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If let me describe Experiment 4/5/6 as pearls, I would say “Gathering list” a plate with many pearls of the same variety but with various colours and shapes. I would describe “Explosive list” as a string of pearls on a plate. Infinite list, I would describe it as a string of pearls that you can never see the end.

The way to store things indefinitely in the future is to change stuff into data and save them in the cloud (Manovich 2001, pp. 219). The data becomes a fragment in the network. Everyone can have their fragments and upload them to the network over time, this can form and connect a person in different aspects, (Miles p.75. Cited by Hannah 2021).

I and my peer shows infinite is to use the Instagram account and post plants. Firstly, on the online platform, everyone can upload new fragments constantly. Therefore, as time goes by, there will be more and more elements, as if they never stopped. Secondly, we choose to publish videos and pictures of plants because they will always keep growing. Even when a tree dies, new plants will appear next to it. Moreover, we added a lot of hashtags when publishing. It means that we can represent different topics and posts can reach more people specifically. And those who are interested in this topic will also contribute more content of this topic.

However, the topics that can be added are limited. If you add too many topics, you will lose the content you can publish. Also, in our account, all we send are pictures of plants. To some extent, followers are attracted to plants. If we don’t consistently publish plans anymore we will lose those them. The advantage is that those who are interested in plants will keep an eye on our account, but it will only attract people who are interested in plants.

Overall, this account is a small piece on the beach. If we want to continuously develop accounts and topics in the Ins, we need to produce high-quality content consistently and build our popular IP.

Reference

Manovich, L., 2001. ‘The Database’ in The Language of New Media. The MIT Press, Cambridge. pp. 218-243.

Hannah B., “infinite list workshop slides”, PowerPoint slides, COMM2628, RMIT University, Melbourne.

I was interested in Miles and his peers (2018, pp.306) argues that “Facets are multivalent and entangled points of view” which also point out the idea of multiple simultaneously things reflect in class. This statement, in other words, give me an idea of a string of pearls, and the camera/eye is in the middle of the pearls and looks at them, but I can only see a part of it.

However, when I wanted to present it in the video, I was in trouble. Primarily I want to show the influence of sound. As well as video overlaps, the audio becomes similar to the ambient sound that our original ears can hear. Instead of movie techniques having only one sound focus, it makes the explosive list video more macroscopic. Secondly, I want to imagine the feeling that different videos are connected just like the string. Also, we can see through one small square is limited our view of the surrounding environment. In this video, I want to show these video fragments are strung together like pearls. Of course, this will also lose focus.

Presenting both ideas, I divided the video into two parts, although this may fail. In the first half, I create the first idea, and in the second part, I shot two examples of idea 2.

In the first part, I want to show the scene of many people eating together and the overlap of eating sounds. At this time, I bring up the point I discussed in class, the voice of our neighbours. Moreover, if the window is open, we can also hear The sound from the street and imagine the picture of it. This part sounds noisy.

Next is a relatively simple display of different picture sets of continuous scenes. It’s easy to see that if a director wants to show a complete sight in one plot, he needs to put enough elements in a limited picture.

Overall, This assignment not only gives people infinite divergent thinking but also makes people understand the limitations of media.

Reference

Miles, A., Weidle, F., Brasier, H., Lessard B., 2018. From Critical Distance to Critical Intimacy: Interactive Documentary and Relational Media, in Cammaer, G., Fitzpatrick, B., Lessard, B. (Eds.), Critical Distance in Documentary Media. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, pp. 301–319.

Firstly, from the feedback and a review of my video I found out that the rhythm of my work can be stronger but this is hard to create when there is no music.

Next, for the experiment 4, I watched two examples of “Gathering list” and I find that they are all express an sense emotion rather than action or a thing, and I inspired by them. Also we need to “gathers disparate things together” (Bogost Cited Hannah 2021). Therefore, it must not be a story. To start my idea, I want to shoot “Leisure” or the relaxed feeling. Because the online class needs to be self-discipline and there is no environment, I feel alone and tired to concentrate, it makes me thinking the opposite.

Furthermore, I chose the time after working time about 5 o‘clock to walk around. There’s a lot of people standing along on the street and don‘t know what to do, they looks boring but the time is wasted by themselves. It‘s a choice they decided to relax, they walk slowly and stand loosely. However, after editing, I found all my video are people. From the reading and the feedback from classmates I realized that I should insert more other elements. I shoot again and insert them to the original work. Before, there were only characters as the protagonist, later, I added the lying dog and idle Cafe shop with no one walking around.

Moreover, to make a sharp contrast between noisy street sounds and leisure pictures so I didn‘t change the background music that I record on the street.

Overall, I thought this “gathering work” can be said to be a collection of expressing specific emotions. After I showed these people who were alone, relaxed and free, I also felt the sense of loneliness from these images. So, I think experiment may not be just a simple album of particular emotion, but could be a complex emotions. therefore only one word: leisure.

Reference

Hannah B., “gathering list workshop slides”, PowerPoint slides, COMM2628, RMIT University, Melbourne.