Working Critique I
Sha Huang
Self-Evaluation
I had two project this semester, they both are video work,
the first project was shot by myself, and the second one is reproduce from a
Japanese movie director called Kitano Takeshi.
A 5 minutes documentary based video was my project I, I recorded
them as a bystander. As Music Underground New York already gave some
information about the heat station to see their performances, I thought I would
be able to find them at certain time. But that was not smooth as I imagined. The
focus of my videos was instrumental and vocal performers.
Watch again at my project I, I feel there are couple things I
need to pay attention to in the future works.
- · Audio recording. Even though noises can not be completely avoided, especially metro related topics, extra device and equipment is always supplement to make my work more complete.
- · Shots transition. Maybe think about transitions between full shot, medium close up will give my content more information.
- · Relationship. As my proposal was about the topic about performers and passengers, and my intention is the harmony of them. But I need to think about their relationship and perspective.
On the other hand, I feel like I spent time on my project,
even I did not make a quite good project on this. The time I spent looking for
the performers and edit my video, revise again and again, will be my precious
experience.
Learning from the first project, I needed to think about more
for my project II. Start from what is my violence for this project, I thought
behaviors no matter including body touch or not, involving physical force (including
weapon) intended to hurt, damage or kill someone or something. For my project
on this topic, I collected violence movies by Kitano Takeshi. Considering of
time, I focused on 5 movies of his. The first version I made is the moment
right before hitting each victim, the second one is scenes that hitting the
victim, and the last one is scenes that visual will fade into black leaving the
audience in audio only environment for couple of second. For these clips I made
them in sequence of violent method, punch, blunt, knife, and gun.
Listing some points I need to focus in the future.
· Point of view. I feel my point of
view of doing this video clips collection is sort of weak. I had a feeling
about violence topic, and also showing this with materials I collected. But I
think I could make my topic deeper and more detail.
· Audio only version. If the audio only
clip is showing by itself, would it still be understand by audience?
