During Mondays class of week 9, I wrote down a rough plan and vision for how I want the process of making my video to be, in terms writing down the biggest idea, big and smallest ideas for my video. In the biggest section I wrote that what I want to achieve for assignment 4 is, to enable my audience to notice their surroundings within nonfiction that includes encounters which involve elements of nature, non-human being organisms such as bugs, and the weather such as wind and rain. I want to do this through filming these encounters between nature using extreme close up shots via an iphone, as an iphone will allow me to get as close as I need to the nature. Therefore the overall biggest thing I want to film and achieve in one sentence, is I want my audience to be exposed to different types of encounters within nature  that usually goes unnoticed.

The ‘big’ steps I wrote down that are involved in achieving ‘the biggest thing’ were to explore outside and open my eyes to see the types of encounters that involve nature. To film up to between 20 seconds to 1 minute of each type of encountering moment I notice and if the sound in the footage is very prominent, I will re record just the sound of the encountering to maybe overlay in the editing if it works. However the first big step before the filming begins is doing research on the idea of encountering between organisms and not humans. So far between weeks 9 and 10 I have come across two readings, Screening Nature: Cinema beyond the Human by A. Pick and G. Narraway and Encountering the World: Toward an Ecological Psychology by E. Reed, which I go into further detail in my Research Blog Posts. This academic research has enabled me to think further about non human contact or impact when it comes to encountering within nature, and what sorts of encounters naturally happen all the time without human interaction or interference.

Therefore, after I did my research, I understood a unique way to film was to focus on filming extreme close up shots of encountering occurring within nature. To try to achieve this, I decided to literally go for a walk along the river near my house. During my first walk I did try to focus on small encounters particularly between bugs. For example I filmed close up shots of ants encountering leaves or trees, or bees encountering flowers. I focused mainly on filming close up shots of bugs, live organisms that encounter nature, moments of nonfiction that humans do not tend to notice.