Reflection for task two_

There were a lot of sounds that weren’t repeated for the next time, and I will say there were around 1/3 of the sources of sound I couldn’t find them when I started to photograph. What I was expecting Fawkner park’s environment to be way easier than Glenferrie road, and in fact, even the environment was more straightforward than Glenferrie road it has still become a challenge for me.  The sources of a sound weren’t being repeated for several of times like Glenferrie road. For example, James heard rustling sound of a shopping bag in the recording we thought might be easier to find people with shopping bags around Coles, but in fact, people who held shopping bags were everywhere on the street. In my case photographing in Fawkner park, I heard an animal’s sound in the recording, but when I stopped my recording at went to capture it, I held my camera 10 minutes just looking for a bird that flies over the sky but it didn’t show up. When I was holding my camera and wandered around which brought me to discover the leaves have turned into white from the reflecting of lights, so I held my camera up again I photographed it, more surprisingly, when I looked back to these photos of trees I have accidentally captured a flying bird!

What I really liked about this task and especially our prompt was to play the audio back after recording, and then take photos of what you can hear from the recording.  This is a good practice for us as media makers to get our eyes used to notice the small things. As I have discovered from our task one,  the fact that there are so many little things in our daily life that we might have missed out because of we have paid too much attention only to the big stuff.

Using this graph from week one reading as an example, people usually keep walking in the main road and focusing on the package which is very big that has no room for anything else to go on the road and neither from the small pathway, I will describe sound as something powerful that can go through the big block and let people see more things. For example, we went to my place for photography and recording because I told James that my memory in Glenferrie road was when I passed the road every day to school, so our focal point was put on how loud we can hear from the students and we both expected to hear non-stopped talking of students walking down to the station. However, from the recording, we were very surprised by the constant traffic sound was actually stronger than the girls that we were nearer.

Something challenged about this task was what I have mentioned in the first post, capturing movements (like running, jumping or animals) were still challenging for me. And secondly, shooting movements at night was even more challenging this time because the lighting was not bright enough for me to see all the details. Such as, a flying bird passed the trees that were impossible to see from the dark. Moreover, the just like I said further on the speed of sound was not able to be caught because it finished at the same time it started, but I guess having these challenges was sort of the point what Hannah was expecting us to experience from practicing. Those I have missed out were very interesting because they have shown how sound allows more unlimited imagination, and how powerful when sound and view can be when they came together.