Firstly I want to note the similarities, before I went to the location I expected a busy atmosphere with traffic due to the central location. This expectation ended up becoming reality, there was quite a lot of traffic with a heavy flow of noises that seemed to linger throughout the park despite its size. I’d say the quietest spot in the park was actually the center of the oval (of course this is because there were no matches or practices on at the time). Differences would be that I expected a few more trees then what there were but It was still a nice location in such a central part of Melbourne.

I think in terms of recording data there are obvious similarities like both of us using photography, a difference between the way we recorded would be the shape of the photographs and camera. I used a Panasonic Lumix GH4 and Sarah used an IPhone5s (both of these have pros and cons a main one being convenience and size vs image quality). My photographs were rectangular and Sarah’s were square which also creates a difference perspective when viewing the photographs. Finally in terms of collecting, I also recorded some environmental sounds with a Zoom microphone. It was interesting to note that it wasn’t a main part of Sarah’s observations as it was to mine.

FAR RIGHT: A photograph I took of the flora in Princes Park.

RIGHT: Sarah’s photograph of flora. Very similar macro perspectives.

I think Sarah used a more convenient method (using an iPhone) which is an object that is easy to carry around and pull out when needed- where as I like to shoot most of my university projects with my Panasonic LUMIX GH4 camera. I think this is a personal preference, I know I like to use my camera as the more I practice with it the better I become with it (and there is never enough practice).

In terms of observing the media captured I think we had similar thoughts as stated previously we both had macro (close up) perspectives of the place and we both took images of things that stood out to us.

I think working on this project has given me an understand on the ways of collecting media; finding commonplace was an important part of my collection. I wanted to find patterns and themes that related as well as contrasts. Of course my themes included rubbish in which I collected various forms of rubbish left within the park.
Again as stated in the ‘prompt’ post my inspiration was from Patrick Pounds exhibition and the way he collected media and the interconnecting relationships between those sets of media. Viewing the collecting as a whole creates a whole different meaning than an individual image. In my case viewing all the images of rubbish shows a completely different situation than just a single image. I like that an image verses the collection as a whole can create and change the way we view the media.