Parts of the week 11 exercise:

Perspective

Unfortunately, I wasn’t in class due to getting my wisdom teeth out and I spent several days feeling horrible and sleeping since I couldn’t concentrate. However, when I filmed the video footage (also used for our assignment), our group tried to use perspective by showing different camera shots and angles. We used it to change the audience’s focus to different parts of the body from the whole body to specific parts.

Through this exercise, I discovered the way perspective in visual and audio can affect one another and the audience’s experience. If they compliment each other, they can enhance the intended effect and depth of field. Or if there’s a long shot video with audio of a loud close up, it could attract the audience’s attention to that action and body part whilst understanding the whole body’s involvement in the action and the surrounding environment. There are many ways to use perspectives in both media modes to strengthen the narrative or desired effect.

Feedback?

Sadly, I wasn’t able to be there to receive feedback from another group. But trying to look at our work objectively, we might think more purposefully on the way we use perspective, how it can help our multisensory experience (which close ups are good for being immersive), and the transitions through them. Our shots were good though and the intended experience was clear. We should also work on how the pieces fit together as a collection and how to show that.

Our group can use these discoveries in the work for the exhibition by carefully planning, filming and editing with ideas of how we want the audience to feel and what we want them to focus on. As well as trying to enhance our narrative with perspective, we should try to find how to link all our videos, whether it be within them or around them.

Our group’s next steps

Following Thursday’s class, our next steps for group work are to finish filming and editing our videos, which we’ve made good progress on. We need to make sure we all know exactly how we’re going to exhibit them as a collection and the props, titles and details for the exhibition.