Over the weekend, we were asked to produce 2 products, whether they be videos, audio files, text or any other medium we were inspired to create, in response to the two prompts we chose from Assignment 3. The words I chose were lingering and encountering, and I was inspired to produce 2 short test videos in my environment, of things i noticed that I felt connoted my ideas of lingering and encountering.

 Below is a Google Drive link to the two test videos:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1kSV1G8aFJ8EhEdTGs0MHRTmRBvZtPup-

For the one titled “Encountering”, I decided to focus on a small part of my neighbourhood, being the leaves growing off the tree, and observe what other things encountered the world around it. While I started the filming with the intentions of the piece lingering on the branch, I felt the world around the focal point of the video said a lot more. Coincidentally, it was bin day on my street, and the garbage truck was doing the rounds for the houses in the background. Cars also drove passed and other everyday sounds happened in the background. My interpretation of encountering is all about the unfamiliarity, discomfort and uncertainty, and I feel this short shot captures that in several ways. The loud drones of the garbage truck and wind disorientate and discomfort the viewer, and the close up of the plant gives no context to where the shot is being taken, causing a state of unfamiliarity and uncertainty. This was inspired by the uncertain and unplanned video of the killer whales in a previous blog post

Similarly, the video titled “Lingering” is inspired by the long drawn out shots of the Boston snowfall video. In this video, the camera lingers on the focal point, being water in a gutter. This water ripples due to the force of the passing vehicles on the road, highlighting the water the lingering effects of the cars and trams. Furthermore, if the video is silenced, you are unsure of the cause and effect of the ripples, adding a layer of unfamiliarity, like with the previous video.