Evaluation

I changed the idea for my video many times. I had many ideas and wanted to do them all. Ultimately the idea of time was the one I finally decided on. I had many ideas on how I wanted my video to be but decided on having problems connecting to the concept of time.
Originally I wanted all of the problems to be different. They are all different, but they are mainly about having children. Judging by the questionnaire forms I can see that the audience also perceived the video as circling around babies and children.
I removed and added a lot of scenes during the filmmaking but tried to keep the same idea behind the video.
The effects in the video are exactly what I wanted, for example: the scene with the mother and child I wanted in fast motion then to suddenly go into slow motion. I felt as though this part of the video went well and the audience seemed to also enjoy it. This is one of my favourite parts of the video along with the earth melting scene and the boy looking at baby scan scene.
The scene with the boy looking at the scan was very emotional. The audience’s reactions to the video changed a lot when this scene came on.
This scene is very authentic as the actor in the video has been through that exact situation which is why I wanted him to do this scene. Everyone said that this was the most realistic scene.
The audience’s reaction differed from scene to scene and this is how I wanted my video to be. Each scene has a different atmosphere to it, which is created mostly from the backing music. I wanted to bring the audience to different emotions throughout the video.
Unfortunately I wasn’t able to exhibit my video in the places I originally planned.
I did however show the video twice and in two different spaces.
The first exhibition was in the recording studio at college. As it is a very small space I only had two people watching my video at a time. The room was dark and the audience was seated on comfy chairs.
Their reactions towards the video seemed uncomfortable. The small space, lighting and only one other person in the room set a very enclosed atmosphere, which I hope helped to enhance the concept of not being able to escape life’s problems.
During some parts of the video the audience laughed, smiled and was almost brought to a tear. This proved my video as successful as each persons problem in the video aimed to bring out different emotions in the audience.
The second exhibition had a more complex layout that judging from the questionnaires, the audience enjoyed. There were 8 people viewing the video for this exhibition. All of the seats were in a row, facing in the opposite direction to the seat next to them. The video was shown on one projector on one wall and again from another projector on the opposite wall. This meant that half of the audience faced the front and half faced the back. The video was placed almost at the same time as each other with only a second difference to create an echo of the voices and music.
The audience seemed to thoroughly enjoy the exhibition and the video. I was very happy with the answers to the questionnaires. I was pleased that I had an exhibition that had a more unique layout to it.
The room was dark, just like the first exhibition so that the video could be seen easier. It wasn’t to make the audience uncomfortable as I wanted to see the different reactions in the audience depending on the location and set up of a room. The room was large but had tables and chairs in it. The audience was sat quite closely together but not too much that they would be uncomfortable.
The video still made the audience smile, laugh and seem sad but the audience seemed more intrigued than in the first exhibition.



In conclusion to the exhibitions, the second showing proved to be more relaxed and the audience’s emotions towards certain scenes were easier to identify. The first showing was uncomfortable and not relaxed at all. This made the audience quite stiff and as though they weren’t allowed to show emotion towards the video.
The audience’s feedback was great and I am very pleased. Almost everyone understood the concept. The music was said to be “exquisite” The concept was “very followable” Overall the audience enjoyed it. One said “the way it was told was unique”
If I was to do it again I wouldn’t stress as much about the original idea. I spent a lot of time trying to come up with an idea that would be fun and unique and found that in the end I ended up with my original idea.

There are many videos that share certain similarities as my video, such as; Telling Lies by Simon Ellis, this has non diagetic speech much like mine and the characters all have a problem yet mine is shown through video than text. My video has a lot of stop frame animation like Muto a wall painted animation by Blu even though the drawings aren’t as in depth.
My video is not one continuous scene; instead it is many short scenes some in different locations and with different people. Even though none of the scenes are the same they are all portraying the same thing. Koyaanisqatsi also has many different scenes, all gathering around the same idea but all of different locations and people.

In conclusion overall, I am happy with all aspects of the video, post and pre production, exhibition and the video itself. There are things that I would change but nothing too significant.