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.
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.
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.
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.
What I learn today?
Today’s class is really helpful, Professor talked lots of information and knowledge about the understanding of Ian Bogost’s book and ideology. I arrived late, so missed the first 30 mins. I will talk about the knowledge and information that leaved me a deep impression.
For example: what can sound recorder/camera/editor do to make a film? What machine can do? I agree that in lots of essay we need to discuss that what’s the meaning of something. In this case, the essay and the content will be sublime to some extent. But we need to think back that what do they do, which helps us to do practice, not the ideology discussion. What writing do? What editing can do？ Writing is telling a story, then editor is work about relationship in time, based on color and others things. Like me, what I can do in our soundtrack project? The subject of our project is a room, then we chose kitchen. Then, what the staff in the kitchen can do, what sound they can make? To think about these questions can really help us to rich our soundtrack.
Subject: A Room
What qualities did you notice that matters?
I will say this in two parts, one is about the judgement comment paper, the other one is watching the videos. To be honest, I am not that good at this kind of comment, although I do think there are something need to be improved and changed. But I think that maybe this is the personality they have. Anyway, when we are responsible for the comment paper, we need to be serious to the paper, because they are looking forward this. The second part is about when we are watching videos, keeping quite and no judgement during the watching process. I think we all done very well.
What feedback would you give your own work?
Of course, the thing that disappointed me most is the soundtrack. I can’t hear it clearly either most of my classmates. Because of the low voice, most of them can’t give a current comment. Except this, the next one is about the copyright. I have to say that all the images and videos I used are from the website CC Search. Next time if I gonna use the images, videos or music from this website I will add the resources of those at the end of the video.