Creating the abstract video was an interesting task that was a useful and practical learning tool. Not having as much experience with the camera as I would like to, or should have, caused the filming of the shots to be more difficult than needed. In the end we got some interesting shots of shadows, our intended theme, however they were not as effective as they could have been due to not fully understanding or knowing well enough how to make the focus and exposure be at good levels for what we were filming.

I missed the first class so used some sounds from an unnamed folder in the media sever (hope that is okay and thank you to whoever’s sounds I used). The sounds I used we completely unrelated to the footage I used which was great as I was able to experiment with the idea of creating something abstract really well. Normally I am very included to create things that are straight forward and tend to shy away from the abstract.

I still think that I could have created a more abstract piece than I did, however it has turned out to be more abstract than I have created before.

My main two limitations for this exercise were:

1. control of the camera and therefore control of the shots and

2. knowledge of the editing process, I knew the straight forward things to incorporate, however I didn’t know how to implement some of the ideas I had to make the film more abstract due to not having enough knowledge of premiere pro and not leaving myself enough time to experiment with the program fully.

 

Gabrielle McLeod Abstract Task from Gabrielle McLeod on Vimeo.