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Overall, I am quite pleased with our group film and the way it turned out. I think we did adequate planning before going out and taking the footage so that we were able to use the vast majority of what we got, and we weren’t missing any key clips.

We worked well together as a team, splitting responsibilities equally and all having a say in how the final video should be edited and just generally put together.

I think we stuck with our starter words of “risk, absurd, anti-art” well enough too. The element of risk was incorporated through going out and spray painting the bunker, essentially vandalism, and the actual medium of graffiti is well-known to be fairly anti-authority/establishment/tradition, which ties in with anti-art. The way we put the different clips together also links to the absurd, in my opinion, because there was no clear storyline or orderly sequence of images, therefore making it slightly nonsensical in the way that it could be interpreted differently by each individual who watches it.

I think if we were to do the project again, we could maybe have tried to have a wider variety of close up shots mixed in with the landscape ones, or maybe even experimenting with using black and white instead of colour. We kept the film as a whole fairly minimalist and simple, which worked well with what we had planned, but I wonder how it could have turned out if we had made it a bit more eclectic or flashy.

Personally I am happy with the final product, I think we included the three key aspects that inspired the project well, and we clearly also combined it with our own personal artistic styles.

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