Week 15

Wow. Our last week!

I am a little sad to be finishing this up, but I know I will continue taking the courses whenever I have time in my schedule. I have already finished my Time project, so I have just been planning my final video, which is still undecided. I really want it to showcase what I have learned so I have been going through my past videos to pull ideas. I think I would like to play off the idea of memories that I used in the abstractions, but make it less abstract and more narrative. These are just ideas but hopefully I can pull it off in time for the final!

Now that it is the end of the semester, I feel a lot more comfortable technically in Final Cut and I really wish I had more time to get into the special effects. I know that this class laid a great foundation for more exploration into the world of Final Cut, and I look forward to using it more.

As an artist I feel like I grew as well. Even if just a little, I do feel more comfort and appreciation for abstract art, at least in the film industry. I can't say its easy for me yet, but I am moving in the right direction at least.

Week 14

As I hoped, I was able to get some beautiful (or at least I think) footage over the weekend at home. My piece is inspired by a passage from Madeleine L'Engle's book The Irrational Season. It is about the new year and how time passes during the winter. For the video, I plan to include a narration of myself reading the passage. I have been going back and forth between putting in the narration or not, but I think it really ties the piece together and without it, the visuals make no sense. Hopefully this is the right choice artistically.

The preliminary screening seemed to go well but I don't think I had enough of it completed for there to be any real discussion on where I should move, except that I feel more affirmed in putting in the reading.

I have no idea what to do for my final project, and at this point I am just hoping for a ray of inspiration to strike me at any moment. Not my best idea, but we will see what happens!

Here is the link to my final cut of the Time Project: