When we were assigned this project I had no idea what I wanted to do. I knew I
wanted it to be something different than anything else I had done so far but I
was having a hard time coming up with anything. So what was the result… I
started day dreaming about my girlfriends surprise birthday party that I threw
the previous weekend. And it made me realize that I day dream A LOT, so I
thought it might be fun to do something related to day dreaming. So as I
thought, I started wondering what a day dream was. And I decided that a day
dream is almost like an illusion and is often something I wish was happening at
the present moment. So for my project I decided to bring the party to me.
I decided the best way to replicate the party would be to replicate the setting
in which the party took place. So I took the bright lights I bought for the
party and started putting them up in my room, recording as I went. It took me
seven hours, during which a lot of profanity was yelled but I was very happy
with how my room resembled that of the party. I finished my room by adding some
paper lanterns which I also had at the party and decided the only thing left to
do was edit my clips into a story. So at this point I was feeling good, but
that was when all hell hit! I could have done a whole other project on getting
my video from the video camera to the computer to edit. For some reason the normal
steps I would take to do this seemed to fail me, so I left home searching for
an answer to my problem. The result was driving over 200 miles going from place
to place, I was assured the next place could help me. Class on Wednesday wasn’t
even on the agenda if I was to finish so I put it on the back burner and
decided that I could make up that work later. And after 5 hours of driving
around a family friend finally returned my call and told me he could help. And
luckily after about another 2 hours of finagling we were able to get it on the
computer. And the only thing I was missing at home…. A high def cord…. Gosh I
hate technology… But the only thing I could do was trudge on, so I started
editing and decided that the main thing I wanted my clip to do was elude the
viewer. I wanted the viewer to wonder whether what they were seeing was taking
place or not, so I decided to show a picture of me thinking at the beginning of
the clip and at the end, that way the video came full circle.
in which the party took place. So I took the bright lights I bought for the
party and started putting them up in my room, recording as I went. It took me
seven hours, during which a lot of profanity was yelled but I was very happy
with how my room resembled that of the party. I finished my room by adding some
paper lanterns which I also had at the party and decided the only thing left to
do was edit my clips into a story. So at this point I was feeling good, but
that was when all hell hit! I could have done a whole other project on getting
my video from the video camera to the computer to edit. For some reason the normal
steps I would take to do this seemed to fail me, so I left home searching for
an answer to my problem. The result was driving over 200 miles going from place
to place, I was assured the next place could help me. Class on Wednesday wasn’t
even on the agenda if I was to finish so I put it on the back burner and
decided that I could make up that work later. And after 5 hours of driving
around a family friend finally returned my call and told me he could help. And
luckily after about another 2 hours of finagling we were able to get it on the
computer. And the only thing I was missing at home…. A high def cord…. Gosh I
hate technology… But the only thing I could do was trudge on, so I started
editing and decided that the main thing I wanted my clip to do was elude the
viewer. I wanted the viewer to wonder whether what they were seeing was taking
place or not, so I decided to show a picture of me thinking at the beginning of
the clip and at the end, that way the video came full circle.
Having completed the project I am pretty happy with how it ended up. I am personally
very self conscious about how I appear to people, so there were several times I
thought I looked like an idiot but overall I was very happy with it. The one
thing I didn’t like at all was how the clips I used to narrate my video came
out. For some reason I thought that the quality of these clips just wasn’t very
good and everything I did just seemed to make it worse. So that is definitely
something I would have liked to come out better, but I don’t feel like I can
really complain when that’s the only thing that I was unhappy with. I was also
very happy with just how the story as a whole progressed. I thought that my
narrative showed what I wanted it to do, and when I added the music I was
personally very proud of myself because I felt like it just made the video so
much more complete. Overall I would say that I was very happy with how my
project turned out!
very self conscious about how I appear to people, so there were several times I
thought I looked like an idiot but overall I was very happy with it. The one
thing I didn’t like at all was how the clips I used to narrate my video came
out. For some reason I thought that the quality of these clips just wasn’t very
good and everything I did just seemed to make it worse. So that is definitely
something I would have liked to come out better, but I don’t feel like I can
really complain when that’s the only thing that I was unhappy with. I was also
very happy with just how the story as a whole progressed. I thought that my
narrative showed what I wanted it to do, and when I added the music I was
personally very proud of myself because I felt like it just made the video so
much more complete. Overall I would say that I was very happy with how my
project turned out!
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