Drift Assessment 4

My favorite experience from the drift walks is most likely my walk during Drift 2. I had the most fun capturing imagery at different angles and be able to manipulate it in any I wanted to represent the object. Versus with sound, I felt that I couldn't find any interesting sounds and was forced to record whatever raw material I found within my surrounding range. With imagery, it was the opportunity to be creative. As you can tell, my final results from drift 2 is probably more interesting to view than drift 1. I feel it is because I enjoyed working with imagery and was therefore able to express that through my work. Also, I feel so limited with sound, but with imagery, you can do so much with it.

Drift Assessment 3

An unexpected situation I encountered during my first drift was the conflict of consistent sound recordings of nature. I felt that I was to experience how to capture sound but had ignored how to do it in a way that would work for me. What I mean to say is that, I didn't have an idea of what things I want to capture and work with in audacity. In doing so, my sound recordings were all over the place. It could be looked as a good or bad thing, depending on what type of person you are and how you work with things, but I'm more of a person that likes to plan things before they start. That is why I feel my work in drift 2 was more successful and satisfying to work with because I was able to plan what theme of imagery I wanted to capture versus sound recordings, you record whatever you find is out there at the moment.

A second unexpected situation I encountered was during my second drift. I didn't expect the weather to be so cold that it would prevent me from capturing imagery during my walk. However, I had to go out multiple times through the same route to make sure I captured what I wanted. Even so, the most surprising thing was that with all the imagery I captured, there were a lot of good shots that I was able to take and choose from to compose my silent film. I was very pleased with my overall imagery and so my hard work paid off in the end.

Another astonishment was the final recordings I had gathered from my first walk. It was too loud or too quiet. I didn't like what I was hearing. The cold weather prevented me from going out again on such a long walk. It was a situation where I was forced to work with whatever I had and go from there. I was extremely unsatisfied with the results but I hope to divert myself away from this problem again or else improve upon so that I won't result in any more suprise bad recordings.

Drift Assessment 2

During drift 1, there was a point in my walk that I felt unusually at ease in the midst of busy city life in downtown Milwaukee. It was when I entered a street that was less used and was quiet except for the sound of dripping water and a soothing song from a Chinese restaurant from across the street. It was an escape from the loud busy life of Milwaukee within Milwaukee. It was strange to take one step in a different direction and find peace in the same area that is usually just traffic noise day to day.
During drift 2, throughout my walk on my final (third) day to capture imagery, I felt it most peaceful of a walk compared to the previous days I went to capture imagery and sound. It was a quiet walk of exploration, and thus, allowed me to discover unique features that I was able to capture on camera.

Drift Assessment 1

Two situations that aggravated me during my first two drifts was the worry that I didn't have enough shots of specific objects, and two, the duration of the cold weather. Other than that, everything was fine. I was happy with my shots, but wasn't fully satisfied until I had more than enough shots of objects, buildings, etc. to choose from to make my silent film. The cold weather kept on preventing me from staying out too long to capture my imagery, and because I always had to go back inside every so often, I was always paranoid that I didn't have enough shots that I would be happy to work with. So therefore, my two main stress factors were there weather and just simply concern of my overall captured imagery.