Paste the link here from your version of the abstract editing exercise.

Then reflect on the whole process – Consider: the quality and usability of your recordings; the effect of layering and juxtaposition of both the audio and the video and; the things you learnt from working with this kind of audio and video.

It was a shame that we did not record more so not many clips to choose. Each video was collected around the themes of stillness and movement. While editing, I decided to make use of colour and speed to relate all the visual clips. We had footages of hair blowing in the wind, shadows of a tree on the ground, and leaves with glint of sunlight. We also had shot through a rotating water bottle; which is already quite abstract. I had repeatedly used the footage of rotating water bottle as a transition. I hoped to make a rotation effect that was similar to a merry-go-around. I changed the colour and saturation to give a different feeling when the same footages appeared again. It is quite hard to add in the audio files Kimberley and I collected because we did not record in a good quality. I feel like working with the audio files with the video clips make it quite confusing. I found an absence of sound may in fact work well so I put in silence along with the footage of the still leaves. They were more like to create a contrast with all the movements; and the absence of sound may as well bring another space to the overall video. I really enjoyed working on this abstract exercise. It inspires me to look deeper into things from different perspectives; and to compile them with that one particular relationship that do not intend to have meanings for a creative content.