How can I notice the relationships people have with their surroundings, with particular attention to nature?

In my last assignment my intent was to notice the unseen qualities of natural environments. I achieved this by using a combination of lingering and tuning as tools to focus on different aspects of nature. For this task, our aim is to build upon this approach in order to invite the viewer into our moments of noticing. By noticing, collecting, reflecting, and refining this idea, we intend to highlight the impact that humans have on their natural environment, in addition to those around them. I think that this is an interesting concept to examine as it allows us to create a media artefact that reflects the complexity of the changing world around us and the intersecting of manmade and natural spaces.

While developing our ideas for this assignment we will be continuing to consider how equipment, location, duration, framing, camera movement, and sound offer particular ways of noticing with media, and the development of our project will be informed by academic sources, creative works and discussions and feedback from class. By noticing in this experimental manner, we would like to consider what it allows us to do as nonfiction media practitioners.