When we were first given the task of filming videos on our phones to specific constraints per week for Integrated Media 1, the challenge seemed a bit daunting and frustrating as I spent a lot of time thinking about what I should film. As the weeks progressed, however, I began to let go of the pressure I was putting on myself to produce beautiful and interesting videos to the weekly constraints, and rather just ‘noticed’ the little things around me that I had always put in the background and put them in the limelight of my videos.

After completing my sketch film, I felt relieved that I had finally made a Korsakow film despite all of the hardships I faced when it came to using the program. As I couldn’t seem to get it to work at home on both Mac and PC computers, I spent my time after the tutorial finishing it in the library. My thumbnails wouldn’t line up with my main frame in the neat way I wanted them to, and I spent some time mucking around with changing the size of the thumbnails and the aspect ratio before it looked the way I wanted it to. Another problem I faced was that I couldn’t centre the text the way I wanted to, as how it looked on my interface editor was different to how it appeared when it was exported and played. This was the only problem I couldn’t seem to fix and settled on keeping it the way it was.

Although I was relieved to have the task well and truly behind me, I began realising just how much I missed filming and documenting my daily life, and the little beauties that I discovered. While I could of course continue making Vine videos, I found that having a constraint actually helped focus my attention on the things around me, for example; circular things, something fast, etc. I really missed showing only a part of a whole and filming something in a beautifully ambiguous way and so am now trying to focus my attention more each day and finding something I want to film. The main problem is doubting and questioning why I am filming this particular object. It definitely is a problem I continue to face and that Adrian has mentioned before; the narrative filmmaker being concerned with filming something perfect and with a purpose, rather than just documenting something that catches your eye, or even something just ordinary.

With our major group K-film, we have stuck to the constraint of ‘celebrations’ in order to help focus our attention on the clips we film. However, I still find myself doubting what I’m choosing to film and asking myself many questions of such as, ‘does this depict a celebration in the conventional way?’, ‘can I film something unconventional that still refers to a celebration?’, ‘will the audience understand our concept?’, ‘how will the audience feel when watching it?’ These questions I feel are unavoidable, but if I want to contribute to the project in the way I want I need to let go of my doubt and film as much as possible, and filter through the clips later on.