This reading is about how people may notice encounters ecologically. As in the book, ‘Encountering the world: Toward an Ecological Psychology’, it makes reference to what J.J Gibson used to say about encountering, that “specific to the organism in its environment, information enables me to encounter my surroundings, to regulate my encounters and to be aware of my activities in the living world.”(Pg 7). This source does relate to noticing nonfiction through media as it refers to the different ways in which encountering can happen, which allows me to want to film those encounters to have my audience notice more about encountering throughout nonfiction. I would like to use this quote to influence the types of encounters I will film.

This reading helps me to try to think outside of the box when I think about what encounters I could potentially notice and film. Also the idea of regulating my encounters is interesting as perhaps keeping track of the encounters I notice will be helpful as I go about filming. As whilst I regulate and keep note of the encounters I notice, I could perhaps place the encounters into categories, depending on the types of encounters within nature I come across. This reading has enabled me to realise there are no boundaries when it comes to nature, and this does seem overwhelming. However I could tune in on specific forms of nature. Like the reading suggests, to be specific to the organism in its environment, is to focus on literally, specific organisms in an environment as well as in a figurative sense, be specific about what I notice.

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