I had a really fun time making this first project, only it's pretty awkward editing footage of myself . . . I definitely feel like I could do a better job with it, the lighting was really difficult for me since I don't have much experience working with this and my video camera doesn't take low light well at all. I had it all pretty well planned out in my head, but when I was trying to edit it all together, it was harder for me to fit it all like how I'd pictured it. I hope that it'll make sense to everyone what I was intending to do. My idea was to show that I really have no sense of place, because I'm always in the midst of moving or changing. I feel almost like I'm pretending to be an adult, playing the role of teacher/ tutor, while at the same time still being a child. Basically I"m still stuck in adolescence while needing to pay bills and be on my own. I guess I was trying to show a sort of duality where I"m forced to act as an adult, move on, but I can't. I'm also stuck between two worlds, east and west, both from each coast in America and because of my mixed nationality. I just don't belong in any one place.
Wiki says that "The term sense of place has been defined and used in many different ways by many different people. To some, it is a characteristic that some geographic places have and some do not, while to others it is a feeling or perception held by people (not by the place itself). It is often used in relation to those characteristics that make a place special or unique, as well as to those that foster a sense of authentic human attachment and belonging." It seems that most people feel it has to do with a geographic location, but mostly what makes up who who are. Anything that makes us feel like we belong is our "place" but if we don't really know who we are or what makes us feel like we belong, then there is no real sense of place.
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