Are we selective in our observation?

Are we trained to observe differently? How?

Does our upbringing and cultures affect how we observe?

Ignoring certain observation does not mean that it doesn’t exist.

There are different approach to this assignment and after watching 10 other videos, I find that adaptability is one of the qualities that matters. Can our audience relate to the video or the message behind the video?

If we listen to the script and watch the visuals separately, it contains its own message. The skill here is the ability to blend different forms of media into one video. the visuals, audio, script and editing.

It is like making a good cup of coffee, the ability to  pull a good espresso shot, not too coarse and not too fine and frothing milk at the right temperature( between 50-70 degrees). Pour the milk into the shots so that our customer can enjoy a good cup of coffee.

After watching my own work a couple times, it could be done a lot better.

I spent most of my time finding the right footage to fit my voice over but I should have spent the same amount of  time editing and figuring out the pace of the video. After watching Cameron’s work, I realised I could have explored more in editing and Nora’s work, I could have explored more in scripting- the perspective of the object.

Now I understand why we were instructed to spend 25 mins for each section to draft our script in the first place. we should also spend more time crafting and exploring how we should work on different forms of media.

Every process is equally important. I harvested some good coffee beans but I’ve spent lesser time crafting on my skills on the coffee machine.

A friend sent me a  personality test link on Facebook, spent a good 10 mins answering the list of questions and I got my personality test results- according to the test, my personality type is a defender with a whole list of individual traits. true to a certain extend, period. nothing changed or nothing will change because of this test.

Another friend said she went to the psychic recently and she told us how accurate her prediction from the psy was. I don’t believe in such things , or maybe because I haven’t been to one yet. I find that most predictions are general and whenever the psy predict something, we tend to find the closest relation to the prediction.

Do we define ourselves or do we allow others to define us?

I find this article ( How to stop “flipping “) useful and could relate well to the term flipping.

In my opinion and observation with advanced technology, our brain and attention spent is trained to work in a fast paced environment where we could get anything and everything instantly. When was the last time we spent the whole afternoon reading a good book? Or When was the last time we had an actual face to face conversation with a friend/family member and not through text?

I’ve learnt a new term – sclerotic management: becoming rigid and unresponsive, losing the ability to adapt.

Problems with advance technology – with short attention spent, we lose the ability to adapt and we tend to follow rules/system, becoming rigid. which links back to Tuesday’s discussion about Technological determinism( please correct me if the term is wrong) how much control do we have in the chain of agencies in our lives?

Last thoughts- I’ve been watching Black Mirror on Netflix and it scares me how technology takes over the future of humanity.

We did a little sketch exercise in class today

Through this simple exercise, I actually questioned my existence! We learned about connections and how dense things can be. (Agency =the capacity to do things) How much control do I actually have of my life? Not much! Humans are always known as the most powerful spices in the world, we have this ability to communicate, create and resolve but at the same time, as an individual, we do not have much control over our lives. We are just following a system.

Technological determinism is a reductionist doctrine that a society’s technology determines its cultural values, social structure, or history- Technology that determines action.

We also watched some clips of the kuleshov effect  – images that connects meaning. bits and pieces of non-continual images that allows out brain to connect and link them together to form a conclusion/statement.