What made you stop to record the moments of noticing you did?

At first, the teacher asks us to think of a shooting topic, but I have no ideas. However suddenly, there is one case comes into my mind. I choose a lesson named Television Culture on Tuesday. At that class, the teacher asked us to think about one question: where was TV.I gave my answer like it was on the street’s screen. Then I decide: I could shoot the big screen. The screen shows various company’s products or ads per day. Most people including myself may not notice if the ads showed on screen are same every day, even though we have a glance at it when we are walking on the street but we forget it quickly. I’m sure fewer people will shoot the big screen at the same time. Thus I make a choice to shoot the screen at the same time and the same place that becomes my shooting topic.

How did the way you collect relate to your initial research prompt? & What did you discover/learn about making media through noticing? 
The initial research prompt is to see how the advertising uses the notice of people to enhance their popularity and expand their brand images. So we have noticed the five videos on the screen at the same time every day for a week.
The videos on the screen played every day are something people watched occasionally, but not intentionally. No one would put the things that we saw from the videos into the conversation unless there was some connection between the already happened conversations with the video contents. Then suddenly, the video contents would appear in our mind and we would notice what we saw.
We did see what the videos were playing, but until there was a link or connection point showed up, this memory of watching buried in our sub-consciousness. After repeating it in our mind, we suddenly realized that there were birds and there was merry-go-round, there were sports, and there were live programs. The video on the big screen in the street is a way for advertising, and it is a social media platform to put the seeds and impression of the products and news in people’s minds. So when people want to buy some products or to do something, their instinct would be affected by the pictures they have seen before. This kind of notice is unconscious but it also has its functions.

What question(s) arise for you out of this making?

The important problem in the process of shooting is patience. As a lazy person, it is hard for me to go Federation square for the purpose of shooting at a fixed time every afternoon.  One thing that I can’t predict is the weather condition which means the screen will show nothing if the weather is bad. Another problem is the device. The big screen picture shot by mobile phones are low-quality images that we can find clear ripple on it. (An effect that I do not know how to explain).

The place where I took this time was Federation square. I chose to shoot the same thing at the same time and same place – the big screen, and at the end to see whether this stuff are same on the big screen at five o’clock per day. At first, I wanted to present those things by using the camera but then I found the playable things on the screen can not have a perfect express with the camera.So finally I chose the video. Before shooting, I thought that same thing would be played during the same period per day. And after the shooting completion of the first day, I still not change my mind, because the showing stuff in the first day happens to the advertising photo of the Federation square. So I considered: Oh, the things that will be showed at the five o’clock per day is some tourism advertising about this place. Until the shooting completion of the second day, I changed my ideas. Because the second day’s shooting is an entirely different thing that becomes sort of short film with documentary form, which gives me a shock. And the third day varies from the second. It becomes a game. I did not know what it is playing on the fourth day, which looks like a slow motion film. The fifth day is a game, a live broadcast game. I noticed this game recently, so I know what it is – the world swimming championship of this year. It surprises me a lot for I am a big fan of sports events. Now the athlete on the screen is Hosszu.

If we have to find any similarities in these films, that is: they are the same thing that shot by the same device with the same location at the same time. (Although the big screen picture which shot by mobile phones at low-quality images and I were late for 8 minutes for the second-day shooting.)These are small mistakes of the five- day shooting process. Those things are noticed by group members after they have seen my shot works which I miss out. For example, the public, the carousel and technology in the playground.

I used to live that way, focusing on my own staff and caring less about my surroundings. I seldom make many thoughts of the other aspects of my life although this world is beautiful and there are so much amazing things waiting for people to discover.and I probably would stay that way if I did not read the article in this week and make reflections on my own.

The author taught me how to feel. His words weaved into a beautiful language and it encouraged me to see me, things around me and to see the connection between me and others (including people and objects). The author taught me about the method of noticing and how to make observations.

The key point of our group is the “Essence of Noticing” from page 31 to 33. After reading the article, I am interested in the responses children and adults would give toward different kinds of gestures, postures and speeches. And I have discovered that sometimes, the gestures and postures could carry the contradict meaning of the contents and thus the message would not be the same. According to my understanding, this might be because the adults are having too many thoughts and so their body language does not fit the constantly changing minds; as for the children, since they have comparatively weaker ability of expression, they will focus more on their body languages.

Based on my noticing, I also notice my own comprehension and thinking of the question that if my noticing has been influenced by my own experiences and then find out that everyone has their own understanding toward things depending on their personal life experiences. Nevertheless, people become wiser and more knowledgeable through observation and reflection.