Refining:

I really think we have chosen a good prompt, and I really want to say thank you to James for leading me to do record sound in this task. Before participating in task two and studying about sound(week 3), I didn’t consider listening to be a form of noticing, I think the term ‘notice’ is more about seeing something. So I have learned either listening and viewing are a form of noticing, sometimes a sound is more powerful than an image.

I have realized the importance of sound, sound does not only allow as an unlimited field of imagination, it is also helpful for media makers to use when we are blocked by what we can see in front of us. If I am going to make a documentary about a place someday in the future, and I don’t have a good idea for it yet, I think I will set a recorder there and ‘listen’ to the place first. I believe this will give me a lot of inspiration.

I understand that the purpose of a non-narrative film is not to have an exact storyline or meaning to it, the audience is allowed to spread their imagination to understand the film in their own way. But I was still thinking that if a noticing piece like a collection of people crossing the road in CBD, is this consider as a non-narrative? Furthermore, exploring from this task, instead of a well-planned film with a script written, I think to film one’s surrounding like what they might notice, what they don’t and why is that will be even more interesting. Every individual’s interests will vary by the different of cultural background with different experiences, even they are being filmed under the same concept, I think I can expect for different results. And this is what I want to explore further throughout this semester.

Secondly, does non-narrative film confuse people? If they do, then is there a way change this situation I might be able to explore in my further media practices.

The last question I came out from this task was, how might colors affect the way viewers understand a photograph. When I looked back to the photographs I captured in James’ meaningful place, I should capture the tension and the loudness from the photographs but I didn’t, I can only feel the weather’s coldness out of the photo because of the greeny and blue tone.