Phew! I think my final submission is so much better than what I have imagined. I was so lost during the past few weeks. PB3 feels so different from PB2 because for PB2, I had a very strong feeling of what I want to film, but for PB3, I have been so lost, so lost that even my classmates know about this. I was not sure what to ask, I was not sure where to shoot this interview. I feel like all my peers are interview really interesting people like chimney cleaner, people with special disease/conditions, people with unusual career, and here I am, interviewing my 7 year old daughter.
The weather forecast said it was going to rain when I borrowed the camera but luckily there was a bit of sunny time so I grab my daughter and went to our local park and film it while we can. The outdoor lighting is awesome.
I think the background music works really well with the happy feeling of my video. (Caitlin helped me chose it too :)) To be honest I was sort of like half-give-up and was just having a normal conversation with her and the topic of happiness suddenly came into my mind. When I was still pregnant with her, I went for my antenatal check up, the OB listened to her heartbeat and told me that she is a happy baby. Luckily this is still the case until she was complaining about being thirsty and wanted to go home, so we ended the local park filming and filmed more footages at home about her toys.
I like how my interview shows her true personality because she is usually a bit shy and quiet when there’s strangers present. I can’t help myself laughing at her silly moments, I included those in the video hoping that other audiences will laugh too, as Caitlin mentioned in the video that she wants to ‘spread the happiness to other people’. I was relieved when I showed the video to some of my friends and they said it worked. They felt happy when they were watching the video. As an adult I found it more difficult to be truely happy as what we used to do when we were little kids. It is also a reminder of how pure and simple children’s worlds are, and how little things is sufficient to make they happy.
As of the funny moments, I think the zooming in of her expressions when she said I do her chores for her worked really well. It emphasizes how cheeky she is and enhance the laughing factor too. This effect was inspired by some videos that I watched on Facebook.
I think I can work better on video transitions because there are a few places where I feel the cut is too sharp, too short and too sudden. I was also worried about the background music not lowered enough to be able to listen to what Caitlin says, but at the same time I am also worried about if I lowered the background music too much, the difference when it comes back up loud again when there’s no one talking is too sharp. Feedback welcome on this.