Above is the Montage which I had created for ‘A Montage of Beautiful Things’.
Overall I think that my montage has been quite successful, my posts are relevant to the words and I feel that I captured some good shots. One thing that I might have changed and probably still will is the colour correction on some of the shots, I feel that if I did this it would make it even more beautiful. Some of my shots may seem irrelevant to the words but I am able to back each of them up. I feel that I chose a good song for my video and it is my friend’s band so it is not copyrighted. I wanted my footage to fit with the uplifting beat with the music and song creating a ‘beautiful’ effect. I feel that my montage may be seen as too long but it was hard to cut down and get rid of shots because I wanted to use a lot of them. My favourite shots of my whole montage are the shots of people I took for my City project. Every person is different and I wanted to show that everyone is beautiful in their own unique way, however cheesy this sounds.
I will now give an overview of each of my videos.
Wall
When I first created this video I refused to upload it due to the fact that I really didn’t like it. Some of the drawings are not very good and I would like to remake the video and draw them at a better quality. I also had feedback from my group stating that I should use a better tripod, which I agree as this is really important when creating stop motion as the tripod I used wasn’t very good. Due to the fact that ‘wall’ was the first word I really wanted to make a good video, however I feel that I didn’t master this. I tried to create a better one where I filmed a super hero climbing a wall however this failed so I kept with my original idea. I feel that when people watch my video not a lot of people will understand the meaning of it, in a way this is quite annoying because I would have like the meaning to be more obvious, however quite a people
Dirt
This is the piece that I really enjoyed making, it took up a lot of time and planning but I feel that it was worth it in the end. I first got my idea for this piece as I kept going to my friends house and it was really messy. I then watched Come Dine With Me, with inspired the play on words ‘Come Grime With Me’, for this I would create a student style Come Dine with Me, where the “Outcome is food poisoning”. One problem with this video is that it wasn’t actually very beautiful so when selecting shots to put in my montage, I thought that they didn’t suit the theme of beauty.
City
This was probably my favourite video which I have created due to the fact that I think that this is the video with the most ‘beautiful shots’. I really enjoyed making it mainly because the outcome was sucessful. I think it’s one of my videos that took the shortest amount of time and looked the most professional. I didn’t have to edit the film alot either and a could select a lot of images from it for my montage. I want to make an extended version and this time make one of every memver of the Media Production course. I find faces interesting as everyone is different and I like to include people into my pieces as it makes it come to life.
Time
This film came from a simple idea which I feel was one of my most successful and entertaining. The feedback from my class was positive as they stated that it reminded them of an old movie style. The slow motion created humour and I’m glad that it entertained people, instead of boring them as I feel entertainment is a key to media.
Nature
Eventhough I liked many of the shots in the video, a lot were shaky and I felt that it was a ‘typical’ montage video, which I didn’t really like because I don’t think it is my style. I enjoyed making the video as I felt that I captured some unique shots. One thing to improve this video would probably be to colour correct the videos and also to perhaps shorten the shots. I felt that the natural sound of the nature bought life into the film making it more interesting to watch. I quite liked capturing shots of nature, throughout this montage I haven’t created anything like this so it was good to try something new
Symmetry – Faces
This video took the longest amount of time, with editing and creating the footage. I don’t think it was a very sucessful video due to the fact that it cut off and wasn’t very well edited. I had trouble trying to get all of the clips to stay still due to the fact that when I filmed everyones faces they kept moving. If I was to create the video again I would definately get people to keep their heads and faces still, even though it would be hard this was one of the main problems. As well as the fact that I was trying to experiment by getting them to look up down,left and right but this messed up some of the footage.
Music -
For this video I created it for my montage as another one of my own words, I kept a static shot of my two friends playing their guitars and singing. I think that it worked well and so did the colour correction that I chose. If I was to film this piece again I would definately record the sound on another piece of equipment such as a merranz due to the fact that it didn’t sound very well. I would also try and experiment with other shots, however personally I felt that the one shot was enough.
I will now evaluate one piece in further detail. This piece is going to be Symmetry.
My first idea for symmetry was to create a piece of dance where everyone would be symmetrical and dance the same dance moves, however as soon as I thought of my idea I was bored of it.
I started thinking about faces and how they are supposed to be symmetrical, and thought about ideas of how I could use faces in the them of symettry.
Originally I thought about face morphing, but watching examples of videos made me realise I had actually no idea how to start or do this.
http://www.morphthing.com/celebrity/11576242-Michael-Jackson-Rowan-Atkinson
Whilst on Facebook I found the above link which allowed people to see what their babies would look like taking pictures from both of their partners, I thought this idea was quite amusing and thought about the idea of morphing different faces into each other.
The aim of the video was to make it visually entertaining and to shock people as they would wonder what it was. Whilst editing my footage in the editing suites I got a lot of postive feedback stating that it wa really interesting what I had done. The quality of the video is not that strong and it doesn’t last very long due to the fact that after editing the footage for so long only certain parts were worthy of the final video. I would like to re create and carry on developing the piece, due to the fact that when I showed it to people theyw were dissapointed as I hadn’t completed it properly. I would also like to use even more faces in the piece and perhaps use actual couples and make the predictions of ‘what your baby would like like in the future’, come to life.
