Reflection: One key thing I’ve personally learnt about noticing environmental damage from the set reading and class discussions is that we need to deeply enter and feel the changes in the environment, and let ourselves be immersed in the environment. As Gibson mentioned in ‘Changescapes’, she said ‘A changescape helps you think and feel so that you are engaged with the flux-infused world, so that you feel informed about that world’s maintenance and motivated by its momentum rather than distressed by its entropy.’ (Gibson,2015) This also shows that we need to interact with the environment so as to better help us feel how the environment is affected by climate change. In this experiment, I mainly focused on the leaves shaking in the wind to show the changes in the environment due to climate. In the video, when there is no wind, the leaves are still, and when there is a strong wind, the leaves start to shake obviously. When the wind blows to the right, the left half of the leaves remain still and only the right half of the leaves begin to shake violently. The stark contrast between the stillness of leaves when there is no wind and the swaying of leaves when there is a strong wind can better reflect the impact of climate change on the environment. I use this shooting technique in the hope that the audience can feel the impact of climate change on the environment through such subtle changes and movements. I want to use this method to make the audience feel as if they are in this environment. If I want to further develop this work, I may change the shooting angle to add pedestrians and the scenery next to it to deepen the audience’s sense of substitution.
Reference: Gibson, R. (2015). Changescapes: Complexity, Mutability, Aesthetics. UWA Publishing.