The self-portrait I created demonstrates particular aspects of my personality and lifestyle that I believe represent me the most accurately. The piece starts off quite simply with opening titles, I do enjoy a simple minimalist title as it keeps the piece clean and neat and adds to the overall artistic approach.
Firstly, I chose to add a short video and selected images of tickets, memories, photographs and trinkets that I keep on my bedroom wall. They are a reflection of my travels and experiences I chose to edit this in the way of a camera ‘clicking’ as it again represents the part of me that loves media and photography.
The piece then changes pace to a sound effect of static before I’ve added in a song that I recently wrote. The overlay for this song is jump cut footage of my synthesizer and music equipment- I believe it represents another aspect people know me well for; ‘music’.
I chose to complete this artistically, changing the video to black and white to represent a focus on the song and its lyrics. Further along in the video I chose to add in footage of myself lip syncing to the lyrics to make the words stand out.

I chose to add in/ record a segment of a song that I composed because I think it portrays my mind stuck in romanticism and always writing about love, life and things that make me feel alive.
Overall I really liked the start of my self-portrait but then worried as I created it the rest of it that It would be too artist and some people wouldn’t understand how it relates back to me, I’ve a very artist person I love colour and life hence why I wanted to portray a lot of floral into my piece as I’m always out and about collecting flowers whenever I can.
I really like the flow of movement and interpretation peoples body language which is why I used shadow to create a layer of artist movement towards the end of my piece, this paired with a calming sound of  wind added an abstract element I really enjoyed editing together.
Also within my video I’ve added the last four lines to one of my favourite poems, Henry’s Sic Vita. It’s about the inevitability of death and man’s mortality I really like this poem and think it fits well with the flowers and the fading mirror/hand as to me it represents reflection something I do very often.
To make this piece better I would have loved to spend more time I think setting up shots and to add more angles in although there are still quite a few.