In the end, I captured three videos. I think this really helps me understand how difficult this studio can be in the sense that noticing and marking are facets that are really so easily ignored, which I guess is that purpose of this exercise. I would say that the amount of times I probably could have noticed myself a reflection of myself eating a few more times, and that the amount of times in total I could’ve seen such a thing, throughout a day was probably closer to double digits that it wasn’t. So i think theres a bit from me to understand in terms of how I’m marking.

In any case I kind of like, when i did mark and notice, how the videos ended up looking while I was filming them. I think they capture how simple a reflection can be as a bare facet or condition for the nature of filming. I think some questions I have for the rest of this studio that I still want to ascertain is again perhaps how I will not fabricate noticing if I’m not filming things live? and maybe how I personally can maintain a level of fluidity in my filming.

Whenever I think non-fiction, I don’t think my brain will ever be trained to not instantly think books first, and something like the Guinness Book of World Records’ 1977-2005 copies that were scattered all over my primary school’s library. I understand non-fiction to mean fact, and truthful, though when I think about why the decision may have been to use the words non-fiction, as opposed to documentary, I kind of first assume that whilst what we will be trying to document are non-fictitious, I guess I thought the words being more of a blight on the potential loaded bias that exists in documentary occasionally, perhaps sometimes inescapably so, though I’m not actually sure this is actually why this has been done for this studio. In fact, I don’t think so at this point, it kind of seems like the use non-fiction is geared more towards moving past the typical format of documentary on top of this bias.

In the Shield reading I think it helps contextualise for me, through its conglomeration of non-fictional thoughts, or written excerpts, to help us gain an understanding for what non-fiction consists of and the space which non-fiction operates in, being far reaching and quite illustrative as the only category that it needs to really fall in is that it is non fictitious. Though in that respect, I think the saying or thought “All the best stories are true” really fuels the flame as to what non-fiction could be, as here I feel like the word true doesn’t necessarily being 100% fact, but rather maybe like, genuine? Or something in that respect

Prior to beginning this studio, I feel like I’d relate noticing very highly with awareness and maybe the extent to one’s own acknowledgement of this awareness. On a baseline, I think concepts pertaining to noticing have always existed in media making to at least the extent, like in cinematography, where if someone notices something in a shot, they might be geared towards focusing on that facet of the shot.

Since beginning this studio I’ve been alarmed as to how my understanding of the concept of ‘noticing’ has pivoted. I feel like in the same way that Hannah noticed this Mason textbook – originally geared towards teaching – to be attune to an ideal media making praxis I was alarmed. Though I guess noticing is a rather unorthodox and new – at least to my own knowledge – as a media making praxis. I think the notions of noticing, marking and recording raised in Mason’s reading, and further the means that was discussed in the class on Monday, where it was mentioned that we could possibly making a comparison between production stages (pre, and post included). In regards to this I kind of can see it a lot, but also think that in this thought, noticing, marking and recording seem to cover more so the pre-production and production aspects only, leaving leeway for post-production to be uncovered by this analogy/thought. Pre-production in a way is both noticing and marking, so that is more expansive. Then I guess, that means post-production is a thought process that is wide open, which might be something we’re as a class being encouraged to think? Hmm might go drink some tea