1 Word 1000 Pictures
At the start of the project was decided on what I should do with my word “fill”. I could fill items, fill myself up with air, food, and drink, or be filled with emotion. The important aspect was how this would be laid out.
The short clip would be simple since I felt like I wouldn’t have the time to go out of my way to film content for this project due to my schedule. Hence, I took my morning routine and tried to find things that would make sense for my word. Since fill can be used as a verb or a noun, I made sure that they were both considered. After the first critique, I learned that I should use jump cuts and since I like to add a bit of humor to my work if there is a chance, I would need to consider what kind of angles this would be in and how I would film this composition.
I found the project actually quite fun because due to the restriction of no sound and it being in black and white, I had to consider pacing as the tool factor for impact. My hands were a bit shaky filming elements of my day, but in the end, I found that the quick-paced, not super stable video clips seemed to work for my composition.
Another thing that I had to reconsider was the clips that I used after one another. After the second class critique, the biggest concern was that I wasn’t truly applying to my word. The video looked more like a vlog and a step-by-step routine of what I did in the morning, which wasn’t quite the point. I ended up stripping little sections of the first video in order to make my word speak for itself.
By the second week, I had most of my clips filmed and I had used the song “Icecream” by Blackpink and Selena Gomez as a tool to pace myself, even if I didn’t use it for the final. Now with all of my elements together, my peers realized how quick the video was and the feeling of anxiety it gave them when clips would jump one after the other. It was important for there to be rest periods within the work so I added a moment of me waiting “for my bread to finishing toasting” for some humor but to give the audience a bit of break from the fast-paced morning that I have.
It took several redos to realize that if you accidentally drop an imported file in the timeline of your project that it can overlap and delete many hours of work………
I found this project to be excited and it has made me learn more about how much the pandemic has made me feel uncomfortable having large amounts of people around me at once. I found that I can express humor in my work that I can’t show to everyone and I would like to expand upon that process and continue making these kinds of jump-cut videos. In the future, I hope that I can use music as a tool that can help enhance my work instead of it being used as a pacing tool alone.
I was pretty happy with the response from the class. I went last so the process of elimination was pretty small, however, the hand help jump cuts seemed to work with the quickness of the composition, however, for two sections, I should reconsider the speed duration that I elongated since it didn’t work in sequence with the other fast-cut clips. Overall this project was fun and having many videos to work from make the process a lot easier. I found that a common theme that people experienced for the class was that 33.33 seconds was a lot to fill up. Personally, I felt like I needed more time because of the number of casual videos I took, but the time was a good restriction.
