After completing our final edit, we are focusing on preparing for the exhibition to be held in Week 13. This involves planning what will be required to set up, run and pack down the exhibition and visiting the physical exhibition space. Before the exhibition we will also need to prepare our poster, which will include a still from the project as well as the log-line guiding our assignment. The log-line we chose to reflect our assignment is:

A tool for noticing the relationships people have with their natural and manmade surroundings is lingering and observing different environments.

We have also decided on a final name for our assignment: build | grow. I feel that this best reflects our concept as it describes the interconnected nature of the natural and manmade in our world. While the words ‘build’ and ‘grow’ reflect the building of the industrial world and growing of the natural world, it also gives an insight into the establishment of human relationships and our impulse to build and grow ourselves. This was also inspired by the ideas explored in Screening Nature: Cinema beyond the Human by Pick and Narraway, as they argue that “treating non-human environments as mere backdrops or mise en scene […] divides up the frame between the human and non-human in ways that overlook their essential interdependence and reinforces the culture/nature dualism” (2013, pg. 7). We would like to highlight through this project that while humans tend to be focused on our progression as a society, we should also stop to think about the environments around us and the impact that we are having on natural spaces.

This week we are also thinking back on ideas from Treske’s Video Theory: Online Video Aesthetics or the Afterlife of Video. In it Treske discusses online video as an “essential element of expression” (p. 18, 2015) and that we are “constantly creating, modifying and tinkering with new atmospheres of being and togetherness” (p. 19, 2015). This idea is especially relevant to our assignment as by presenting our work on this platform, we intend to create an atmospheric experience which invites the viewer into our moments of noticing in these spaces.