Final film: Absence

Evaluation

Overall, I think my film went well although I would change a lot of features. For example, if I had more time I would’ve filmed more for the middle section tor make it more uplifting and empowering. I would’ve also made the music more dramatic towards the end in order to make the viewer’s heart beat quicker. I would’ve also filmed on my macro lens if I had the chance to and filmed close up surroundings to show more than just me in the film and have more variety. I’d like to imagine that I linked the artist references quite well e.g. Duane Michals, KangHee Kim and Zhang Huan. I specifically like the ending scenes where I linked these artists shadowy effects to my own film and have a creepy element to it. As for the more colourful side of the film I was more inspired by Kim as their work if very bright and catches the viewer’s eye. I would’ve loved to experiment more with different movements of the camera in order to create nicer transitions although my hands were far too shaky to do this myself so I would most likely try to get other equipment to help to do this. Hopefully, I can do this next time as well as learn more about editing on Premiere Pro as I go. I learned a lo more already whilst editing this film e.g. the adjustment layer to edit all clips at the same time. I think that the overall film could’ve been executed better if I had more time so the story line could’ve show a bit better. I would’ve also edited the footage on the beat of the music if I had more footage but I couldn’t do this as I didn’t have enough clips to cuts up to do this effectively.