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The finished product is exporting! (hopefully this time adobe doesn’t crash)

My final installation video (comprised of all the portraits and the interviews – the file that would be used in the installation) is re-exporting, and I have to watch it to make sure if premiere crashes for the hundredth time, I can start the export again without wasting any more time *stress.* While that’s happening, I thought I’d talk a bit about the project.

 

At the start of the semester, I was hoping to do a documentary project, however I liked the idea of experimenting with different forms of documentary outside of documentary films which is my main focus. The project I’ve created for this final assignment is thus something that I’m really excited about. Not only have I created something new in a new style, but I’ve created a work that’s important, especially today. For that I am immensely proud, and will try to find a way to screen the work outside of this assessment as I think it works effectively to humanise and showcase LGBTQ+ issues in a way I haven’t really seen before. Even while watching the abbreviated interviews in the demo simulation I cut together (embedded below), I can see how effective the work is, and that was something I was always worried about in creating it – what if it fails to get the right message across?

I’ve taken a lot of care in editing the interviews to show exactly what effects queer people, and how different aspects of our lives shape who we are. It calls attention to the struggles that queer people face, and the way these issues come about.  Each interview shows different aspects of life as a queer person today, and highlights the diversity in experience that is crucially important to recognise when speaking about queer issues. Ultimately it’s a work that asks its audience to reexamine how they think about and interact with these issues. And I think it’s successful in that task.