Editing - Self Portrait

In terms of the editing for my self portrait film, I found it much more straight forward than the editing for my drama piece. This is because the concept was a lot simpler and I had a lot more freedom about how to put the clips together as the piece was rather experimental. For the imagery, I wanted there to be a balance between natural imagery and footage of the drawing to create lots of cutaways to keep the film interesting. I think that there was a nice balance of footage with a variety of locations for the natural imagery. I really enjoyed experimenting with speed/duration for this piece as I sped up the drawing footage. As the video is only short, there wouldn't have been enough time to include all of it so I decided to speed it up so that the audience could see the drawing unfold. The last clip shows the final frame which is what I decided to draw. I thought this would be a good place to end the video so that there was some comparison between the drawn element and the natural element. In terms of sound design which was a huge requirement for this brief, I changed it quite a lot. After a viewing with Simon he told me that using a piano in the background was not as well thought through for the piece and didn't challenge the imagery in any way. Therefore I took out the piano and emphasised the natural sounds. These included birds tweeting and leaves crunching on the floor which I think gave the whole piece a much more natural, raw feel which is what I wanted to achieve. I also layered the sounds over each other, particularly towards the second half to bring the film to almost a more dramatic finish that made it seem slightly more intense. Overall I was pleased with the final film and think that the change in concept was definitely necessary to give it a bit more meaning rather than being so busy.