One of the tasks left for us to complete over the weekend was to find pieces of a medium (whether that be a film, straight audio or text etc.) that relate to our chosen words and inspire that chosen word and / or the creative process. For both of these pieces, I purely searched the chosen term and a few key words such as “short film” or “video” and “piece” at the end to find these two examples.

For lingering, my first of two chosen terms in Assignment 3, I stumbled upon this short film by a small YouTube channel called “Lingering First Snow – a short film” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jurx_cthSZg). The piece is a two and a half minute creative short film, similar to what we have been shown in class, about the effect that snow has during its first few days in Boston. I feel like the film inspires my understanding and creativity of the term lingering through its shot duration. Some shots are longer and more drawn out, and some a more snappy. These longer shots often contain scenery or objects that would linger after the fall of snow, such as the icicles that hang from the roofs of homes, or the patches of snow that fill the streets. Furthermore, the constantly lacking soundscape could be reflective of the lingering silence that occurs post a sudden change, e.g. snowfall. This symbolic use of sound is definitely something I want to tackle in my Assignment 3.

For encountering, the piece I chose was a home video of  kayakers encountering a school of killer whales, and their genuine reactions to the incident (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYgkWerSstk). The piece itself is the purest form of the term ‘encounter’, and captures the sheer amazement, fear and relief of the experience of having huge killer whales swim underneath your small water vessel. The uncertainty of where and when we are in the video, as an audience member, forces us to live and be immersed within the immediate moment, which is something  I want to explore and experiment with in my Assignment 3.