Here is the script written by myself and used during the video, I know there is a few typo here and there, I also changes the script on the fly a lot, so if something don’t match perfectly, that’s why.

Script:
At the very beginning of the course, I thought this is all about symbolism, using certain elements to deliver a suggestive message to the audience. Since I wasn’t able to attend the 1st week as I was in Japan with minimal resources to complete documents and so on, I wasn’t able to do the 1st assessment properly, things starts from the 2nd here.

In the 2nd assessment, I went to my partner’s familiar location, the Royal Botanist Garden, attempting to notice something everything 10 min during my stay. Although this is not the 1st time me paying the garden a visit, I still managed to find a few interesting bits surround the garden, such as the tram stop where all numbers leads to the same destination…to be honest I wasn’t impressed or I should say noticing things out of the blue.

1 week after my visit to the garden, we gathered ourselves in the class as we are supposed to as students. We had a look at all of the video that we’ve taken in our unfamiliar location, again I wasn’t exactly impressed, but of course I made myself look a bit more interested to keep an ever so slightly positive mood. From what my brain have gathered, all of her videos suggests a pattern, blindspot, areas outside of our/camera’s field of view, which apparently became her project. Meanwhile, I was thinking of structures and movement, without realising that I’m walking into a swamp full of mist.

In the 3rd assessment, I was very tunnel visioning in making time-lapse, a form of media that fits both themes, structure and time. As I was going all-in with time-lapse, I wasn’t trying new things, I wasn’t trying to make something that might look bizarre yet interesting looking media, I was just doing what everyone is doing on the internet these days. At the Pitch presentation, I made an inside joke by naming most of editing documents with “The Pitchfork” which I thought was obvious enough for everyone to figure out, turns out, it was quite the opposite.

After the Pitch presentation, I went back to the “drawing board”, re-thinking what and how would work for assessment 4. So what’s better than looking at some of the examples from the learning resources, then proceed to refurbish something from my past works, perhaps I can find something there.

And as it turns out, I did, looking at some of the photos that I’ve taken back when I was in year 12 doing Art class, I’ve paying attention to shadows itself and things that emerges with it.

I figured that James Benning’s work alines with mine the most, and so I proceed to do something similar, although the technical part is only as complex as complex as putting a camera on a tripod and leave it there for a longer than usual or necessary amount of time. In James Benning’s examples, he uses planes as a human elements that separates itself from the mostly nature imagery.

In my own work however, I used mainly pedestrians as the moving component to suggestive that this is indeed a moving sequence. I also used urban elements as the majority of the frame which is clearly the opposite to the example my trials are based on, the shadow projected by the trees to suggest how minimal natures are in the city yet it remains apparent, meanwhile have shadows that are clearly projected by man-made structure yet it remains difficult enough to tell what exactly it or could be.

That was a brief summary of what I personally did during the course, I’ll let the sequence play until the end of this probably not too meaningful video.

End of the Script

Here are the links to my pervious Blog posts, if you’d like to look into it in slightly more detail.
M4A2_Prompt
M4A2_Noticing
M4A2_Reflecting
M4A2_Refining
M4A3_Experiment_1
M4A3_Experiment_2
M4A3_Experiment_3
M4A3_Refining
M4A3_Pitch
M4A3_Pitch_Reflection