https://drive.google.com/a/rmit.edu.au/file/d/0BzsJ1KwHFXRTS1hYUUdJUnUta2c/view?usp=sharing

The reason I chose this video is because I actually didn’t like it. Instead of talking about what I was trying to do with it, instead, I’m going to talk about what was wrong with it.

So, basically, the instruction was to make a forty second video of us making our bed. We could use as many shots as we needed, as long as the camera was stationary with each shot.

The main problem was that I had already fallen into the mindset that this video was going to be shit. When I saw what the restrictions were, I immediately started thinking about all the difficulties I was going to face. Basically, knowing that I was going to have to shoot the video in my room, and that my bed needed to be in the shot, I was already restricted to having only one shot. There is only one floor space in my room that is big enough to hold a tripod, and every shot from that space couldn’t even see any of my bed. So instead, I came up with the shotty solution to masking tape my camera to the wall, and have it rest at about a thirty-degree angle on my bedhead. The shot looked alright, but the only problem was that I couldn’t even be in it. So, my only solution to make it slightly more interesting was instead to film myself messing the bed up, and play it in reverse, which brings me to my second problem.

I really liked the idea, and it could have worked. But watching it a few times before I finally gave up and uploaded it, I noticed something was off. It was only until a bit later, that I realised that I wasn’t animated enough. My movement was a bit too subtle that sometimes, you couldn’t even tell that the video was in reverse.

So yeah, basically, what I got out of this is that, sometimes, the location is just going to be shit, but there are ways of working around that, even though they may be extremely difficult to find. I know this epiphany is kind of anti-climactic, but hey, every experience is a learning experience.