I found exercise two to be a fun little project. Up to this point I wasn’t totally sure what the practical component of this class was going to look like exactly, so it was both enjoyable and informative to begin to experiment with the visual side of the observational work we’ve been doing up to this point. For mine and Tessa’s project we opted to work off of my fifth observation, as we felt it gave us some interesting options for visuals and as Tessa isn’t currently in lockdown, giving her the visual side of the project seemed to make the most sense.
Overall I was pretty happy with our finished video and I feel like we did a really good job of bringing together both of our ideas of what it could be together into one finished product. We ended up with a fairly simple video which opted to try and capture the mood, rather than be a pure visual documentation of the words being spoken. In terms of creating an effective and relevant visual companion for the written work, I think we did a pretty good job. The visuals of course are nothing remarkable but I think they are at the very least effective in creating this sort of dark atmosphere that the writing is talking about.
I definitely got a lot out of exercise two, especially considering how simple a project it was all things considered. Perhaps most importantly completing this video has really got me thinking about the possibilities for our future forays into video, and has really given me a sort of framework to work from going forward. As discussed with Robin, I really want to continue to explore this concept of capturing mood with visuals so it’s definitely been a helpful experience to begin doing that here.