I feel like I might actually live in the edit suites now. I’ve come back in to download the final 13 minute sequence with everyone’s footage in it and hand it in to Signal as well as the audio so that we can do the test run tonight. OUR EXHIBITION IS TOMORROW NIGHT, HOW HAS THIS HAPPENED SO FAST.

So for some reason that I cannot fathom I decided it would be a good idea to volunteer as speaker for both the Signal exhibition and the Media exhibition. I think my main reasoning is that it will further my skills. I’m generally quite a confident person so I’d like to try and be confident in front of a crowd too. Claudia and I met up today to outline what we will say at Signal. We decided it would be best to just talk about the process we’ve gone through to make this happen and then do a round of thankyous. We don’t want the speech to be very long at all.

Now that I’ve finished and edited my piece for the exhibition, I can focus more on my role in helping the exhibition get underway. Today I feel like Amalina, Dea and myself completed our first official task as a documentation team which was to create the trailer for the exhibition at Signal. We went into the edit suites at around 11am and didn’t come out until around 5pm. Making a trailer is generally pretty easy but we had to wait for everyone to upload their footage to the drive, we had to put all of that footage into Premiere Pro, arrange it around numerous times until it was in an order that suited what we wanted and we also had to pick the right soundtrack to go with it. On top of this, we didn’t want to leave the suites until we were completely happy with what we had created. The final result was a cool, modern glimpse of our media class’ projections that advertised ‘Obsession’ being held at Signal towards the end of the month. Can watch below.

So, on the day that we were supposed to view our final draft, I decided to change my entire concept and reshoot everything because that is how I roll apparently. I just wanted to make sure that my final product was something that I was proud of whilst also being visually pleasing. My new footage revolves around the textures and properties of egg and avocado, two foods that I am completely obsessed with and so is most of Melbourne’s cafe culture. I shot these clips in a way that plays with the idea of our consumption culture whilst also re-imagining the way we might use these foods.

I’m no photographer but part of my role in the documentation team has been to take head shots of everyone in the class so I can send them to Rose to put up on the website. I took photos of as many people as I could today but not everyone was there. I’m hoping the photos look half decent and that I can chase up those that i didn’t get to photograph at a later date.

My first sequence.

These are just a few shots taken today of everyone working on their final sequences! It’s exciting to see it all starting to come together. I’m thinking it might be nice to get some mini interviews of classmates talking about their concept perhaps? Just an idea

So my concept has evolved quite a bit. To broaden my idea, I’ve decided to base my projections around the idea of social connection and little moments that involve this. I captured some great footage on the weekend at my friend’s party and have put it together to make my first sequence. It actually looks better than I expected! At the time of filming, I really didn’t think I’d captured