Task Four Reflection:

In task three, I picked up some photography and film one video on the night to explore the how the light changed on the night. So for the next division, I am going to film the time-lapse video to obviously show the light effects. But after the presentation, I got feedbacks from three teachers. They told me the time-lapse would show off more about the movement, it will be departing the topic that I explored at first. To be honest, I didn’t have ant idea for my final project when I got these responses because I have already make a whole plan for it. I was confused one week until I replay the record. I noticed one of the teachers said one word-movement. That is inspired me to rethink the final project and an idea comes up to my mind. That is how the light movement influence on the photography. But there is a point should be clear that how to ultimate present the light movement so that the audience could obviously notice the point through the photography. Different people have different perspective to observe this world, so the picture as well. When I picked up the first picture and share it with my friends. I got the feedback that is object movement and the light. That didn’t meet my expectation, I want to put these two elements together. So I take the photo again, this time I used long exposure (20s) of each photo. Then I got the last work which is a combination with light and movement.

We can obviously see the traces of light from the photos. The advantage of long exposure is to completely overlook the objects and ultimately capture the light of night so that people could draw attention to one point. I picked up two different types photos, one is original, another is long exposure. So these photos could make contrast to show what is the appeared and disappeared. That will let the people engage in it and to notice details that never noticed before.

The final project has concentrate on noticing because the three locations that I chose to picked up are places that we have passed by everyday. We might have seen it, but we didn’t use it to for a media production. I use the technical to take these photos, make the audience directly see the light movement. In addition, the light movement could bring a kind of mystery to photo. From another point of view, this also meet the subject of the course – seeing the unseen.

Studio Reflection:

Looking back to the start of the semester, we go through different tasks and every task related to each other. Initially, we began to observe everything in life, notice the change things around, and think of what we will gain. After further study and exploration, I slowly found the value of attention. If you live in a bland world every day, then life will be meaningless. The value of attention lies in the discovery of subtle things, the use of elements which associate the relevant things and then combined into a whole, or find the potential implication. Thus making the world rich and colorful. At the same time, this also applies to our study and work, only to every nuance of the work is done in order to create a perfect work. For media workers, all the world’s information needs attention and to explore the deep meaning. We can’t wait until something happens, we should notice some changes in advance. That is a sensitive to hot issues and everything around us.
Actually, different people notice different things because we grow up in the different family, different background and educational environment. When we think of what we interest is, we can’t find it quickly, but just focus on different part of things, we may notice our most interesting things like color, texture and pattern.

Through these tasks I did in this semester, I grasped the noticing as the experimental approach. To be honest, I didn’t find any differences in my daily life. However, when I step by step to complete each project, I realized that the energy was great. One step related to next step, noticing could help me to find new questions. It let me reconsider the project in a new perspective. This project I did would remind people to notice more things around us, even it is a normal thing, but if you stand in a different angle to view it, you may find new things.