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