I didn’t expect that, Adrian gave us essay feedback just in minuets after I arrive the class. Yeah I was very nerves, I did care about that. Well finally I got the feedback, it was CR, fine.
Adrian spent a lot of time to mark essays, I can clearly see that he was very serious, he marked almost every paragraphs. All right, be positive, let’s fight for the DI next time. I think I need to go back and try to figure out those marks and notes on my essay from Adrian.
The good news is Nina has done the sound track at the weekend, Joel will edit the sound track, he is a really good sound editor! We all feel confident in him.
Nina will go to NZ on Monday. So Cameo, Joel and me will be responsible for the rest.
Cameo suggested that we could make a time lapse of sky, I like the idea, although it will waste time. But I think only to film the sky changes is not creative and surprised enough, so I suggested that we can use mirror. Because I want to present the Optical principle of camera, let the mirror reflect the sky then we just need to focus on the mirror. We don’t need to film the sky directly.
In our discussion in class, our rough ideas and structure:
For the new sound track, we narrow our subject on the lens. We will record sounds from lens, zoom in and zoom out, set the lens on the camera, break the lens, attention!! All these sound will be recorded from different types and brand (factory or company).
For the video track that we response to the soundscape from German, we are going to do similar thing like the video track. We are going to use different kinds of camera to shoot one subject, with different lens. We want to present that different camera set with couples of lens can do diverse views. Some view are narrow, and some are broader. We think that will be really interesting.
However, Professor Miles give us some suggestions. There is one that I think is very necessary, Adrian mention that our plan about the video track is not good enough. If we shoot on a tree in the garden or anywhere, people’s attention will be attracted by the tree, different kinds of tree under different facilities. What we need to do is to attract people on the list, let them know that our subject is lens or camera, not the tree.
Today is Thursday, but at the beginning I want to mention that next week is the Easter Holiday, and we will have a week to enjoy the holiday and the coming assessments.
Since last Thursday, our project noticing 2 had done. We started to read chapter three of Bogost’ book. Unfortunately, I was busy with other assessments from other courses, I didn’t have enough time to finish the chapter three. I think that this situation not only happened to me, but lots of students in the studio.
That was the reason the atmosphere in Tuesday class was so that quite and you know. Professor Miles almost spent the whole class to talk alone, less students responded to him.
I have to say that that was a bad participation in the Tuesday class.
Going to be crazy in the class because of the essay.
Yes we spent almost the whole class to write and edit out essay, actually I am happy with this. Because I was waiting for Professor Miles’s suggestions of my essay, I did worry about my essay. By the way, I didn’t finish the chapter three.
Miles gave me a lot off suggestions, thanks Miles. There was a point that I remember, Miles said I can take a list as a invitation, but I think that a list is more similar to a order. Although these two words are different, basically the action is letting people to do something.
A convivial making!
I have to say that this time, in the soundscape making process, Joel and Nina spent more time and energy than me and Cameo. Nina was responsible to the recording part, and Joel was responsible to the editing part. At the beginning, we had a good and crazy brainstorm, this was the part I think convivial.
The truculent clamour of things.
Actually we didn’t argue too much on soundscape, so the word ‘truculent’ could not describe our job process correctly. We didn’t affair to tell each other our own ideas, and we tried our best to put everyone’s good ideas together in a soundscape. Then we listened to the soundscape when Joel done the edition, telling him what we think to improve.
During the time I am writing the essay, again and again to read back in order to make sure I didn’t stray from the point. “without explication” and “greater attentiveness” are key words in the essay, explaining how the soundscape draw great attention on the items or locale.
I always keep myself to talk around the quote with the soundscape. Now I want to say out something I figure out during the writing process, but I don’t know whether they are right.
A list of objects without explication, just like a list of orders without explanation . Those independent words in a list, or the voice, attracting people with no reasons. A list of objects without explication is very simple and pure, nobody forcefully add their mind on those objects. Literature that Ian Bogost says in his book, to some extant, is full of human subjectivity and individual ideology. Back to the list, just like back to the origin. Back to the items or other objects from explications (other people’s ideology).
When we are reading a story or narrative, our mind will follow the story line, even the ideology and Weltanschauung created by author, namely, our mind are controlled by author. We won’t focus on items that included in the story or narrative, story line is more attractive. However, a list of objects without explication has a power that draw greater attentiveness on objects. Actually, I want to say that the power of a list of objects without explication is currently correspond to a ability of human. The ability is the reaction of the world. What is that? This question I think could be a typical reaction of human to this world.
We received many feedback from other classmates, first of all, thanks everyone.
I have to say that we made a big mistake that we forgot to record the read of our script. Soooo sad. Worse more, we can’t add it because those students in Germany have received our soundscape.
Sounds, last week we have uploaded and gave our soundscape to Offenburg in German, and today we received and listen to the sounds from Offenburg made by those Germany students. Their soundscapes are really interesting, fortunately they record that in English not in Germany, so we can understand.
What we will do for the next step is that thinking about the video to response soundscape from the Group four in German. This time we will focus on an object that expand.