Playing my self portrait for the class today was very intimidating for me. I love receiving feedback on my work but always get nervous presenting to people, and especially in this instance because the work was very personal. On the other hand, I was proud of my work and it was great to hear what other people thought about it and interpreted it to be. I also loved watching other people’s self portraits because every aspect of the work said a lot about the person and there was so much variation from video to video.

There were a few portraits that really stood out to me and sparked ideas for my future work as well as making me think about new skills that I could work on developing.

Lucas:

• Filming and editing were thoughtful and seamless
• Told a story – clips gradually grew shorter and shorter, then snapped back to slower cuts to create a sense of calm after the ‘chaos’
• Contrast between black & white and colour using split-screen – put a lot into 60 seconds
• Words jumped around on the screen and changed fonts – almost looked animated

Patrick:

• Editing – I want to learn how to have a black screen that reveals a video behind as words show up on the screen
• Layered two videos over each other (filters and semi-transparent)

Rob:

• Interesting use of colours, blur, layering
• Managed the switches in aspect-ratio well
• Use of repetition tied everything together well (e.g. video > photo > back to different segment of same video)
• Red hat: dark, mysterious