A prompt writing for week three:
- What qualities did you notice that matters?
Interesting and open question. I suppose everyone’s got a different criteria for what matters to them. First thing that I noticed was uniqueness(as we watched everyone’s video). This is why your work’s going to be remembered. (Or the work that you helped to put together in ontology terms.) It would take a process for us: from using the camera to express your ideas to skilfully handling the camera, working with it and let it leads you. I got this from Adrian when he tells examples on how instruments talks to musicians and such. Second, critical eyes(as we filling in the comment sheets). As a creator, I am bad critic. There’s only so little time for you to be a few, not everything. However, it’s always good to be able to distinguish the bads and the goods. I can learn from those. And it also requires a systematic understanding of a medium or subject, if I wish to be very good at that. Third, explicit knowledge. Adrian has pointed many times during classes that tacit knowledge really matters when explicit knowledge is available everywhere now on the internet. The former requires more of doing, experiencing, while the latter needs just memorizing and time. Despite of this, I find necessary explicit knowledge important when you need it right on the spot. It’s only the knowledge that you are really familiar with gets practical use.
- What feedback would you give your own work?
I was thinking to write a blog post on that specifically, but since the question is here in the prompt, then: If an “excellent” is “the best”, I would give myself a “good”. (Yet to criticize a work of art in general, it’s hard to appeal to everyone. Everyone’s got a standard. ) I don’t like my audio voice track except for the tone. It’s got a weird electrical sound after the denoise process if you listen carefully; and my accent changed, especially recognizable for the last section of the video(I recorded twice at different times.). I am not quite sure if it was me reading the script just naturally gives people a sense of sorrow. Adrian said: “melancholy”; and some said “emotional”. I wasn’t intending to do that. Maybe I just do that and I don’t even notice. I like the split screens and the footages I found. Although, I do not fancy how the style wasn’t consistent. The second and third part are a bit too ambiguous for others to grasp. I loved my script but I think it could’ve been better. After readings peer comments, I find it was absolutely engaging, yet there’s more possibilities to it.
