PechaKucha

When going about this exercise, I decided to pick an audio first, since it must be unbroken, and then make clips that would fit as accurately as possible to the audio. I then challenged myself to pick another audio after fully editing the clips, in order to see how else my visuals could be interpreted. By doing things this way I had one edit that I was very proud of (this one) and another that I was less pleased with, because of the assignment and my personal restrictions, but still thought was a challenging and enjoyable experiment.

Voiceover

When creating this voice-over exercise, I came at it with the intention of inserting my own voice-over as minimally as possible. This was because I wanted to see how easily the tone, intentions, and plot of the story could be changed with a few simple words. In the same way that a sentence can have an entirely different meaning simply by changing the inflection of a single word (try emphasizing a different word each time and see how different each sentence is despite having the same words “I never said he did it”) Upon completing this I felt like I had created an entirely new narrative, with minimal actual change. The only caveat is that my audio quality while recording is suboptimal, which made it hard to smoothly insert the lines into the original dialogue.

Multiscreen

Before starting this multiscreen exercise I was apprehensive about finding a film used by my classmates that would meld well with Inception. But then I saw Spider-man far from home and correlated the holographic altering of reality, which seemed to bring dreams to reality, and knew what I had to do. Since Inception has fewer action scenes, in order to make things interesting I decided to have Spider-man be the focus. Having inception be the facilitator of the reality-warping we saw in Spider-man, allowed me to generate a narrative, where this was just another risky extraction job, which could possibly be set before the beginning of the inception film.

Video Essay Final

When I originally set out to make my video essay I knew I wanted to do some form of a character study, but I did not have a film to focus on. I then had the brilliant idea of moving to a higher level of abstraction and talking about the character archetypes across multiple films. Well, that brilliant idea was a bit too broad of a topic, so I went to refine this idea and honed in on the last film type I watched, (and watch most frequently) Superhero films. When looking at the character archetypes I was about to focus even closer on the trending origins of heroes, but I still wanted to have a broader appeal. So, I then went from individual superhero movies to team movies and the similarities in their team compositions