Written Reflection
My initial goal for this project was to improve my overall quality of my film in terms of technicality, overall production, editing skills and quality of shots to create an interesting interview. I had a lot of trouble with exporting my video to the same quality as it appeared on premiere, the audio whilst sounding very good on premiere also came out a lot more sensitive when exported, the background noise was a bit fuzzy and overpowering. This was strange because I was in a quiet space inside and when practicing the week before that audio sounded fine. I also found the volume jumped a lot so I had to go back and re-export and make a few adjustments to fix this up. I thought the successful parts were definitely during the filming process, I had a clear vision in my mind of the composition of shots and what I wanted, the storyboards assisted this but I allowed myself to be lenient. I think the quality itself looks really good and the shots assist in the corresponding ideas. I liked that I used varying shots of different guitars and editing videos, perhaps if I were do do it again I would maybe plan some other things to do, showing him teaching or collaborating with a director would’ve been a great way to show this yet the opportunity within my time frame just didn’t work out. I also think for next time I would have a clear idea or direction of where I wanted the interview to go. Whilst my interview holds good substance I don’t think it necessarily follows a journey, I think perhaps delving deeper into his life and focusing on one key aspect that we can really flesh out would’ve been better. However, all this things that occurred have allowed me to consider what makes this interview good and bad and I will use this when creating another interview and in future other videos because hey all interrelate the key is to engage audiences. This whilst quite simple is also a complex task that is something I need to continue to practice and I think for me the best way to do this is to keep producing work. I defiantly learnt a lot about interviews and the importance of having relevant footage to pair with the answered questions, I also learnt that an interview has to tell a story have a climax and something that builds. This not only stirs emotions but it engages viewers. Finally the editing was another learning process that will continually assist me as a media practitioner, very time i use it I learnt new skills and figure out how to use editing to tell a story and create moments that a high and low in tension. Another thing that I found really added dimensions to my work was the use of found footage, this was a hard task at first to get relevant footage that was under creative commons license but once found it really gave something else to the interview in a way that audiences could visually see something different and relative to the audio. This brings me to my next point of what i learnt and that is the importance of audio, it was said in class but good audio really makes an interview and I think despite a slight lack of clarity the audio is able to be heard and understood and likewise when paired with the music really pairs the whole interview together. Overall I am proud of the work I have produced but as always there are many aspects I wish to improve on.
All FOOTAGE FOUND ON CREATIVE COMMONS WEBSITES/ARCHIVES:
- “”A Melbourne Morning”” Written and composed by Simon Watt
- Hallelujah https://archive.org/details/DeepPurpleHallelujah
- Melbourne Morning Melbourne MusicBank Winner Footage sourced from Simon Watt
- Simon Watt short film compsosition clips https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38xp8_7Q4JY
- The press – “Night” (Bruce Cumming:guitar,b/vocals, songwriter; Steve Ko: lead vocals; Rick Doolan:drums and Michel Brouet: bass, backing vocals.) Posted by Michel Brouet. Under creative commons attribution license https://vimeo.com/159160425