On Wednesday, I answered your questions from week five with this lecture.
Then, I went through some of the specifics of task three. Some things to note…
- You need to do three iterative cycles of prompt > making > reflecting
- These cycles need to be documented on your blog and become the portfolio of posts for task three
- In these posts you should be making connections between your own making and the course’s content (readings, discussion, lectures)
- A good structure for your week eight pitch is then, now, next:
- then – what I did in my experiments
- now – what I have learnt about noticing through these experiments
- next – how I am going to develop these experiments into a large-scale project about noticing
- Week seven’s Thursday class will be for individual group consultations. You’ll need to book into a time here.
On Thursday, I talked to you all individually about the development of your recipes. The main thing now is to do your experiments giving yourself enough time to reflect and move iteratively towards ideas for your final project.
We then discussed MacDonald’s Avant-doc reading. We discussed how there is very little difference between what is documentary and what is avant-garde and that this distinction mainly happens in the edit. For instance, H20 becomes a more contemplative exploration of the patterns water makes as opposed to a documentary that might make water its subject matter.
Finally, we did this study of movement exercised based off Ivens’s The Camera and I reading, where he obsessively captures the movements of things.