For this week’s response for dynamic, I tried to show the different facets of the area in terms of how busy it can get and also how peaceful it can be as well at, specifically at night time. The edit was paramount in this, utilizing cutting between night and day and changing cut speed to aid in showing dynamism within the space. I also utilized a bit of voice over, continuing from the exercise in class last week, to aid in getting my point across by recontextualizing the space as an artery in the city’s circulatory system. I think it’s effective as the analogy of beating fast and beating slow ties in well with the space being busy and empty and also being a method of transporting. In terms of the reading from last week, St George’s road is a changescape in the sense that it is made up of systems and not structures (2015, p. 10). Each of the individual ‘capillaries’ make up an ‘artery’ which are then part of the circulatory system’ of the city. Each aspect interacts with others and changes how the environment interacts with itself and its inhabitants as a whole. When deliberating over this, I couldn’t help but think where is the boundary for a changescape? Is there one?

music credit in the video: myself

References:

Gibson, R. (2015) ‘Changescapes – An Introduction’, in Changescapes: Complexity, Mutability, Aesthetics. Crawley, WA: UWA Publishing, pp. 1–20.