Thank you and that is so sweet of you gal~

Miss you~

Ethics are everywhere and are significant in both private lives and public engagement in our society where moral and confliction areas that exist beyond legal responsibilities.

As an example of a cultural conflict in the 1920s, Baldwin Spencer who made extensive audio field recordings of Aboriginal people reports both appreciation and fear resulting from his efforts. At least one Warrumungu elder claimed that Spencer’s camera extracted vital essence from his liver, threatening his life (Michaels, 1994, ‘A primer of restrictions on picture-taking in traditional areas of Aboriginal Australia’, Victoria). This present that one could fear of cameras and accusations of spirit theft. Or that there could be a certain sense to the proposition that using someone else’s life as a subject to be recorded, reproduced and distributed is a kind of appropriation. Such appropriation typically benefits the photographer more than the subject. Therefore it is important that every society regulates the recording and publication of images of its citizenry to protect certain human rights valued by that society not to be central and crucial for any human being.

For the ethical concerns of legal such as in the case of Concetta Petrillo, who was charged with indecently recording a child under the age of thirteen years. This moral censorship of art was a publicly debated issue in Perth, and this may have promoted the over-reaction to her photographs by the police and photographic laboratory that developed her films. After two years of court and accumulation of enormous legal bills for defending her innocence, Concetta Petrillo’s case closed and she was judged not guilty (Archer, 1998, ‘Crossing the fine line: the case of Concetta Petrillo’, Victoria). I agree with Allison that, “we are living in a climate of fear, where images are no longer being judged by their artistic merits, but rather on the desires that they may arouse”. I believe that in today’s society, the artists struggle with freedom of creating arts but fears of being judged concerning ethics like Concetta Petrillo’s case.

As for my understanding of ethics, I believe that it is a set of moral ethics which with respect to right or wrong in behaviour. Everyone has developed their own idea of what principles they should go by and what they think is right and wrong depending on their ethical and cultural up-bringing. In addition, ethics are been influenced by important people in one’s life, religion or certain crucial experiences. I think a common ethical issue is when a professional comes across a situation which might appear to be a conflict of interest. But, a more vexing ethical situation is one in which right or wrong are not clear or when doing the ‘wrong’ thing might be the ‘right’ thing to do. Moreover, it is important to be aware and to have a good choice of ethics, it is significant not only in making films or documentaries for example but in all aspects of life because it is an essential part of the foundation on which of a civilized society is build upon, as well as to reflect on the possible risks, outcomes and implications for humans, environment, political and cultural implications, and the future.

“Facade”

Created by Eun Mi Kim and Kodi Rikko Dennison
Originally Written on: 20 March 2005

Synopsis
‘Façade’ is an art house and thriller genre short film dealing with the subject of overcoming/conquering your fears in order to face and resolve a problem, in simpler terms, ‘facing your reality’

Through the main character Daisy’s tinted glasses, she perceives reality like an everlasting computer game where she can denied the realism. In her eyes, she views herself as a cartoon character, surrounding environment and its figures appear as a collection of charming and happy (weird) pixilated graphics. A realm she is more then content to dwell and she will fight for herself to be in. the computer game symbolize Daisy’s own dream world and Jen as her good side of herself who is strong enough to wake her up from the misery.

During a moment at home with Dez, her most cherished Sim (her name for the characters who populate her world) Daisy witnesses Dez’s partial conversion (a process where the pixels and Sims dissolve to reveal there real counterparts, threatening the foundations of her prefabricated reality). Regretfully she solves the problem in her usual computer game manner, but unbeknownst to her the solution is only temporary, as it signals the rebirth of an apparently solved problem from her past, Jen the Dream Destroyer.

As the night proceeds and Daisy begins her nightly chores (Job), she encounters a conversion with every place she visits, the Money-Bot (ATM), the Inn (Kebab Store), the Inn/Ext Train Station and the Church of Purification (Laundromat). Though with each conversion she solves in her usual computer game manner, she can never solve the problem that creates these conversions in the first place, Jen the Dream Destroyer.

As she returns home with her laundry, from what should have been a routine night, Jen appears to Daisy through a portal in her bedroom. Daisy confronts Jen with the intent to destroy and restore harmony back to her Simworld. But when Jen reveals the truth, Daisy refuses to believe that all her solutions to the conversion problem were in fact Daisy murdering innocent people.

Fuelled by guilt and rage, Daisy manages to grab a hold of Jen and forces her back into the portal from whence she came, though not before being struck down with Jens final blow, which consequently breaks a lens from Daisy’s ‘Simworld’ seeing shades. As she comes to, Daisy looks up at ‘Jens portal’ through her one of her broken glasses. With the lens that is intact she can see the portal and Jen lying in defeat, but through the frame where there is no lens, all she sees is a mirror reflection of her real self as a mid-forty woman.

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This is my individual project and I would be working on this til I finish my course. At the moment, Kodi and I are still working on the script…I will get back to our script process as soon as possible.

Happy Birthday, Sharon~
If you were here in Melbourne, we could have gone out to celebrate your birthday! But you are in UK and I am in here….well, we will meet oneday.
I made this little animation for you, hope you like it…

I hope you are having a great day and love you, girl!!!