Revisiting Project 3 (Click the link here)
My concept was based on anxiety so generally, my video was a fast pace. The speed and tempo of the music and rhythm along with visual to create that tense effect that I wanted to convey through my video. There were both regular rhythm and irregular breathing and heartbeat sounds. I think the irregular helps to bring out the intensity of the attack, confuse emotion out of the audience.
Movement – In terms of sustain, it can be seen at the beginning where I walk to the canteen The attack slowly seeps in at the part where I started getting dizzy and breathless when I felt that there were too many people who were judging me, there was a continuous build–up of slow movement as I was getting into anxiety. Afterward, as I get haunt by my anxiety the movement gets bigger gradually. Until the point where I finally ‘escape” to somewhere where I can be alone, there was a sudden decay of the music and movement in the video. The growing and intense movement at the front part of the video help to contrast the stillness in the last part of the video.
Causality – I think the people generally know anxiety as a form of being in a state of an attack. The two most common expected ending is where the person calms down after a while or the attack gets stronger and stronger till the point where the person will do something to stop it aka. death. I think for concept even though it is kind of clear where my video is heading towards but I mainly focus on the portraying how anxiety feels like. I think the objects I use are unexpected and adding on I use asynchronous sound which the audience did not expect an empty chips bag to sound like glass when crushed.
Duration – The video was considered short as I have many things going on at each frame. In terms of duration, I think the gradual build-up of the pace of my video certain helps me to bring the audience emotion to a high point before dropping the audio and visual all the way down. This drop allows me to have a sudden silence which I think I could have extended it longer. But overall I think the duration of my video was pretty alright.
Exercise 2
Brainstorm a list of 20 events that last about 10 seconds example. Things that last 10-sec thing that cannot last 10 seconds. Those that are bold are events that I want it to last longer.
- Eating my biscuit
- My bits of biscuits that travels to my stomach
- Searching for an item on Pinterest
- Scrolling my friends Instagram stories
- Sketching an idea that popped out of my head
- Moving my laptop to the switch to charge
- Swinging my legs
- Daydreaming
- Drinking cold water
- Replying messages
- Talking to my classmate.
- Thinking of the 10 seconds video that I have to make in 20 minutes
- Sniffing and sneezing
- Closing my eyes and sleep
- Looking at the ceiling
- Dancing
- Tying my hair
- Yawning for 10 secs
- Thinking about my assignment.
- Playing with Stella’s hair