REFLECTION 3 – DON’T TELL A STORY

Along with Robin doing his magnificent impression of a basic story-teller from what I could only describe was from the stone-age, I actually took away a few things in class this. The few main key words that stuck out for me was the phrase “Don’t tell a story”

Robin described how the whole process of us writing down these observations were about grabbing what you are observing, and completely not focusing on anything. It’s supposed to be a moment we capture, that has either interested you somehow, or just something you remember on a quiet day. I found this helpful advice, especially as we are coming closer to the mid-semester break and have been doing these observations for over a month. I was loosing focus on what an observation was, since it was drawing to the point where we will eventually have to look at these observations are inspiration for a film eventually, I kinda worried that I was skipping ahead to the narrative part, but like Robin said

“Narrative is not a priority”

This has definitely alleviated a little stress when I was overthinking my recent observations and blog posts. I’m not used to writing unstructured things, because it was always easier to follow a formula, or framework wit guidelines. But this is teaching me to trust in my own way of writing and documenting of events and things, and with no pressure to make it entertaining or funny helps a lot.

This has also let me create my own style of writing. I know Robin says that we shouldn’t have a great style in mind, but it doesn’t mean that we can’t form our own through this process. I think I like writing things that break the fourth wall a bit. Especially reflecting on Observation 4 I genuinely love the way I wrote it, even though I can’t even remember how I wrote it. It just flowed naturally and it has now become something that I would love to translate into a film style, not even the content itself.