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Personal Planning, Reflection and Development
Evaluation of Second Year
I have enjoyed my second year on this course a lot more than the first I’d say, I feel this is because it becomes a lot more focused upon the areas that you become interested within. This allowed me to focus upon my filming which I have particularly enjoyed this year, it has inspired me to sort out my camera charger and start to produce my own skateboard DVD with some good mates, this shall be coming out online in November as part of a side project that I have going.
The first project of the second year we did was Future Cinema, I found this quite interesting and we looked at some cool concepts that sparked some ideas.
We ended up putting on a DJ and visual projections within my local indoor skate park, this was definitely a lot of fun but didn’t turn out as well as we’d first foreseen.
Unfortunately we were a little disappointed with our work and didn’t account for poor lighting conditions, which definitely harmed us. I’d love to try this kind of thing again as I think that project into an environment makes people react to the situation as they’d never normally experience this kind of thing within a skate park. I’m proud of the fact we were creating an immersive experience for everyone that attended though.
Everybody loved Lewis, the DJ, he definitely helped us create the atmosphere through music and with him being an ex-skateboarder he enjoyed being there and getting involved. I’m planning to do a little more work with him involving his hip-hop DJ-ing and turntablist skills. He is a very handy contact for me to have.
Performance Video.
This unit was all about music/performing music. This was tricky for us as Jack was the only one of us with any musical talent.
I’m quite happy with what we achieved but given that we all managed to read the brief incorrectly and interpreted it the wrong way, I feel we did reasonably well. I wish we’d understood fully at the start of the brief so we could’ve created a musical masterpiece, which would’ve allowed us to fully experiment with a lot more musical techniques. This was definitely a fun project; it’s definitely up there with any of the skateboarding that I’ve filmed anyway! I especially had fun playing with garage band and being able to use it as a midi controller definitely made this project a lot more interesting. This is because I have the most minimal musical talent. This allowed me to feel as though I was contributing something to the group because Jack can play drums and Olly plays a little guitar. I liked the fact that I could switch to any instrument within garage band so this allowed us to use a lot of different noises within our final piece. The video does need a little sound mastering so all the levels are correct but I feel that it still sounds ok, not amazing all the same.
I really enjoyed the Wiitar concept, it’s really clever and I’ve shown many people about it after the project and it has amazed them. I think that is an achievement itself as I’m passing on a fun aspect that we had whilst we played our ‘music’.
Our video was wicked; I really enjoyed the end result. But there is only two faults I can pick out of it, the first I already mentioned which was the mastering of the levels which we didn’t take much into consideration at all. This would’ve helped anyone that watches it to determine it isn’t just noise and that there were individual sounds.
The second problem was that our genre was experimental and we based it around the terror of war, if you look at the video we all look far too happy to be portraying such a horrible time. I’d like to reshoot that scene and make us look rugged and try getting some emotion out of us. I feel that this would’ve helped us create what we were looking to perceive.
Professional Project
Coyote Was Going There.
Matt White.
For me this was one of the easiest things I’ve had to edit during this professional project as I was lucky enough to just be given the clips. Matt is a good friend and I’ve filmed/edited for him before so I know his style of riding and how he’d like his riding to be portrayed. The hard part was creating a video that had a decent flow and kept the viewer interested and I spent several hours re-editing the video just to get that perfect build up to the last trick.
All of the sponsors were very happy with Matt’s riding and I’m happy that I was a part of his biggest and best video so far. This is the kind of exposure that I need to getting as a videographer.
Ships of Fools.
TLD band video.
TLD live shows.
Course Evaluation
What have I achieved, enjoyed, hated, could be improved etc.
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