Video:
URL: https://youtu.be/xzaCxJHoYuc
Reflection:
Throughout this week’s tutorial and weekly readings, I found that environmental degradation can also be defined as instability, mainly due to the increasing destruction of global ecology. In ordinary life, the ‘Precarious’ is unpredictable, as the reading mentioned:” Precarity is to register the singularity of emergent phenomena: their multiplicity, their motion, their imperfections, their internality, their disproportion, the way they accrue, accrue and wear out” (Stewart, p. 518). This week, we need to take into account the idea of an unstable environment, thinking that unpredictable and urgent movements of things through the landscape changing or collapsing. I’ve learnt that the world is ecologically unstable, resulting in unpredictable and worsening environmental changes which are beyond human control. I realize that every objective has its own precarity way.
According to this week’s sketch, in the beginning, I choose ‘weather’ as my main precarious thing. I think every day’s weather is a good idea which is one of the interesting unpredictable things throughout our daily lives, such as cloudy, rainy, sunny etc. However, when I show that in the consultant, I found that I should choose the same landscape as the same as before, I forgot it when I did that, so I changed my mind about the grass and the flowers. I observe the effect of the sunlight and the wind blows, they are so much different under the different conditions, such as it swings when the wind blows also the shadow cast by the sun. In addition to that, In this video, I use zoom in and zoom out to show it swings more precariously. Furthermore, I think my video can be a way to show this week’s concept as precarity is unpredictable in ordinary life.
In the future assignment, I think I can try to use different edit methods also take more shots that I can, then combine them to make the final video smoother, also in the future days, I will try to find more about the unpredictable and worsening environmental changes which are beyond human control.
References:
Stewart, K. (2012), PRECARITY’S FORMS. Cultural Anthropology, 27: 518-525