Task Four-Reflection
When I did the first task, I didn’t realize that there is a whole process during this semester. I did Task one for noticing the things that I am really interested in, which is form, shape, color. And during the second Task, when I go to my pair’s location, I noticed a lot of things that I didn’t expect I will notice. To re-see those photos, numbers, and letters are coming up with my photos. Because of it happened, I was trying to find out, if I wasn’t in a big city environment, what can I notice. Then, the idea of movement starts coming up. At the beginning, I decided to explore more about how do other people interpret movement between photos and video. However, when I was doing the final project, I become increasingly aware of the connection between humans and nature.
I went to the place named Plenty Gorge Park, it is a very natural park. It is a very wild and quiet park. So I went to the park, set a 20 mins video, during this 20 mins, every 5 mins I need to take one picture. Lucky, there are a lot of things going on when I was shooting. Then, I back to my apartment, I started to re-watch what I shoot, when I really use the time to watch a natural environment, I was more focus on the patterns and rhythms in the natural rather just the tree, sky, clouds. And then, I ask one of my friends Angelina who doesn’t know anything about my project. I ask her three questions:
What did you notice?
Is there any difference of movement between photos and films?
Did you get bored?
She answered me, she does notice that there are a lot of things going on, the airplane, the trees fell down, the clouds. She thought the photos are more structuralizing, rather the film is more like a documentary. She also said that she got bored at the beginning, but then she started to think, there are so many things happened even just in a natural environment but she never realized before. When she said that, I kind of understand what my purpose of this project. Connect to our second-week reading, there are a lot of things going on in our life, we can give those things a connection. When I did the editing of video, I consider to compare the video and photos, I should put them together as one film, and this way can make audiences also clearly figure out the movement in my final project. To explore more, I think my Task four project is not only about movement, but also deeply about a social phenomenon. As more and more people in a big busy city environment, do people still observe the nature?
We always lost sight of the beauty near us, and I think by doing the whole process of noticing things, I see the unseen now. A lot of things pass through by our life, people normally do care about it, but by ignoring the things near you, you are losing something, whether it a beauty, it an opportunity, it an inspiration…. We should always be passionate about the things near us, that how we can see the unseen!
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