In planning to revise my project, I would like to experiment
with how to play a video of myself under images of the friends I talk about in
the story. I realized that my last rough cut was very monotonous and that the
repeated videos of me standing by the pond were dull. I want to convey a
similar feeling, but in a more interesting way. My story tells of how I still
feel connected to my friends from my time abroad and how I have, in a way,
extracted bits of their personalities and incorporated them into my own
persona. This is why I want to play a semi-transparent video of myself while I
show a series of images of my friends.
The last feedback I received mentioned that the more
concrete details I included about my friends were a step in the right
direction, so I thought that it would be a good idea to include a visual when I
describe the friends. I selected images that really capture the essence of the
individuals and so these, over a video of my face, act to demonstrate my
internal feelings of oneness with the women. I’m still having some issues with
cropping the images and video to the right size, but I hope I can adjust them
to fit more seamlessly together. I was planning to either cut them down in size
or apply a fading to the video of my face so that it doesn’t look like a
rectangle, but rather, just a ghostly apparition in the background. I want to
make the video a bit ethereal, to make the images less scrap-book-y and provide
a connecting point to the fleeting feelings that arise in my audio.
I like the changes I have made to my audio and don’t plan to
edit it anymore—at least not heavily. I added a new emphasis on the original “shiny
bubble” metaphor from my very first audio version because I found images of
spilled oil from my neighborhood in London and also images that I took of
children playing with bubbles on the banks of the Thames. All in all, I plan to
continue in the same direction with my revisions, but I want to make sure that
my video is more seamless.
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