Art Movie Reflection

Art Movie

Stephanie Brighton

Friday, April 17, 2015

Video (Premier)

Technical

In the technical aspects of this assignment it wasn’t so much learning new techniques as it was refreshing my previous knowledge of Premier. Something new for me would be downloading footage from secondary sources to use in my video. I changed the colouring of some footage and used different transitions in order for the footage clips to be smooth instead of choppy.

Idea or Concept

I started out with the idea of telling the story of a relationship. Automatically I thought of a romantic relationship. As I thought about it more I decided to change the type of relationship to a reunion between a father and son. The video starts in the past with the mother dying and her baby disappearing, leaving the father to be alone. Time then passes and goes the future where the baby is now a full grown man. Throughout the video, whenever there is a flash of white light, are flashbacks that the man is remembering from his past. This includes some flashbacks by the other main man in the video who is meant to be the father years later. The idea is for there to be a reunion between them. The flashbacks are them trying to put the pieces together, as if they recognize each other but can’t place how they know each other. One after the other they get on the same train. The last flashback is of a man killing someone. It is meant to make the viewer think about what is actually going on; has the dad or son died? Is that really them? Is this all just a coincidence?

Influences

An influence may have been human interaction. That’s one thing I like analyzing: human behaviour. I like thinking about all of the different situations people may go through in their lives. When I start to think about this then I end up wanting to show my own interpretation of something like, in this case, a father son reunion after being separated for a long time.

Motivation

My motivation was to tell a story because that’s what any artist, whether it’s musical, dramatic or visual, should do with their work. I tried to use different elements in order to create a story, such as the music, transitions and the way certain clips fit together.

Critical Assessment

I really like the music I chose for this video. Clair de Lune is one of my favourite pieces; it has such depth and emotion to it. In my opinion, this story is sort of heartbreaking, uncertain. Clair de Lune goes through many different emotions, the tempo changes which I think suits the video quite well. The only thing I found difficult about the progress was mostly the cutting of the videos. It was a bit of a learning curve to cut videos so they were precisely where I wanted them. And of course the brainstorming part took me awhile. I would think that I would have a great idea but I would keep changing my mind; I was finally able to stick to one idea and I’m with the one I chose.