Most of the discussion in this lectorial was in regards to the next portrait project. When I heard the word “portrait” mentioned for the next project I thought “oh no, not again.”  But as soon as it was revealed that this project is to be done on someone else that you know, I was so relieved.  I will find it so much easier doing a media portrait on someone that I know rather than doing it on myself again.  Another bonus is that we aren’t so restricted to what resources we can use on this project.

What is interesting about this project is that we have to incorporate “found footage” in our media portrait.  We were told to ignore the wikipedia definition of found footage.  Instead found footage is  ‘pre-existing film footage appropriated by a filmmaker and used in a way that was not originally intended.’  I’m really looking forward to using archive footage and to see how I can incorporate it to a different meaning in my project.  We were shown other portraits in class to give us some inspiration.  They were very good and helped generate ideas that I can use in my piece of media.