The session of presentations was for me very important in shaping up my final idea for the media project before making it happen. Along with acknowledging the feedback from our guests, it was great to hear my peers discussing their choices of hyperobjects as well as their approaches to the media project which helped me to revise on my choices for my own project.

I was assigned to give feedback on Millie’s presentation, which to begin with is a very interesting one. She chose microbeads as the hyperobject to base her project around. I have no idea about microbeads before this presentation but Millie’s idea made me googled it after the session (not just because I was supposed to give feedback but it is a truly interesting hyperobject). I learnt that they are small plastic particles which are in many cosmetic products and are hard, even impossible to dissolve. My project and hers are to some extent similar that we have to address on plastic and to address the cons of plastic could be a main object. Millie said that she chose microbeads because she cares about these products and is an environmental enthusiast, hence it is interesting to see that the smallest things can sometimes have the greatest impact on our planet, and sometimes not in a good way. Microbeads would be used as her case study in exposing a bigger picture: how climate change affects our entangled ecologies.

With her project, Millie plans to produce a video of less than 5 minutes as this would be the most accessible and engaging idea to express information. I agree with this as I think my project is perhaps the only one that is not video-related. A video, with or without sounds, still has the ability to project its impact visually. This is what Millie would focus on as she chooses no music as a constraint in projecting her ideas. She said she would put an emphasis on sounds like ocean, which would help her to emphasise the idea of where do microbeads go. However, I would suggest (and perhaps would be the only advice I could give as her ideas are clearly well-planned) to also focus highly on the visual impacts with somehow the use of images to help with it. I feel that for this project, abstract on particles would be highly effective and could be a catalyst to address her points more effectively. Considering the fact that microbeads could have disastrous impact on sea life, the emphasis on visual could be an useful approach for her to add on the project. Other than that, I really like her ideas and I look forward to see her final project.