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Project Design Brief 2

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Project Design Brief 2 Self Portrait from Chrys on Vimeo.

For this project brief I tired to continue with the themes of travel and conversation I had in my first brief. I also kept the idea that I wanted to represent an older version of me rather than who I currently was as to show, how often I reflect and that I’m sentimental. For example the “padfoot jumper” within the video is my old graduation jumper and the conversation at the end is one I vividly remember having in year ten. I’ve also tried to create reflection through rewind  at then end of the clip and using book endings of a tram ride as I often find myself reflecting, especially when a highschooler jumps on.

I tried to structure my video as a normal school day, starting with getting to class, being in class then leaving class with friends before returning to me now, sitting on a tram thinking about how things used to be then. For the getting to class part of the portrait i’ve tried to edit together a lot of clips to keep the audience entertained so they don’t have to watch a 30 second clip of a train moving.

The music I made for my video captures who I am and used to be like, because I am often in my head, imaging something more exciting than a tram ride or a school class.
While the voice clip at the start, is my mum talking about how she still dreams about highschool, which often makes me think if it’s just something you are going to constantly reflect on for the rest of your life.

Although I am rather happy with the video i’ve produced i feel that I’ve still chosen quiet a literal representation of myself; meaning that rather than people seeing me as reflective/sentimental they’re see just me doing work and hanging with friends.  I tried to improve on this from my first project brief by changing my text and voice clips, to be more focused around high school without me blatantly saying, “I’ve been thinking a lot about high school lately”
With that said I am pleased with how travel and friendship/conversation has been expressed in my video, although next time i’d like to work more on editing to music and sound.

Self Portrait – Reflection

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How did you represent yourself?

I was sorta afraid to talk a lot about myself, I choose to represent a past version of me, something I wasn’t anymore.I didn’t really talk about family or who I was, making it hard for people to give me feedback. I’m worried that without me really wanting to put myself out there a lot of people maybe didn’t understand what I was trying to go for. Other people weren’t afraid to get super personal. For some people I was able to see what they were trying to represent quiet well in there pictures, there stories only helped clarified a few things.
It’s uncanny how much a single photo or piece of audio can strum up a lot of memories, even though some of us really didn’t choose to share them.

Artefacts work like that, they are meant to invoke a sense of story and understanding. Nothing exists in a vortex, every piece of media you put into the world is representative of you so it’s important to understand how your artefacts present you.
For me, I felt like some of my artefacts were to literal, they were of me rather than a representation of me, which is something i’ll have to be aware of in the future.

Self Portrait

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Lo-Fi Self Portrait

I am still unsure who I am at this moment in time, its a working progress. However I am painfully aware of the person I was. Identity in high school was a struggle, (everything in high school was a struggle) but if I didn’t suffer through the weird emo phase of year nine I don’t think I’d be who I am today. Through my self portrait I’ve tried to not only capture how grossly sentimental I am but who I used to be and how I used to feel

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I was lucky enough to have a very willing friend to pose as me in a few of my media pieces, because of that
I was able to capture a few shots showing things like body language and posture of teenage me.
The station I took the photo at was close to my first real crushes house, I was shy as anything which I tried to capture in the photo.

Travel was also super important to me as a teenager, I found myself always on a tram or walking somewhere. It’s weird for me to compare the places I use to frequent as a teenager to now. Also note my partner who I was filming during the tram route I used to take to school, purposely inserts himself into the frame then asks am I in it at the end, which felt very high school media project.

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These recordings were mostly just what I used to talk about on tram rides home or the type of notes that were passed. I think they captured just a lot of conversation really used to really start as guess what happened to me today.

5 astrological beans @StarrySailor  ·  Mar 1
I can’t believe I have to make a blog and do something that isn’t shit post on it

5 astrological beans @StarrySailor  ·  Jan 7
FUCKING. MOM SAID SOMETHING THAT VAUGLELY SOUNDED LIKE ITS UR SONG. I TOOK OFF MY EARPHONES AND THNKS FR TH MMRS IS PLAYING.

Text was just a few tweets I had posted recently that really made me reflect on who I used to be as a person, aka the kind of person who listened to fall out boy way to much and used to post emo poetry on a blog.