In the two-minute test video, I tried to use the elevator as the transition effect, along with the opening of the elevator door to show different scenes. Among them, the ideas of the footages which are shooting pedestrians crossing the road, playing table tennis, the uni’s sky garden are working. In the busy life on weekdays, people always walk with “purpose”. For example, when I want to walk from building10 to building12, I will choose the same route every time, the purpose is to reach building12 quickly, and as I am too familiar with this route, so I didn’t pay special attention to and discovered some things on the road. The tram, the chair and the traffic lights are not working because they are easy to notice and people always use them in the daily life. From the reading, “Different facets, different networks, all relations. These are some of the relational lines that might run with an ordinary teaspoon.”(2018) There are certain connections in any different things. It seems that there is no correlation between these footages taken so far, but in fact they have some relationship and commonality. This gives me lots of inspiration in editing, and I will connect them together by finding and discovering the relationship between them, rather than bluntly splicing them all together. In the final media artefact, I will still use the elevator as the transition effect to show different scenes, while also showing a timeline from going out during the day to going home at night. From the feedback, I need to collect more clips from top, look up and other different perspectives, find and grab more unnoticed qualities.

Reference: Miles, A., Weidle, F., Brasier, H., Lessard, B., 2018. From Critical Distance to Critical Intimacy: Interactive Documentary and Relational Media, in: Cammaer, G., Fitzpatrick, B., Lessard, B. (Eds.), Critical Distance in Documentary Media. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, pp. 301–319.

How to find the unnoticed thing from daily life and common thing by using the idea from finding the nature is the question that firstly come up from our group, and we chose flagstaff park and Carlton garden as the potential environments. This question and the choice of place is obviously the existence of an issue. So after getting the feedback, we changed the initial idea to how can we notice unnoticed qualities in our daily lives and common things? In later works, we will focus on unnoticed qualities and daily lives. As a full-time uni student, my daily life is study in uni, and I live in an CBD apartment that close to the uni, so I set the potential environments to the way to campus and in campus. From the reading, “ ‘That’s an interesting tension,’ she acknowledged, ‘because my intention with settling is to pay attention to the place.’”(2018) It presents an environment needs to takes time to observe in order to find something that is ignored in the environment or a small change. For example, in order to find the qualities of lights, the different shape, color or brightness of the lights, I need to spend time to find and observe to find out. “A sat low to the earth, listening, exuding her usual air of calm. Nearby fell a rain of leaves.” This is a good expression, telling me that I need immerse myself in the environment to feel the environment and feel the bit of change and things that have not been noticed before in the environment.

Reference: Carlin, D. (2018) Fieldwork, Sydney Review of Books.

In this week’s reading, l’m interested in a sentense “get a feeling for the way”, it can regard as a feeling of the way something is trending. The dynamics of an environment can manifest itself in the things that exist in itself, and of course from the characters and animals that exist in the environment. In the flagstaff garden, grass, trees, flowers, plants and various amusement facilities are all in existence, and their dynamics are the primary task. I tried to capture the state of several different kinds of flowers and added transition effects to show their vitality. Secondly, people and animals that interact with the environment are also my focus on the relationship between the living things and plants. In the second half of the media artefact, I focused on the dynamics of humans and animals that exist in the environment. This part begins with the bird and the dog, showing the interaction between living things and the lawn. The next step is to use the sub-lens to show the vitality and vitality of the children when using the rides. Of course, there are adults who play rugby on the lawn. Their pleasure and vitality are fully demonstrated, which is inseparable from environmental factors. The final piece is to compare the unmanned course with the course being played, and the appearance of obvious teenagers adds a lot of fun to the otherwise inactive stadium. What I need to improve this time is to increase the lens of the environment itself, and to express the vitality of the plant through different lenses.

The key rhythm of this week is messy which is a a variety of meanings, composed of a variety of meanings. From the in-class discussion, I think there are many reasons for messy, such as weather, seasons, the level of the wind, the number of the rubbish, human, animals and so on. Therefore, in this media artefact, I try to show the impact of the weather, season, and wind on the environment. Specifically, I used a sub-lens to show the changes of the same lawn in different seasons. The leaves of the pine trees grow differently from the ones after they fall off. The level of the wind affects the movement of the branches, and the branches do not know where to come from. The plastic bag, but it should not have been there, the same species of trees in the same season, even a very lush growth, the other tree is completely dying, and the roadside trees do not know why Next, uprooted. I think these are the uncertainties in the environment. Many phenomena make me wonder why. In the process of editing the video, I used a lot of sub-shots to compare, hoping to present “messy” more clearly. I think I should look for and observe more messy factors and show it in media artefact. There are also more angles to shoot, and it should take more time for the editing of the sound, because the sound is also a good way to express “messy”.