Since our group discussed how our videos will contain aspects of categorical listing, an  idea I found from Bogost Ian’s reading  Alien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be aThing  is where he analyses a list of likes and dislikes made by Roland Barthes is that a list can “draw our attention to the curious world outside his person, as filtered through the arbitrary meter of likes and dislikes.” (Bogost Ian, 2012, pg41). With this idea in mind, having videos which stem from our perspective of how we see affection in our lives creates a mosaic from personal lists which can then be categorised into the expanding idea of affection. Our videos being variations created from our interpretation of affection can leave contemplation between each video to act in “drawing  attention  to  the  couplings of and chasms between them” (Bogost Ian, 2012, pg50) This quote can be helpful in thinking about our final project to have videos which can evolve into maybe multiple narratives through the audience engagement of what they notice throughout their viewing experience.  

A creative work that I found which can assist making our videos is Audrey Lam’s short film Is Anybody Coming Over For Dinner. This video is made up of mosaics which expand into displaying affection in a family orientated environment. A lot of these shots use close ups on actions (e.g feet kicking the soccer ball or hands playing with a toy, cutting food) where in some aspects it crops the entire full body action but it is  just enough to create viewer contemplation and for the audience to figure out what is going on. This places emphasis on details in how people especially in families show affection for each other. Also with close ups in the film, tight compositions display the family members to be close together and that affection can be shown in a physical manner. A technical aspect that can help assist close up composition is using a 4:3 aspect ration like in the video. This can also give off a a home video aesthetic in conjunction with  ideo grain, light leaks, film burn etc which can elicit a comforting feeling as if you are in that environment with friends or family who you do exchange affection with.

Reference : Bogost, I., 2012. ‘Ontography’ in Alien Phenomenology. Or What It’s Like to be a Thing.’ University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis. pp. 35-59