LP POST FOR VIDEO ESSAY: TIME

While creating the essay I thought about different narrative structures that wanted to follow. Pondering Manny ideas of what I could illustrate, after thinking for a while I settled on creating a video essay on why I got my tattoos. For me personally, this is something I wanted to do for myself as I’ve always wanted to express why got my tattoos and video format. When first recording the video the rough-cut was over 40 minutes and I was able to edit it down to only 14, for my first critique I showed the class I thought to be adequate and I got feedback on how I can better improve my concept, I then proceeded to try to narrow my video down and make it less than five minutes. When viewing the narrative structure of video I tried to mimic how of Vlogger/ youtuber it Would have curated hey regular video. This is done with over-the-top animations and corny music. Normally I feel like the topic I was talking about can be seen as serious so I was looking at bringing a more lighthearted approach to my final. I showed this to the class and then I got feedback on what I should add. After getting that feedback I went and made the adequate adjustments. Also while working on the editing in total there ended up being almost 12 layers stacked on top to get the desirable effects. So this for me was a long tedious process. That video overall covers The main reasons why I got my tattoo while showcasing helpful illustrations to help the audience better understand the concept. I feel like overall this was conveyed well, apart from slight editing corrections I could make in the future I’m happy with the final outcome

In terms of the arc of my story, I started with a brief introduction and then I slowly built up by explaining the reasons of which why I got my tattoos, and then resolving those issues and then finally concluding the video. I feel as if when telling a story I wanted to represent some sort of conflict and how I overcame it. Which I tried to represent in this video. The feedback from the class is editing related and not necessarily content related, I got tips to cut down unnecessary things which I try to do while editing and also how I can better change the effects. I think this led to a strong final video.

 

Reading Response: Visual Narrative Structure, Neil Cohen.

While looking at the reading my main focus was figure three after reading and very clearly lays out that there is an establisher. Then an initial then a prolongation an caked lastly the peak, this acts as a sort of breakdown for how the sequencing works. And the most important part of his stated in the reading is the peak. I was thinking about how I can apply this to my video essay but I feel like my essay was quite bland. The peak of my essay would have been when the conflicts in my life starting to rise. And I showed that video throughout the video, I overall felt like focusing on that for the reading because I felt like everything we’ve done in class thus far has had some sort of narrative structure and because I feel like it’s important to understand that and being able to replicate that in ones of work. Without being able to understand how is story naturally progresses you can leave the viewer board or I’m interested so This is what I chose to focus on during the reading.

 

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