I wanted to explore a habit that has followed me right though life. Using lo-fi attributes from brief 1, and the incorporation of synthetic robot voices from the Haiku, I tried to represent my procrastination with a sporadic, anxious and sinister tones (unintentionally then intentionally).

I experienced a number of difficulties (not including major procrastination). I didn’t set out for it to be ‘sinister’ but the constant layering of effects, sound, music and flashes does this. I need to stick to my plans. I was originally going to make a video similar to John Winslow’s ‘How to keep smoking’ (I have studied his editing practices in a previous blog), but found it difficult to contain the video to 1minute. Also doing a voiceover in a similar mannerism to Johns takes practice. I also feel that my video ended too abruptly. Next time im going to plan out and script a beginning middle and end, instead of having a general idea and building from it (but then again I’m comfortable in this workflow)

What my videos actually about:Its about noticing weird ‘things’ in city (then combining them) and the ‘inner struggle’ I have as I avoid doing the brief. I find it always hard to start things, which is why the video starts at a blank word document, followed by still frames of social media to represent me avoiding work. The track underneath is the fast-forwarded audio of me playing gibberish on the melodica (I cant play instruments so I improvise).

Throughout I repeat similar scenes and sounds to tell the audience that I have not progressed or learnt anything as the deadline is approaching. I juxtapose danger tape and a man over the yellow line to say ‘im in danger of crossing the due date’. The vending machine and chess game symbolizes the ‘many choices I have and the hard slow decisions that I make’. Then the last part is the feeling I get when im editing on a closing deadline.

I did enjoy the experimentation of medias. I stretched audio (the robot voice saying ‘I continuously procrastinate’ goes for the entire video), applied effects to audio (reverbs, distortions) etc…

……but from now on (probably) I will use a DSLR because I am bored of the Lo-fi aesthetics in my previous videos.