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The two of my action words were “knot” and “tighten”. The first word, “knot” means tie something together tightly, it can also mean something difficult. But the word “tighten” means make something more tightly. The sounds similar but there are actually a bit different, “knot” can be a noun and a verb, but “tighten” can only be a verb. These two words limit my picture need to be something tight or something we might find difficult to solve. But they also give me an opportunity by letting me use object from different shapes or even some event which don’t even have a shape.

The item I use almost a day-to-day basis that I don’t give much thought to is my calculator. It helps me a lot for doing my mathematics and solving problems. I choose this object because I bring it with me every day even I was in holiday. I pick it also because it is closely related to the two action words “knot” and “tighten”. When we saw some difficult mathematic problems, we might find it difficult and struggle with them. At this situation, a calculator could help us a lot by solving the problem with entering the complicate equation in it. Then we just simply press a single button and the result will show. It clears a lot of difficulty for us, release us form the tightness and knot of the problem.

In the video, the calculator was trying to solve some very different equations but an error had happened, which reflects while people were trying to handle a lot of things together their brain will be knotted. No matter machine or human, either one should do a large amount of works which they couldn't handle. I take pictures of the whole process and put them into a video. Then I use Photoshop to add some special effect of the error image. For example surround the calculator by different equations and made the calculator looks like being tighten by the equation. I also blur the surrounding area to highlight the error part of the image and made viewer more concern on it. For the last part in the video, I rub a piece of paper and take a picture of it. For this picture, I was trying to show the struggle I had with the problem and I gave it up by rubbing the homework into a ball. By putting these pictures together and connect them in series, it’s just like solving a complicate problem, I had to think how I should order them so that I could get a better effect I want. This process was similar as doing math homework, both of them knot my brain up and tighten my mind. But after I had done with this video, just like after doing the math problem, I feel I was free again from the knot of the problem. My brain wasn’t tightening by anything anymore. Besides, I feel success also because I had pass through such a long process and it finally comes to an end and I could see the final product I had done. This feeling is wonderful, you will feel your hard work had been proved by the final product. I like this video very much and I think it had done a great job on representing how people feel when their brain is tighten and knotted while they were facing problems, also how people feel after they get rid of the problem and being set free from them.