After brainstorming, shooting and editing I have finally made my first 1 minute video for University. Originally I had the idea of shooting things that I liked: weightlifting, cars and food. Afterwards I would use the footage to tell people what I liked and narrate it through text and background music. However this idea was very literal and bland. I had to come up with something better. Through lots of revisions and extra recording I came up with some more metaphoric and engaging to the audience.

The video that I am submitting is literally me at work editing a video. However with the use of little text and visuals people being to wonder what this is all about. The question is what am I actually editing? People begin to wonder through the hints of self doubts and  random photos of my life what this all means.

SPOILER ALERT…

I am actually editing myself. The sequences are all the media I have taken and become the building blocks to my self-portrait. ALL of the visuals from photos to text are representative of me and when you put it all together through the sequence you an idea of who I am. Me editing myself is a metaphor to my own personal development through the experiences I go through.

Technicalities:

This is the sequence I have generated with all the footage I have compiled, cut and manipulated:

Key framing for the second title:

There were two shots where I did key framing. I used it on the second title to give a jump cut effect and I did it on the second last shot to give a zoom and speed up effect so it can go into the next shot. These two shots were important because this is what gave it the looping effect where I am making video of me editing myself making a video etc. This idea is inspired by Christopher Nolan’s film “Inception” where the main characters enter dreams into another dream to achieve an objective.

Overall I edited the sequence with a lot of jump cuts to five that instant effect with the shots and speed up the video. However at the very end of the video I placed a slow motion shot just to show contrast and give the audience a little break.