Evaluation

my evalutaltion for my video is quite hard to write out because im not sure on the video itself. i wanted to try to do a fully kinetic type video, although this didnt work out due to technical difficulties so that was a shame, as i wanted to broaden my knowledge into motion abit more, i was looking on youtube for tutorials and found a really good one for motion 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZMmn7dmPmY&feature=related

this helped me to figure out alot of the basics as well as the tutorials that had been put on the server for us to look through. one difficulty i did have was using the keyframe editor and adding keyframes in the correct places and the actually working correctly.

when i got the hang of what i was doing i think it started to come together well.

i didnt get any comments on my footage in my crit so i didnt know if it was relateable or not, but i do think it relates well and has that moody, depressing feel which would of been the feelings of those times. the class had said that my music matched the mood perfectly which i was actually unsure about to start with but this helped to sway my decision so i stuck to it my other choice was
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLPJc71Osvk

because of all the technical troubles i had in the holidays i started working on my original video to mix in the text aspect and try to get it to fit together, one problem i did have was pictures not being the same size as the footage. unfortunatly i didnt realise when filming that the footage would be either landscape or portrait and this does show as a weakness in my video. but from this i can learn to be more careful and choose how i am going to film and finish my video to suit. 

ive changed the beginning of my video from an image to kinetic text. alot of people in the class have used the bbc4 logo yet i couldnt find where this was located so unfortunaelty i havent been able to find this? it does make the video look more proffessioal so this is yet anouther flaw to my film.

anouther thing that didnt go quite to plan was trying to find the images of martin luther king and the archive footage in a good HQ quality, i purchased a dvd from the interent but after several attemepts to try and get the dvd footage onto my mac with no success i gave up and used footage downloaded from the internet. maybe there is certain software to convert dvd's to .MOV format???

apart from these i am happy with the outcome of my video and feel i have achieved a film that fits with the time era, and also a short film which i think is interesting to watch (hopefully!) although i have less blog and sketchbook work which isnt good, ive been finding it harder to time manage with this project as its going out and filming, then if its not right refilming and all my attention is on the film and not on blogger, also im not sure what you can really put in  a sketchbook on film making. maybe screenshots of the building proccess but i can learn from this in future and show a step by step guide to my final outcome. 

overall i found this a really fun project and one were ive learnt the most.