To continue with the discussion Tiahne and I had about Benning’s work, we used the activity during Monday’s class to enhance the idea of letting the camera frame be still and having the noticing encounter the frame, not us trying to find things to notice. Therefore we used the idea of continuing to film people cross the road when the green man is present, until the red man is present, and people can no longer cross the road, right up until another person presses the traffic light button , wanting to cross the road again, waiting for the green man. This was an interesting activity, as we did not put any time limit on the filming, we were happy to continue filming for as long as it would take for a person to press the button. We repeated this video 5 times, the 4 out of 5 times we filmed this activity, the videos were all relatively the same length, as it took a similar amount of time for a person to press the traffic light button each video, except for the last video. We had to keep filming for around 4 more minutes, as it took longer for the button to be pressed. It was interesting to notice the reasoning behind this, as perhaps the button was pressed from the other side of the road, and an invisible pattern began to occur of people entering the frame continuing to not press the button as they relied on the person in front of them.

During Wednesday’s class we began to really think about the words that we are using for inspiration for assessment 3, such as encountering, wondering, tuning, priming, lingering etc.. I specifically chose to focus on the words encountering and lingering. For the word encountering I thought of people unexpectedly bumping into each others, or purposely seeing each other, a harmful conflict between people and places or things, or a peaceful interaction. For lingering I instantly thought of something lasting with a shot lasting a long duration.