i) The most successful part of this media portrait, is that Christine’s art style is portrayed both through original and found footage. The soundtrack also works well with the pieces of footage as well as the recorded sounds, as it has no vocals and is successful in being a background piece. The most problematic aspect of this is probably my poor use of the time frame, because if there was more a longer time limit then it would have been more beneficial in terms of learning about the person in this portrait, but because I was limited to two minutes, I did not portray her personality and her life as well as I wish I could have. Another problematic occurrence was the static that was present during the voiceover, this stood out to me because you can hear it as soon as the voiceover starts, and it noticeably disappears when the voiceover stops.

ii) Some key learning discoveries that I made in the process of this project was that there are different ways, visually, that a story can be told. Even by using found footage that are completely unrelated to each other, given the context they are in for this video, they suddenly work well with each other and can relate to a story they are contributing to tell. Another discovery made, is that even though this is sort of an interview, it can still be considered a narrative, whilst treating “Christine” like a character. It was also unnecessary to have a script, which I didn’t think would be the case, so it made shooting this very more simplistic in pre-production.

iii) One specific thing that I learnt in the making process, is that if I do multiple shoots for an interview (or scene), I need to make sure that I recreate the first shoot for the next., and even though I am used to doing this visually, I did not think about doing this with sound. It wasn’t until the post-production stage that I came to the realization that I had changed the sound environment in the second shoot, as I had windows opened and doors open which lead to more background noise, which I didn’t have in the first shoot. This also made things difficult during editing, because if I wanted to merge two audio clips, then I had to have something between them (whether that be no audio or another piece of footage), so that it wouldn’t be obvious for the viewer.