Ok so… I know I’m supposed to write two posts per week but week 11 for me was more focused on my other classes and I didn’t get up to much editing or thinking about box at all considering I had three essays to smash out that week. I’d prefer if I could write another post about week 12 which has been much more vital in experimenting and developing Blue Moon. So this is that post, which in my opinion is much more interesting than what I would have wrote in week 11 because I’m having a scary epiphany.

In my previous post, which I intended to be my last, I had uploaded the final cut of Blue Moon to Vimeo and shared it with a friend and showed a housemate etc. I was happy because it was ‘done’ and uploading meant setting it free into the world. However, as the assessment 4 deadline looms I checked back to see if I had missed any posts. I had missed my second week 11 post, which I was going to rewrite just now. Week 11 post part one discusses a muffled track I intended to put over the outdoors scenes of Blue Moon that I never got around to doing. It was the song with an effect that made the music sound as if it was coming from another room. To chuck it into my week 11 post I quickly scrapped together the muffled song over the visual… and loved it…. too much.

Yes my final cut is done…. yes i’ve uploaded and sent it out to the world… but this effect encapsulates exactly the diegesis I love in the Top Of The Lake clip I deconstructed here. The train in the background is way more apparent, the song is less controlling, it’s much less of a ‘music video’. I’m hoping my group gets back to me with feedback asap because I need advice. Is it worth reworking or should I leave it?

LESSONS LEARNED: If you plan on experimenting, take the experiment the whole way through otherwise what’s the point of experimenting at all (right ladies!)
– no half-assing!

Here’s the muffled sound with image below (SOS):

Sorry to leave you hanging!