This week, we shot things we found aesthetically pleasing without much thought, no theme or idea, purely something that visually interested us. My shot consisted of an extreme close up of the textures on a chair that had a nautical, summer feel to it. The drab lighting however was a contrast to the design of the seat so I thought it might be a nice shot. I’ve come to realise I like it when things contrast. For example, when I’m in a ‘quiet’ mood but the weather is nice and sunny, screaming for me to go outside and play (or do some kind of activity) or if I’m in a good mood but it’s raining outside – somehow I seem to enjoy that.

I think that’s why I enjoyed ‘Nostalgia for the Light’. The really nice lighting contrasted with the still images of furniture and shadows. Normally, that kind of nice sunny lighting I would associate with images of childhood, people having picnics, children laughing and playing, yet the mood is quiet, slow, and lazy almost. I have always felt this way about this particular lighting since I was young – not only when I see it in films but also in real life. It might be because when I was young, I was often ill and bedridden when the weather was so nice outside! Don’t know why I’ve come to like this contrast though.

At the end of class, Paul shared a story about a happening in his life he would like to recreate to give us some ideas about where we could gather our own ideas. The problem is, my life is very boring and not interesting at all – something that I’ve come to realise recently. Whenever people ask me, ‘how are you? what have you been up to? tell me story’, I don’t know what to say other than my life is really boring and that there’s not much to it. Even if there is something interesting that happened to me that I’d like to share, I don’t know how to go about it because I’m a horrible storyteller. Probably not something a media student should be saying, but I speak the truth. So then, where do I go to find the inspiration and ‘creativity’ that I seem to lack so much?