College Work

FEEDBACK FROM DARWIN COLLEGE.

The feedback I got from Darwin College for my video was mostly positive, which surprised me quite a bit because due to teacher’s comments, I thought that maybe there was less of a posibility for it to be shown.

However, Darwin College picked my piece, which I am really pleased about.

The comment that they attached with my ‘YES’ was: It is a visually arresting piece.

Feedback Tally.

The one-word feedback I got includes:

• PACE
• ATSMOPHERE
• DIFFERENT(X2)
• SILENCE(X2)
• CONCEPT(X6)
• YELLOW
• EFFECTS
• DUST
• SLOWMOTION(X2)
• IDEA

The negative feedback I got includes:

• FLASH
• FACES
• SILENCE(X6)
• RISK NOT CLEAR
• REVERSE

If I had the weekend…

If I was able to complete my video over the weekend I would;

-SHOOT MORE FOOTAGE- a female model would’ve been great, but then again I would’ve had to make my footage shorter to fit the timing correctly.

-EDITING- I would’ve taken the oppurtunity to re-do my editing, like Nick and Steve would’ve preferred, but also kept my own to see which works better.

-LOADING- The reason my video isn’t loaded on to vimeo is because it’s such full quality it would either take too long or just came out as coloured snow.For this, I would’ve taken the time to change all the settings, although I did this anyway and it still wouldn’t work. I also wanted to load it on to my memory stick, but because the file is so big it wouldn’t take it dispite me deleting everything else off of it.

-SOUNDTRACK- I would’ve had the time to find and load a suitable backing soundtrack, even though I tried this on friday, Steve and I were unable to download the sound I wished to have, due to Firefox not working. However, this wouldn’t be too necessary for the shop window production, but more so for Darwin College.

11/12 (DEADLINE!)

In today’s last sessions on this project, I have been continuing to edit my sequence.

Of course Nick and Steve had different ideas about it(Fades), although Steve sat down with me and went through what exactly he wanted to do, fade the two faces into eachother, however this effect didn’t work as well as he expected so I have just left it how it is.

I’ve been able to change the colour used by using the effect Colour Corrector.

For this, you are provided with two circles, one containing balance and the other hue.

Using Colour Correction.

Unfortunately, it kept messing up for me and deciding not to change what was on the clip I selected or just making all of them the same.

Eventually it sorted itself out so I was able to continue correcting.

Steve suggested to add a background ‘noise’ to the piece. For this, I went over to Garageband and tried to find something suitable for the video.

The ones I thought may have worked were too short for my footage, so the sound got too repetitive so I decided against it and think it works okay with no sound.

Altogether I think my video may as well be complete, I am pleased with what I have done throughout this project and how I’ve been time consuming.

Rough Cut Feedback.

So far all the feedback for my rough cut has been positive.

I asked a few of the other students in my class, family, friends and also the two models I used in my video.

They all said that the footage works well and the effects are great.

My mother suggested that I add Beethoven’s 1812 Overture, this however, was my first initial idea once I had thought up my video plan, I thought though, that perhaps it is copy righted so I will not be able to use it.

10/12

In today’s first lesson, I have continued editing my footage.

Nick yesterday mentioned that I should make it snappy and just have sharp cuts from one model to the other, Christina and Elliott agreed with this so I continued editing this way, however when I showed my footage(Rough Cut) back to Steve, he said to edit it in a completely different way- as a continuous loop. For this, he said that it should just be one, all the way through, then the next, but in a loop, so they would dissolve in to each other, then continue on.

I’m not too sure about this idea though, since the project’s deadline is tomorrow, I may just continue with the way I have done it so far.

Nick’s feedback for my rough cut is that instead of such snappy cuts, it should be a fade, I tried this out and disagreed with this, I don’t think it works as well with the effects used, and I’m not too fond of fading.

Later on I plan to make the colours a lot more vibrant and florescent.