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IVM Wow, time for the final WOW blog. It’s been a long year, but the number of experiences and memories to look back on are countless. My latest experience has been carrying out my SIP. I have been taking a film making workshop and it has given me insight about film and its industry. This new disciplinary learning has helped my practice be agile in adapting to new creative environments. Firstly, my individual practice became a group practice. I had used my illustrative practice in creating a well planned storyboard. Storyboard is vital, the quality of filmed outcome could depend on how closely planned the storyboard is. Copies of the storyboard are distributed to all members of the group, and everyone carries out their duties (camera, boom mike, producing, directing, etc…) according to the storyboard. It helps them check they are on track and prepare to work on upcoming scenes. Most of all, pointing out things around the storyboard clarifies communication of most everything between group members. The storyboard I drew in my illustrative style was shared among other members. They then took it to their homes and workplaces to study it and carry out their roles as planned. As our input comes together, our practices mix in too. We get familiar with each other’s practice as we share and look after each other’s doings - one’s practice became the other’s practice, everyone’s practice became everyone’s practice. Another adaptation is the form of the process and the outcome of my practice. With my usual practice of hand drawn illustration, I was worried how to adapt this into the process of creating film. The scale of my practice got bigger by engaging with many people, and it turned more three dimensional as our team and actors followed out my 2D drawings. In this process I learnt how to refine the visual narrative of my illustration to better communicate the messages and contexts I try to demonstrate. Much like the transition from my 2D drawings to capturing of 3D people, my practice has adapted stronger initiative and confidence in attitude and a more active practice. Like social shift and adaptation of individual practices, I see adaptation of film culture has been taking place too. Since the outbreak of COVID19, the global economy has been having hardships including the film industry. Cinemas and theatres have been having hard times with social distancing, people are keeping away from closed spaces to reduce the chances of spreading the virus. On the contrary, Netflix and such online entertainment platforms saw its advantage as it can be enjoyed indoors at anytime the user finds convenient. The debate on whether online movie platforms count as actual film/movie watching is never ending, as people debate on the original definition of cinema between the styles of Thomas Edison and Lumière brothers (the first being watching alone in a personal booth, the latter being watching together in a public space). Through this pandemic crisis, I think it is likely the film industry have been pushed to adapt to the lone entertainment culture. I see the adaptation of my practice also in my response to feedbacks. Before DPS year, I did not usually do group works that required much feedbacks from exterior parties, I could just interview and ask for feedbacks from close friends and usual people around me that I feel comfortable sharing my work with. However during my placements, I had no choice but to constantly share with the people I work with. Throughout the year, I met new network of creatives and individuals of non-creative disciplines to talk to. This means that I have gained new audience to share my work to and get a whole new perspectives of feedbacks from, which consequently develops how I respond to the various feedbacks. Feedbacks mostly included those that came from sharing my initiative ideas and practice. However, some feedbacks were not much related to my creative practice but more relevant to my individual approach to things in life. And those feedbacks too were just as resourceful and eye opening. I could compare the experiences I had at the hospital and live brief works. During the latter experience, I could only make virtual research to inform myself of the brief contexts and the scope of feedbacks I could get were narrow, they were solely based on the things demonstrated in my work outcome. In Kkottongnae, it definitely had more advantage to be able to physically place myself in the environment, I had staffs and volunteers and supervisors whom I got to know individually and build friendship with. But there was a pressure of initiating a new activity within this history-long environment. There was also pressure of how to approach my ideas with good communication, so that my idea does not startle the community. But with the networks of staffs and volunteers whose I can talk to about the situation of the community there, it allowed me to grow a better awareness of ethical design perspectives. Overall, this year has been truly eventful and unpredictable. I feel I had dashed into each placement quite unguarded, but thankfully as always, it all turned out fine. Regarding the pandemic, it has brought to us some good among the bad. For instance the nature, was able to recover during the time people were halted in their usual actions and kept things unharmed. An open letter has been recently shared online, initially said to have been written by Bill Gates. Though soon after it turned out it was in fact, not written by Gates, the letter still shares good evaluation of how COVID19 has impacted us and gave us important reminders : 1. We are all equal 2. We are all connected. I was reminded the preciousness of our everyday routine and the importance of new hope we wake up to each day. To find positive in all discouraging, difficult situations is another tactic of adapting to new creative environments, I would say.
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