I’ve come a very long way with this project. I can’t believe I am near completion. It is scary that I can’t really make sense of my work any more, its probably that I’ve seen it over and over again for so many hours trying to fix the tiny issues that were resulting because of adobe premiere.
I am glad that the little steps started a couple of months back have finally reached to the end of its journey, but who knew its just the beginning of a gate full of opportunities. In the first Iteration presented two weeks back, I presented something I was working along the lines of, which didn’t get as much appreciation as my previous sketches did. I was very nervous, because the deadline for final project was so close, and my project wasn’t appealing to others.
My Professor , Seth Keen, asked me to take up the project as something personal and link it to my culture, show my cultural background through my work. Initially I was so confused, I practically kept thinking for days and days of how to link my project to the place I belong from. I was upset to the extend that I spontaneously ended up meeting Seth on Bowen Street at RMIT and I was kind of ashamed of the fact that he felt that I was not very happy with the feedback.
I had a moment with Seth where he told me to incorporate my language and share the narration in the video in my mother tongue, the idea clicked me, and I had a sigh of relief, that night I sat to work on the narration, the one I previously had in mind, but to my own surprise, I ended up writing a poem. It totally fit with my theme, ideology and the way I wanted to stick to abstractism.
The second iteration was where I presented a draft of my final project and I was back on the track with a focus and direction, as the feedback was encouraging as well, Dr. Keen was happy with the choice of narrative style that was a prose and a poem by means of which I personalized the project and represented a piece of art that is a blend of who I am, what’s my life been life and the joy I take with color, as its rooted in me through my culture.
This is the final video, i edited the footage in adobe premiere pro, and is a mixture of spontaneous elements, such as slo-mo in the beginning, then time lapse later on. some natural shots and some remixes.It set well with the narration. I think I am ready for criticism to refine my work as much as I can for MINA 2015.
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