patelpr1

I had a few ideas to begin with. The first ones was to document peoples thoughts. I was going to get people to write down their thoughts, any thoughts and document the process of them going through a cycle of thoughts. My first idea was to get strangers to do it, but I realized I am definitely to chicken to ask anybody of the street their deepest and most uncensored thoughts. Then I though about using people in my life already, but I eventually abandoned the idea because I thought I might just not get the kind of honest and uncensored answers I was looking for from people I knew. I also wasn’t sure of my ability to alter and physical type in the video in after effects.
 * BRAINSTORMING**

My second idea was to take an object that has a significant effect on our environment, such as a water bottle and do a kind of “day in the life of” video. The reason I steered clear of this was because some of the phases of the water bottle I would want to show just weren’t feasible to get on video, such as the production and disposal phase. I thought I might still be able to lead the viewer to these thoughts and ideas through more ambiguous and abstract shots, but I just didn’t think it would have the same kind of effect.

The water bottle idea lead me to my final idea, which was to take he king of “day in the life of” idea and apply it to people and their general consumption. I really wanted to take everyday routine and show the impact it could have on our environment.

When I first because planning out the video part, I planned to transition between video and stop animation footage. I also originally planned to transition between people and so I had different shots of people with Polaroid’s and I would zoom into the Polaroid and transition between picture and video this way. After I started actually filming, I realized a minute and a half wasn’t exactly a whole lot of time and so I decided to stick with one person. The lack of time also meant that I cut out the stop animation part because it became too busy with the overlaying text, and so I would have to add more time to the video to fit both in.
 * PROCESS**

I used a lot of time re-mapping here, and since it was new to me I didn’t exactly have the best experience, but I think it worked in the end. This is something I’d like to improve on for project 2 as it plays a large part in project 2 as well. I would also like for the text to integrate with the video, but it became challenging for this video because the text goes through fairly quickly. Project 1 was a good learning experience and starting point for project 2. media type="custom" key="5529815"
 * FINAL**