SMELL

 

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SENSE OF SMELL

Personally, of all the senses smell is the closest tied to memory. The mere act of smelling my significant others shirt places me in his arms. His hands, lips, cheeks and neck all have a smell, not a good smell like of warm cake or brewed coffee yet not a bad smell either, just his own individual, personalised scent. The smell of his abdomen make feel warm and secure hence laying entangled within his shirt helps me sleep. I have found myself in public hastily looking around in desperation, expecting to see him. However, he was nowhere in sight, I swore that I had smelled his chest, but I was wrong. Within this second visual piece I had attempted to portray this. Merely holding an item of clothing that belongs to another person is a very consuming sensory experience, whereby a perceptual exchange of the body and a ‘thing’ is just left in your possession.

What you felt worked well and not so well about this piece?

Like its predecessor, the footage appears quite underexposed, however, this somewhat adds to this dreamlike, imaginary state that was seeking to portray. The footage appears obscured, allusive and quite fragmented, alike the human psyche.

I also feel as if the shots in which include myself (most definitely was not ideal) as at this time I did not have anyone to help me portray this character. This limited filming capabilities as I had to hold the camera in front of my own face. I feel as if within the film this is quite obvious thus for future projects I must be more organised. 

I did encounter some problems during post-production when attempting to create a flashback type transition, so I was unable to execute that to the standard that I had intended. Yet I feel as if I quite well communicated that dreamlike appearance as my character smells an item of clothing in which belongs to some boy within her life and introduces said character through her imagination.  

How did you make use of exercise one feedback for exercise two?

Unfortunately, I was absent during this feedback class which I am quite unhappy about as this class I am sure would have been quite insightful and would have helped me to improve my skills as a media creator for future projects.