Personally, I believe my noticing experiment responded to my prompt word encountering quite successfully. However for my specific type of video I need to think about the audience response to the video, I was not the one in the video that encountered something. Therefore from an audience perspective, I believe the audience could successfully comprehend what was occurring in the video, and through thinking in another type of way or by looking through a unique lens, it can become clear that the video is all about the encountering of ingredients. I believe that the shots themselves demonstrate the encountering of ingredients, and that it does come across in a clear manner to the audience. However due to individual audience opinions, perhaps my video may not come across as encountering as there are no people in my video and perhaps some simply may not see what occurs in my video as encountering. Yet I do think I do a good job of making it clear to the audience what my opinion of encountering is, and what thoughts I am trying to create.

Through making this project I have learnt that noticing nonfiction, especially nonfiction one would perhaps usually not notice, can more likely occur through a still frame shot. For example the noticing/encountering occurring within a still frame comes across extremely obvious which is what I want, because the frame itself is so still that anything that moves, even in a subtle way, is obvious movement. I came to learn this through practice, yet also by watching James Benning’s videos such as ‘Small Roads’ which enabled me to see clear evidence as to how still frames, be wide shot or close up, can open a viewers eyes to noticing any details of nonfiction. The quote from the James Benning reading “we see everything that moves because the camera doesn’t”, expresses exactly how I feel towards still shots with noticing in nonfiction. The word encountering itself is a very broad word that I have learnt has unlimited definitions. As my initial brainstorm for that word was very literal and included people bumping into each other unexpectedly etc. Yet the more I thought outside the box and let the inspiration come to me, I realised to film and notice encountering from a unique and close up way and to not include people would be quite challenging, yet interesting. As the overall purpose behind my video was to allow the audience to shift their perspective on what encountering means to them, and get the audience to see encountering can occur with literally any aspect of nonfiction, and most likely nonfiction us humans don’t usually notice or think about.

For assignment 4, I will continue to work further on the idea of close up or extreme close up shots of encountering occurring through nonfiction, such as nature or weather as I think they are both fascinating aspects of nonfiction that humans can definitely not notice in this materialised, industrial world. I think what I can refine for assignment 4, and what was an issue in assignment 3, is to have my shots focus just on the encountering in the frame, as I will try to make sure my hand or shadow is not in any part of the frame, as that can be a bad distraction.