This is my Media Portrait.
Written Reflection for Project_Brief_3
My Media Portrait was of Georgie Kemshal-Bell, a friend of mine. I asked her to be the subject of my assignment because I thought she was interesting and had a personality suitable for making an interesting video (I will also admit, partly because she is one of the few people I know in Melbourne).
I am fairly happy with the final product, although there are a few issues that I wish could have been improved. Producing the Media Portrait was troublesome, mostly due to scheduling conflicts which limited the amount of time I could spend with Georgie. This meant it was not really a true “interview” but rather quite scripted and filmed over roughly a week. Although in my opinion, this “artificialness” doesn’t negatively impact the finished product, everything in the video is still Georgie’s opinion, except that the wording was timed and structured around fitting it with the footage already recorded. I am happy with how the finished product turned out, as during editing it was a series of completely isolated clips, one technical flaw is in order to have footage match narration, I had to leave un-cut video run and I am visible turning off the camera.
My biggest regret is the lack of Found Footage, I found it incredibly hard to find anything that matched our narrative, so almost everything was shot specifically for this video. The Found Footage I did use, was various music clips, and some rain. The “Dance music” was needed for the scene, and the other audio clip gave an ominous vibe which was intended for the at night shot, but I felt it worked well enough to continue to the end of video. The Rain was in-actuality me desperately trying to find anything that fit in order to add more to meet requirements.
I also became quite frustrated with the limited editing software of iMOVIE, having to abandon much of my initial ideas of editing. I will attempt to acquire a more advanced program soon.
Bibliography:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AFL_Studio_loop.ogg