Because this creative test is a 2 minutes video, and our final work will have a 1-2 mins introduction part to give the background of today’s urbanization and population issues, so our group wanted to complete the major content of the first introduction part this week. Therefore, all the footage is more focused on the crowded city space and people flow, and I believe the clips from three different cities can give the audience a feeling of being crowded intuitively. Secondly, our final project will be a subjective story, like a personal journey, so we also used few individual point-of -view perspectives in creative work, such as recording our own shadow on the ground or following the dense crowd. We are trying to make the audience’s eyes follow us, but more attempts may be needed.
During the editing process, I found it is easy to show the crowded cities (After all, the flow of people during peak hours is really scary), but how to reasonably select and sort these videos materials is a problem. The sequence of the clips and the matching of voice-over needed to conceive the narrative of the entire film in advance, so this creative work made me think about the rhythm and narrative method of the documentary.
However, it is precisely because all the footage is about urbanization and population, I feel like this creative work is more like a ‘one day trip in a crowded city traffic’, but there is not too much mention of environmental issues, I personally feel that the theme of this creative work is not clear enough. In addition, since there is no self-portrait in the shooting this time, I think the ‘narrative’ of the surrounding environment has more weight and lacks of ‘journey’.
Therefore, in terms of improving the content of the film, we need to be bolder and more subjective in expressing our views on urban environmental issues. We have captured the present status of urbanization, and now we should consider how to express the relationship between cities and greenhouse gases (the subject of our research).
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