe things in different ways. From the three individuals taking and describing, you can tell the slight differences in which individuals decided the draw the drawing (which was a row of three houses). From this, you could also conclude that individuals notice different things in different ways – for example, what someone reflects on from a photograph that someone else does not notice about it, or seeing different colours, shapes or details in a place. This was apparent in my ‘test’ – “Drawing” as both the three individuals had different interpretations of what was being described to them, although they were similar in some ways. They all got the general layout of the drawing: the three houses, the colours etc. However, the little details are something that differed amongst all the photos – something you could say that could connect to attuned noticing and what people notice in a place, as discovered from this ‘experiment’.
From this experiment, I could connect it to discussions we had in class, particularly regarding the film ‘Ten Skies” and “13 Lakes”. Both these films are interpretive documentaries, designed to make the viewer consider their own circumstantial differences to the main character in both of the documentaries. Similarly, the reading “Ten Skies, 13 Lakes, 15 Pools – Structure, Immanence and Eco-Aesthetics in The Swimmer and James Benning’s Land Films.” also connected the ideas of categorical and circumstantial thinking, as described by the quote about the directorial ideas of the author “Benning is generally seen to be making structural films of landscapes, because he follows a predetermined structure, such as that, the duration of a shot is the length of a reel of film”, thus, this is something that I tried to follow throughout my exercise as all individuals had a ‘pre-determined role’ in the outcome based on their psychological choices. Panse further concludes “Individual psychology is ‘determined by a transcendental topology’ (ibid.). The ‘subjects’ of structuralism ‘are above all the places in a topological and structural space defined by relations of production’ (ibid.). Although this quote sounds frivolous and hard to get a grasp around, it is simply put as all humans having a different view and thought of a piece due to their biological makeup and their own personalized experiences. After learning how people use description to interact – how do people perceive colour when describing certain places and people?