Some potential ideas my group and I discussed were different concepts to explore filming which align with our question of how a poetic video conveys a story but remains experimental at the same time. We started off with listing out broad topics such as home, love, comfort zones that had the potential to form a list that could be exploded starting with our own interpretations and perspectives of it. This approach was quite similar to how I started out making my earlier poetic video works where the visuals and sounds revolved around. 

However, a process based method in working on this video project Hannah talked about was something I found quite interesting and want to attempt is starting out with an emotion and having each group member gather some videos of how they interpret it. Then from that gathering list exercise of each person, the list will then explode and will potentially develop its own aesthetic and show us if a narrative has been created from it or not. 

Another concept in class discussed was the idea of thinking about balance and aspects of order and chaos in our poetic video. I see this as an important technique to help convey a narrative and give our video some sort of structure which can assist in generating meaning to the video. Structural elements being as the “order” whilst being combined with more  experimental shots accompanied with poetic techniques acting as the “chaos” hopefully the audience can take note of a narrative being formed whilst also in contemplation and questioning how each shot makes sense of one another. 

Also considering balance combined with our gathering and explosive list generated from our group allows “room for critical engagement and an experiential knowing.” (Frankham B, 2013, pg147) may also allow more than one narrative to be formed and discovered from the audience which may alter from our original idea of the story created.

Reference: References : Frankham, B.L., 2013. Complexity, flux and webs of connection,’ in: (Links to an external site.) A Poetic Approach to Documentary: Discomfort of Form, Rhetorical Strategies and Aesthetic Experience University of Technology Sydney, Sydney. pp. 137-176