– 1st reflection –

I am one of the students in Communication Media that likes filming things or record my surroundings with a camera, but I often find myself cannot represent the image in my imagination by my camera. As the result, I have chosen to participate in this studio, to turn an observation verbally to the filmed.

I was considering how Robin says ‘an observation expressed verbally is inadequate for our purposes’, in my perspective, to be able to represent what we have seen or imaged by words or verbally is not enough to let our audience feel/ understand what we really want to express. In nowadays, for sure it is easier to understand if something is representing visually instead of verbally.

What I hope to get from this course is that I will be have the ability to transfer an observation to the filmed, and successfully let my audience understand what I am aimed to repressed/expressed. As I am still a fresh hand in the industry, so I wish to learn lots of techniques in order to help me transform not only my observation but also all the good ideas i want to represent through my cameras.

Moreover, I think every students from non-english speaking background will meet the same challenge as me even I have been here for seven years. For multi-lingual students there are always language barrier for us, for example, if I would like to describe something amazing to a friend, i have to rummage for a suitable word to describe it. Another reason for me to choose this studio is, I believe that this might be the way for me to break the language barrier, not to show my audience with words and sentences, show them on the screen instead.