we presented our ideas in class today which was a cool experience. i went into the presentation with a rather unclear frame of mind for the assignment, but it was definitely something that was derivative from what was suggested by Sophie Kim and Hannah after the presentation had concluded.

a brief run down of the presentation is that the ideas weren’t fully formed, and i ended up filming really quite a lot of footage whilst in the whitsundays for the midsemester break and I had filmed a lot of footage of cliffs, planes, and the water. i also found a lot of solace in the use of several multi shot layouts, like layering and split screen shots. I was averse to layering with too much transparency involved as i felt like it diluted the lingering process and praxis, by perhaps diluting the way a shot can linger.

in any case, i was instructed by all three people to focus more on the water side of it all, which i’m currently looking into following through with. while i feel like i could create a work that considers this, i think there is something to be said that the final project should probably explore this but perhaps also go further than? preliminary thoughts here could be driving out to some natural spots and establishing this link between the flora green and the water more, elements of nature that we can tangibly understand. though, for the remainder of this assignment I am curious as to how well i will pursue the sound that i could feature in the work, because as it stands i feel as if there is more that i could do and explore

I’ve found myself stumbling into the actions which are mentioned in this weeks reading in regards to archiving tonight. I was having dinner with some friends and pinpointed with my friend Mitch that there was a picture that I’d sent him in the past that looked suspiciously thematically similar to his album art for one of his musical works. I then spent the rest of tonight looking for the photo, benefiting from being someone that found it important to archive material and finding the picture.

But then I realised of course it goes far beyond this, I think back to the videos I filmed simply speculatively trying to flip it into tangible content later (music videos, etc) and theres just so many files, and duplicates of files scattered everywhere that in this creative praxis is destined to be useful in some manner I would say, perhaps especially if you subconsciously deliberate on a means of documenting, that is all your videos that you film in general fall within lingering, then the follow on effect is that in the future it will be incredibly simple to create finished video works that are just an ensemble of the multitude of archived videos that i have previously filmed. in a way it could ensure that one could continue to have a endless stream of non-fiction work to be created, which seems endlessly beneficial, whilst also being thoroughly rewarding?

i guess that is only if you pick up the option to then create the pieces, otherwise they could just get lost.