Absolute
Nothing
is unchanging, eternal or timeless. Therefore, there is no absolute “eternal
truth”.
No
absolute politics, life, ethics, morality, truth, goodness, badness—not even an
absolute self. All is in flux and all is change.
Therefore
there is no single absolute perspective. Only multiple
perspectives, which—like everything else—change over time.
For my
topic of interest I want to give it a new life. I don’t want to write about
static objects, I want to make it interesting for the readers but not just for
them, but for me too. Because I am writing from just one perspective and I delivering
an argument, which is a cause for thought. And because I am researching and
referencing this argument it makes my case convincing and relevant for the
essay.
Next, we
had to watch a film. We watched the film a few times and then we had to say
what was wrong with the video. I was slightly confused at the time as I didn’t think
that there was anything wrong with the video. So after this he told us. What I then
thought about was that you can’t see what is actually happening. I looks like
that there is a man trying to fight another guy. But, if you change the camera
angle, you cans see that he is actually saving the man. So the idea of this was
to show you that there is a lot more to think about when you see something from
one angle. Look at the whole image and behind the image not just what you see.
Next we
was split into 4 different groups and we had to write about a different scene
of the film. I had to write about the first 30 seconds. From this I wrote:
A man
sipping coffee, he seems upset, why? They seem to be arguing. They dislike each
other. The guy standing up is shouting at the other guy.
Again from this task we were
just told to write what we see. But, what I wrote was different to what was
actually happening. So again it’s all about perspectives. Not just the image
you see. Think beyond the image and look for other features.
Banana Box Task
The next writing task was with
a box and a banana skin. There were two students looking into the box and then
around the room the other students could see a different side of the box. I had
one of the sides of the box. I had to write down what I saw. So I wrote: An
empty banana skin stuck to the side of the box, but where is the banana? The
other students had a picture of a gut vertical and a gut horizontal. But what
did this mean? It could mean anything. It’s just about the perspective and what
else is happening.
Perspective of a Moving Image
and a Still Image
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Emotion
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Text
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Size
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Texture
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Shadow
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Function
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Lighting
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Peoples opinion
This seminar has helped me a
lot. I have given me a good understand about writing about an object/film/
image. I now know not to just write about what I can see, but write about what
is behind the image or film. So going forward with this, when I come do doing
my research I won’t just look for the ideas that I see but I will look beyond
this and this should help me with my research.