I finally got around to having enough time or the effort to attempt the haiku exercise. It was a learning experience, I already knew how to put a video and music together in a video but I learnt how to edit text into it and edit the text. I had some difficulty in managing the colour of the text as if I went with the white you wouldn’t be able to see it. So I went for a colour that could blend with the video and fits with Haiku I randomly chose.
Haiku Exercise from Matthew Duong on Vimeo.
Disclaimer: I found my draft for this a few days after I actually wanted to post this
So we presented our first project briefs in week 2’s tutorial and a few things that surfaced from the presentation in groups.
Everyone in my group had an interest or hobby in playing or creating music and musical instruments. It was a refreshing exercise getting to know others in the class and I found that most of us are very similar in our interests and hobbies. Most of the footage we saw or heard were just elements of our daily lives or ambience. Some of us capturing videos of the ambience outside, some of us filmed a routine in their daily lives, out of all of us we showed pretty much the same things but they were each different and unique because each and every single one of us are unique and different. We all showed footage of our daily lives but what each element that was shown was very much different to the last and for were recorded for different reasons. For example I took a picture of a cake I happened to be eating at the time to symbolise my sweet tooth and someone else might’ve done the same but just because they were eating cake, no ulterior motive at all.
All in all the exercise was refreshing getting to know several others and their reasoning for taking the various videos, pictures or sound clips of their daily lives.