Throughout the self-portrait brief I attempted to contrast the way I see myself with how my friends see me. In the last brief, I focused solely on how others perceive me, figuring it was the most accurate description of myself; however, on reflection I realised I was simply shying away from being overtly personal. In the start of the video I used friends’ words to give the audience a concise description of myself upon which to build. Throughout the video, I attempted to show strengths and weaknesses along with my passions and hobbies, feeling as though showing one or the other wouldn’t give an accurate depiction of myself. One weakness I focused on was my disorganisation: an integral part of who I am. I showed this through an audio clip of myself and friends talking about how undisciplined we can be. I also emphasised my love of music throughout the video, something I used in my first project brief; however, I focused less on musicians and, rather, used my own composition as an audio piece running as a motif through the video, giving the piece a sense of structure. Also, through editing, I attempted to tie the visual cues to sound clips to again give the video a sense of form: using a photo of my journal combined with various typing audios dubbed over, enabled the audience to see that although I love modern technology can be an ‘old soul’. I still feel there is a strong place in the world for ink and paper. My ‘old soul’ was further symbolised by the record player that I visually edited to contrast my love of the old with my love of the new, and how I strongly believe they are complementary rather mutually exclusive. There are points through the video, however, that I wished I could have improved, in particular the video shot of my cat. My love of animals forms a strong part of me, but I didn’t feel it was fully integrated into the video.

Overall, feel as though I painted an accurate depiction of myself; however there a plenty of areas I would like to improve and am looking forward to doing so over the duration of the course.