To me, this video was less about what’s in the image, but more how the image is presented. Whilst I I try to offer things in my video which I believe to reflect my character, being a reflection of what I love, I wanted to portray my video in a way in which my ‘style, or personality, can be seen.
In order to display my love for cheesiness and the terrible, I had to make my video exactly that, and what better way than to give a Grade 3-personal-introduction-to-class’ type of video?
It was a lot of fun toying around with Premiere in the process of making this film, seeing just how bad I could make it. I owe a lot of it to the music which was composed by a good friend of mine after I gave him the inspiration of ‘70’s electro funk elevator music’, which I found suited the style of the video quite nicely.
Part of the terribleness I feel was heightened by the fact it was just me… in both a good and bad way.  I felt somewhat limited and frustrated having to constantly be setting up a tripod, sit down, pose, then see it as all wrong and try again, but I think it just adds to the cheap look I was after. Although, purely having static shots was not fun to work with.
In hindsight though, I do believe the process of my editing was rather rushed, even more so than the entirety of the project. In the end it didn’t quite get the right effect that I was looking for, close, but no cigar. It was bad, and not in the good way. I would have loved to have had spent more time on the project, but unfortunately compromises had to be made. Being so far away from my family, friends, and a large portion of my belongings, I found it difficult to think of some concepts, so I thought this one would suffice.
Though dissatisfied with the final product, feeling it doesn’t quite reflect me in the way I wanted it to (oops), ultimately I’m not disheartened by it, more looking to treat this as another learning experience.