So from my last post I posted my Project Brief 2 and I’m here to explain why I edited in this way. When I was first brainstorming ideas for creating my video an idea that struck me was a POV kind of video. I was thinking along the lines of ‘walks of life’. So I was fixed on the idea of taking POV pictures of me walking as I do in my video. The problem I had first was wondering how to start it. I had ideas of opening a door and walking with the camera pointing down at my feet but it felt a bit forced in my opinion. I felt like I needed something to ‘start off’ my video. So I thought of something that most kids my age do, well my demographic at least. I’m an avid gamer so I thought I would start it with something that would be relate-able to most gamers, which is the sound/process of turning on their Xbox. I had already recorded it from my project brief 1 and decided to use a bit of the clip for my video.
I had inspiration for the part of the video of I had the compilation of my feet in my different pairs of shoes, from the photo in my project brief 1 of my shoes. I was thinking in a way each pair represented an aspect of my life at some point, so this theme of pictures was on the same line as my idea of ‘walks of life’.
Next I wanted to show more detailed aspects of my life, so I took pictures and videos of things in my life. So I took a video of my dogs, the food I made and ate that night, my desk, my lounge area and such to give the viewers ‘a little glimpse into my life’. And for each shot I took I had the idea of shooting in a POV sense. Except for one shot which I attempted to do a bit of comedy. At the end I decided to do an outro like how I did the shot of me walking which I thought would fit the theme, a ‘walk out’.
When I was recording for voice and the backing track I just wanted a simple music backing track. So I just recorded a simple chord progression and looped it, lowered the sound so it wasn’t too overwhelming and I was happy with it. And with the voice, I watched the video a few times and wrote down lines I wanted to say, then I picked a few lines I liked and recorded them using a microphone. It was simple and fit my theme which is what I wanted.
Overall, I liked the idea of my theme and I hope you guys did as well.
