Reflection
My understanding of Environment as a focus of the first week consists mainly of emphasising the importance of observation within a place. Whilst an Environment could consist of a place you pass through daily it seems important in this class to begin paying more attention to the details of an environment.
In our first tutorial, Hannah discussed a documentary in which filming was stopped in order to save a colony of penguins. The idea that the crew would not only notice such a thing but continue to pause production to do something about it seems to reflect a significant idea within this class. That is, the importance to note what is happening within a location rather than attending this location in order to create a preconceived idea. This seems especially relevant today as our own eco-system falls further into disrepair due to the ignorance and lack of observation perpetrated by our species.
Within my media artefact, I found the most interesting shot was the second showing the purple wall with a vine growing over it (Argyle Square). I thought its contrast of the natural with the man-made followed our theme in class strongly and its colours provided a nice shot. This was agreed in my group for in-class reflection. My group had a discussion of this theme and it was reflected in a couple of people artefacts. On repetition of this task, I may have focused more of my shots on this idea as it reflected the idea of tutorial more than other shots I took.