At the start of task 4, I set myself the goal of dedicating a week to experimenting with different cameras as well as software programs such as Premiere Pro so that I would be able to gage which would be best for my work. However me being me and being completely unable to stay organised even with a weekly plan, I found the week had come and gone and I hadn’t completed this experiment. But I think this was a blessing in disguise because after discovering Korsakow I was extremely confident that this was the program I wanted to use to display my final piece. From the beginning I was very apprehensive about Premiere Pro as I knew from Media 1 that I can get very overwhelmed by the editing process and ultimately be unhappy with my final piece due. Furthermore, with my final piece I am trying to communicate that there is so much to notice, specifically patterns, around us in our everyday lives. For me noticing isn’t an edited experience, it happens whenever it happens and I felt that Premiere Pro would lead to me over editing and perfecting my task 4 piece which isn’t what noticing really is for me. I was interested in manipulating my footage so particular videos and sounds were sped up or slowed down like Daniel Crooks and Jess MacNeil have done in their work but I think because I’m trying to communicate a sense of the patterns in our everyday lives that I want to try and keep the footage as realistic as possible and show that there are patterns without technological manipulation or editing.

In terms of the devices I will use to capture video and audio for my final piece, I felt very happy with the iPhone audio recording quality I had experimented with for task 3 so I will continue to use that. I was originally planning on experimenting with other cameras such as the Sony MC50 or my Canon EOS 600D however after some experimenting with Korsakow, I felt my iPhone would be best. When experimenting with Korsakov I realised that if I were to shoot in portrait or landscape, their would be a border and I felt shooting with a square frame was more universally flattering for all of my subject matters as it would’ve been more difficult to frame some of the small objects if I was looking through a portrait or landscape frame.

However the regular iPhone camera doesn’t allow you to film in square so I discovered the Apple app called Clips. It was free, really straight forward and also a nice way to see my collection of videos form.