Week four exercise

The embedded work

Synopsis

This work based around the prompts of sight and silent footage with narration is about looking into the sky and making shapes and playing with light, how this triggers memories and emotions and how it is inevitably always there.

My discovery about the experience of light and vision

My discovery of light and vision this week revolved around my changed perception of vision as something controlled by light. This also directly and intensely influences emotions of images. The more something is blurry the more I wish to find out what it is and the more I feel the texture as I am paying close attention to the image. I explored this primarily through placing green screen effects on my work to see how when different levels of light were taken away what the effect can be.

Reflection – What worked well/ What didn’t work so well

I believe that the use of childhood videos worked well within this work. I like the stylistic choices I made in editing and hopefully this allows a more cohesive collection of works to form through style as well as theme. I think that the work lacks direction and purpose. I think in my head it made sense and had a narrative but in reality and practice it does not. I wish I had spent more time writing a poetic script in a more creative manner.

This weeks reading

Within this weeks reading of ‘The eye of the storm: visual perception and the weather’, Visual Studies 20, 2: 97-104 by Ingold, T. (2005) page 98 get us to think differently about sight by getting us to notice how we think about sounds and how the way we think about sounds is usually different than sight but it shouldn’t be. We talk about how we hear sounds rather than the object that make the sounds, when talking about sight we say we see the object rather than the actual thing in which we are perceiving which is the light that reflects off the object. This piece allowed me to lower vision on the pedestal I hold it on and align it with other senses such as touch as sound. Both sound and vision have similar ways of perception that this reading exposed me to thinking about.  For example, we hear sound waves and we see light rays, the object we see is the reflection of light rather than just the object itself. (T. Ingold, 2005) This completely changes my ideas surround how I see. With light now as the most important aspect. I plan to directly take this idea and use it as a new way of filming my footage.

Peer feedback for assignment one

Within the class peer review session we all struggled to identify extremely clear themes in any offer works. Although similarities these came across more in editing style and aesthetic choices. However, some pointed out my constant reflection on mental health and the effect the isolation has on my story and the people within. I at first viewed this as more of a personal exposure rather than a reflection of current times but I believe my peers to be correct as I reflect heavily on events surrounding my life. The dark nature of the works is consistent in works two and three. Work one was an outlier and I am happy to disregard it as forming my theme as I was most unhappy with its outcome.

Self reflection on themes in assignment one

Much like my classmates, within assignment one I struggled identifying an overwhelmingly clear theme. However, I think the most consistent is the theme around isolation and more specifically how my personal perspective has changed to the things which surround me and now engulf my everyday life. The different media forms also create a lack of continuous aesthetic qualities and for this reason and observation I would like to make all of my media works for my collection cohesive and like in video form. I think instead of trying to manifest a theme that is vague and not truly present within my past media woks from weeks one to three I would like to begin a new one. At the moment I think this will be on familiarity and how my comfort has transformed into anxiety as a result as this is the theme that interested me most within assignment one.

References 

Ingold, T. (2005) ‘The eye of the storm: visual perception and the weather’, Visual Studies 20, 2: 97-104