#movingimages2015

Due to other technical difficulties here’s the link to my groups video. Can you guess the emotion?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDRh1-W0m68&feature=youtu.be

Final Project Complete

Though I was unable to attend the critique, my team has filled me in on what the lecturers said about our film. The feedback was overwhelmingly positive. Ben saying that he enjoyed the original audio and felt like he was coming down off drugs. Pritika adding that the film felt professionally produced and had a lot of effort put in.

The more interesting feedback being that the film felt like coming down from a high. People interpret fear and anxiety differently. Some images would have been more disturbing to people than to others. However, the whole thing as a film is interpreted differently to each person. Some saying they felt it was a drug overdose, others saying it was a good representation of anxiety and disgust. This made me realize how ambiguous emotion is and how its dependant on upbringing, culture and experience.

The past week was well.. pretty stressful. We had to make some big changes to our original plan which we didn’t know if it’d make our moving image better or worse. In the group, it felt a little chaotic, but through the chaos we managed to sit down, think things through and follow a plan. Through this we managed to finish our project and I can’t say im not happy with the final product :3. 

Reflecting back to the beginning of this moving image project, I was afraid i wouldn’t do well because if you’ve followed my blog so far, i’m not too keen on my drawing skills xD. I thought it’d involve a lot of drawing or graphics and i’m really not good at expressing my creativity in drawings..I mean yeah, short sketches and doodles, but definitely not in flipbooks and animations. So I was off to a shaky start. When we got to the second part of the project, which was the proposal, I started to think more broadly after seeing some of the examples. I started getting ideas in ways where I can use my strengths. I definitely enjoyed the second part more than the first (lol).

Joining fingemo was definitely something im very glad i did. The ideas that some of the group members had were brilliant and they expressed it so effectively that everyone sort of knew how the general filming was going to turn out. Throughout this project, I learnt so much about how important plans and teamwork is. It’s really hard to work properly in a team, without knowing each other’s strengths. 

Reflecting over the other groups’ work, I was truly amazed by how abstract and how effectively they could portray different emotions. I feel like its opened up new ideas in my head that I wish I could’ve thought of beforehand. But I guess thats what experience just is, I wouldn’t know how to open my mind if I haven’t seen others going out and opening their minds up.